Breakbulk shipment from Norway to the United Arab Emirates

How does one manage the shipment of cargo corresponding to 25 African elephants in terms of weight? Well, Greencarrier Freight Services has managed several heavy lift projects over the years. We know the importance of special shipping knowledge, careful handling and exact planning. This is why helping one of our customers with a heavy break bulk shipment from Norway to the United Arab Emirates was easy as pie.

Breakbulk shipment of cable reels and lifting gear

In June 2018, Greencarrier Freight Services in Denmark was assigned to coordinate and plan the shipment of break bulk cargo from Halden in Norway to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for our customer Hyundai Heavy Industries.

The cargo was, without any exaggeration, a heavy job! The cargo included five huge cable reels as well as lifting gear. Each cable reel was nearly six and a half meters in diameter and seven meters high with a total weight of over 110 ton. The lifting gear included a more than four-meter long spreader beam which added an extra ton to the shipment.

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