deugro announced that it transported with dteq Transport Engineering Solutions (dteq), eight pin piles from  Bilbao, Spain to  Vlissingen, in the Netherlands as part of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind    farm project.  

The freight forwarder noted that the 77-meter-long pin piles, with a weight of over 270 metric tons each and a diameter of 2.4 meters, are the largest piles ever manufactured by Haizea Bilbao. 

"As part of the project, deugro compiled complex coordination of operations with shore cranes, local agents and the multi-purpose (MPP) vessel MV BBC LIVORNO. dteq, a company of the deugro group, contributed with custom-designed transport saddles and finite element 3D analysis of the cargo prior to operations," deugro said.

Meanwhile, it noted that one of the challenges during the project execution was the limited crane capacity at the required outreach—this made two rotations of the vessel necessary.

deugro said the first pile was loaded on the starboard side, then the vessel was rotated to be loaded on the port side.