deugro said it successfully moved 120,000 freight tons of petrochemical equipment on behalf of its client Hyundai Engineering, from South Korea and China to Police, Poland for the EGAT project. 

In a statement, deugro said the project encompassed a considerable amount of oversized and heavy lift (OSHL) units, including an 889-metric-ton and 96-meter-long propylene-propane splitter, five 613.98-metric-ton and over 72-meter-long propylene storage bullets, and a 596-metric-ton reactor.

The preparation of the project took nearly one year.

deugro said the biggest and heaviest cargo units were loaded on two heavy lift vessels at the Ports of Gunsan and Masan, South Korea and at the Port of Zhangjiagang, China.

"In total 7,156 metric tons were loaded in four days and started their voyage to the Port of Morski in Poland. Since many of the cargo units were not stackable, a customized stowage concept was developed to match the vessel’s stowage capacities," the freight forwarder said.

It added that deugro Korea and dteq supervised the discharge operations at the Port of Morski in Poland.

"To ensure a safe movement, extensive traffic management measures were prepared in advance over a period of one year. These included the construction of new roads, a temporary 650-metric-ton bridge and a new site entrance, the modification of a building along the route and several road widening. Streetlamps had to be replaced by foldable types, electric railway wires disassembled, local 110-kilovolt power lines shut down and steam pipes and medium-voltage wires moved underground," said Eun-Ji Baek, project manager deugro (Korea) Co., Ltd.