deugro moved 280,000 freight tons of petrochemical equipment from over 35 worldwide seaports and airports to the construction site on Long Son Island near Vũng Tàu, Vietnam on behalf of TPSK — a consortium of TechnipFMC and SK Engineering & Construction.

The project freight forwarder said nearly 178,300 freight tons of the most critical oversized and heavy lift (OSHL) components were delivered by 155 breakbulk shipments on 55 chartered heavy lift vessels.

It added that the overall project encompassed over 1,400 breakbulk, container and air freight shipments — with nearly 37,000 packages and a total weight of almost 68,510 metric tons — from Singapore, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, South Korea, Thailand, the UK and the USA to Phu My, Vietnam.

deugro Singapore, the project control tower, worked closely with a total of 16 deugro country organizations around the globe to handle the complexity of the project.

"To ensure the safe ocean transportation of the huge cargo packages across more than 213,000 nautical miles, deugro and its partners produced bespoke method statements, transport arrangement drawings, detailed motion analyses, ballasting and mooring calculations, ramp arrangements, lifting and rigging calculations, as well as stowage and sea fastening designs," deugro said.

The 24 most challenging OSHL components — with single weights of up to 778 metric tons, lengths of nearly 100 meters, and a total volume of over 48,000 cubic meters — were delivered from Kuantan, Malaysia to Long Son, Vũng Tàu, Vietnam despite last-minute schedule changes during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and strict mandates.