PROJECT OF TRANSPORTATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WIND FARM IN STAVROPOL REGION

Our company has taken part in the implementation of the project of construction of the Kochubeevskaya Wind Farm in the Stavropol region, the largest wind park in Russia. The construction of a wind farm is run by NovaWind, a new division of Rosatom.

In this project, RTL Group of Companies was responsible for organizing multimodal transportation of equipment for the construction of a wind park. All cargo packages in this project were split into separate components, one consisting of 84 sets of oversized and heavy lift equipment (OSHL).

To implement the multimodal scheme of transportation of this component as part of a single vessel shipment, our specialists took the following steps:

1) Consolidation of cargo coming by road from manufacturers in Germany, in the port of Bremen.

2) Chartering a river-sea class vessel for sea transportation as the shipload accumulated in the port territory.

3) Loading equipment on the vessel according to the developed plan of cargo placement and fastening on board.

4) Unloading of the power equipment at the port of destination - Azov, Russia. Unloading operations were performed in two one-time flows:

• heavy lift cargo, generators, were unloaded from the vessel by two car cranes, in the mode of paired work, to specialized vehicles which transported them to the temporary storage, where the other two cranes unloaded OSHL positions from vehicles to the site (also in the mode of paired operation);
• all other cargo packages were unloaded from the vessel to the berth using a gantry crane.

All processes were carried out in accordance with a pre-developed Method Statement.

5) Road transportation to the final port of destination, Nevinnomyssk, involving low-bed semi-trailers and modular trailers.

For the transportation of oversized equipment, we obtained special permits in advance. As for heavy positions, due to significant load on bridge structures, we had to develop a special project with the calculation of the bearing capacity of engineering structures along the route.

Wind farms will soon become one of the landmarks of the Stavropol region. The size of the three massive plants installed recently impresses the locals, their height reaches 150 meters. The Kochubeevsky district wind farm that launches this year will become Russia’s largest and more than 80 plants are to be put into operation by the end of 2020.