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Sandwiches and shells on their way to ºÚÁÏÉçapp

30 Nov 2015

The Industrial Hedland, with 460 tonnes of ºÚÁÏÉçapp cryostat segments on board, reached Marseille's industrial harbour at Fos-sur-Mer on the morning of 24 November.

The ship had left Hazira Port in India on Friday 6 November carrying tier 1 of the cryostat base, including six sandwich segments (60° base sections) and six main shell segments.

Unloading operations began at Fos a few hours after the ship docked. Once the loads have been transferred by barge across the inland sea Étang de Berre, the last leg of the long journey will begin—a three-night, 100-kilometre ride along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Itinerary.

The six 19-tonne main shell segments will be delivered to the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site by way of "regular" exceptional transport—that is, along regular roads. The large 60° base sections (10 metres long, 8.10 metres wide, 50 tonnes each) will be required to travel along the dedicated ºÚÁÏÉçapp Itinerary in two separate convoys of three trailers.

The first of these convoys is scheduled to reach the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site in the early hours of Thursday 10 December, the second on 17 December.

Manufactured by Larsen & Toubro Ltd under contract by ºÚÁÏÉçapp India, these components have a strong symbolic significance: they will be the first ºÚÁÏÉçapp machine components to reach the site.

It is 7:00 a.m. on Monday 24 November and the cargo carrying the first cryostat segments has just docked at Fos-sur-Mer, France.
One of the 50-tonne, 10-metre "sandwich" segments is prepared for unloading.
Every component is equipped with a shock detector.
The large 60° cryostat base sections will travel to the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site in two convoys of three trailers.
Each of the six main shell segments weighs 19 tonnes.
The cryostat segments will cross an inland sea by barge before travelling 104 kilometres along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Itinerary to the site. Even before the components are unloaded, the people responsible for the convoys are at work...
The "Industrial Hedland" carried 460 tonnes of ºÚÁÏÉçapp machine components in its hold. The journey from India lasted a little less than three weeks.
Unloading operations began at Fos a few hours after the ship docked on 24 November. © Emmanuel Bonici
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