Intermarine delivers world's highest capacity vacuum column.After months of complex planning, an Intermarine chartered heavy-lift vessel recently delivered a key component for a mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. refinery complex under construction in Jose, Venezuela. The 1,000-metric-ton column is the highest capacity vacuum column in the world. To transport it, Intermarine developed the heaviest refinery vessel ever erected in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Literally months of engineering work were required to determine the support, seafastening and handling requirements. In all, 95 tons of steel were consumed in just fabricating the grillages on which the unit rested. The Ro/Ro loading of the vacuum column required 40 axle axle Pin or shaft on or with which wheels revolve; with fixed wheels, one of the basic simple machines for amplifying force. Combined with the wheel, in its earliest form it was probably used for raising weights or water buckets from wells. lines of self-propelled modular trailers (SPMTs). Once discharged in Guanta, Venezuela, the vacuum column required 48 axle lines of SPMTs to roll it directly onto the barge Sophie J, a 30-by-100-foot offshore deck barge operated by an Intermarine affiliate. Finally, positioning the vacuum column required the use of three heavy lift cranes; a 1,200-ton crane and an 800-ton crane to lift the head of the column in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem , while a 600-ton crane was used for the tailing operation. Intermarine is a provider of worldwide ocean transport for breakbulk specialized project and heavy-lift cargoes 1. Any single cargo lift, weighing over 5 long tons, and to be handled aboard ship. 2. In Marine Corps usage, individual units of cargo that exceed 800 pounds in weight or 100 cubic feet in volume. . For more information, visit www.intermarineusa.com. |
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