Original news was published on 3 September, 2014

Van der Vlist coordinated the shipment of a large piece for a drilling rig from the Netherlands to China.

The access bridge weighed about 90 tons and measured 35.5 meters long, 7 meters wide and 9 meters high. Transport by road was ruled out undefined the cargo was simply too big. Instead, Van der Vlist arranged for a barge to carry the cargo to the Port of Antwerp for transhipment to the far east, the Dutch logistics firm said in a statement.

However, a direct route along the waterway from Rotterdam was still not possible because the load was too wide. Instead, an alternate route was chosen along wider waterways. Van der Vlist hired two mobile cranes to load the barge.

Upon its arrival at Antwerp, the access bridge was lifted from the barge by the ship’s two cranes for the voyage to Shanghai. Extra smaller pieces from the bridge were shipped in containers from Rotterdam to join the bridge.

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