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Nurminen Logistics acquires Europe’s largest heated transport container
The Nurminen Logistics' range of special and heavy transport equipment became even more comprehensive than before when the company took delivery of Europe’s largest heated transport container in November 2009.
This container, which is installed atop a special transport trailer, is 17 metres long, three metres wide and three metres high. The container is designed for transporting specially coated rolls for paper machine, and its internal temperature can be adjusted with a thermostat, according to the requirements of each type of roll. Due to its massive size, the container can accommodate even the largest 120-tonne rolls.
The electrical power needed by the heating unit, which runs on fuel oil, can be drawn from the lorry, a ferry’s electrical system or the normal electrical grid. The equipment can also operate on its own batteries for up to two days.
The new heated transport container can be used with several Nurminen Logistics' special transport trailers. Transferring the container from one trailer to another is accomplished using the hydraulic suspensions of the trailers, so no separate cranes are necessary despite the size of the container. Altogether Nurminen Logistics has 35 of its own trailers in use; the carrying capacity of the largest modular platform is 450 tonnes. The company has 14 trucks of its own.
The first tasks for the heated transport container are the transports of six 71-tonne rolls manufactured by Metso Paper, Inc. from their factory in Jyväskylä, Finland, to the new paper mill of a Metso customer in Germany. For these movements, a 10-axle modular platform will be used as the base for the container, with a 4-axle tractor unit.
The heated transport container was manufactured by Fokor Oy domiciled in Forssa, Finland.
More information about the new container and other spercial and heavy transport services: Vice President Hannu Vuorinen, tel. +358 400 640 624.
