
TANK TRANSPORT
Two liquid storage tanks were loaded onto road transport in Southampton as they prepared for the final leg of their journey from the US to Ireland. The tanks, weighing just over 11 tonnes each, arrived on a K Line vessel from Galveston in Texas and were lifted using...

Transforming power…
A careful tandem lift by two high capacity mobile cranes was used to transfer this 86 tonnes transformer from mafi to road transport after it arrived from the Far East on a Hoegh Autoliners vessel. The load was taken by road, bound for eventual delivery to a power...

An important link in the chain…
With the offshore oil and gas industry under increasing spotlight, we were tasked in helping with the shipment of this pneumatic reel for umbilicals after it was imported into the UK from China via a container vessel discharging in Southampton. Our expertise was...

Automatic Lift…
This 35 tonne remote controlled gantry was shipped from Southampton to Australia via Hoegh Autoliners’ vessel Hoegh New York, having first been carefully offloaded from road transport and then manoeuvred on board. With a 70-tonne load capacity, the gantries are used...

CHRISTMAS COME EARLY
This 53 tonnes piece of oil well equipment, known as a Christmas tree, was headed out to Singapore on a Hoegh Autoliners vessel from Southampton but first it needed a heavy lift transfer from road transport to mafi. Offshore Christmas trees control the flow of a well...

Sorted…
This Trommel mining equipment weighing 75 tonnes was carefully lifted from road transport, loaded and secured on a mafi trailer prior to being shipped on a K Line vessel heading for the Far East via Southampton. The machine, built by MDS International in Ireland, is...

Restoring a tank to its former glory…
This fascinating, vintage Cromwell tank, built in 1943, required special handling when it arrived in the Port of Southampton by road from Buckinghamshire. After laying in a forest in Finland for many years, the tank was restored by specialists Track and Wheel...

Digging Deep…..
More than a dozen heavyweight pieces of a Liebherr R9150 mine excavating machine, including two 50-tonne tracks, arrived in Southampton by road. SCH used its heavy lift expertise to transfer the pieces, totalling over 300 tonnes, from road transport to mafis before...

Keeping Offshore Operations Moving….
SCH handles all sorts of project cargo using ship’s gear or mobile cranes – like these two ten-tonne offshore baskets which are used for transferring tools and equipment on to offshore platforms. After being delivered to Southampton by road, they were loaded to the...

We don’t just handle ships…….
Gently does it for this 19 tonne fire engine cab chassis that was brought in on a mafi trailer from the United States by K Line and then handled to road transport using one of SCH’s Reachstackers, before it was sent on its way up country to specialist fire engine...
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GEARING UP FOR A BUSY CRUISE SEASON
SCH has embarked on a busy cruise season in Southampton with the arrival of Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Silhouette. The first of some 50 cruise calls to be handled by SCH in Southampton saw the Ponant Cruises icebreaker vessel Le Commandant Charcot make her maiden...
PROMISING START TO BMW MOTORCYCLE SERIES FOR SCH MOTORPREP TEAM
SCH Motoprep’s team competing in this season’s series of BMW F900R Cup motorcycle races made a successful start in the first race of the summer at Silverstone. SCH Motorprep technical manager Rob Smith has handed over his S1000RR race bike to son Christian who now has...