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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...