Original news was published on 19 June, 2014

Tuscor Lloyds has handled the transport of a 58-ton cable reel from Newcastle, UK, to Manila in the Philippines by way of South Korea.

Tuscor Lloyds collected the steel wire rope reel from the manufacturer’s facility in Newcastle and transported the heavy cargo by road to the Port of Felixstowe, a distance of about 300 miles, the UK-based forwarder said in a statement.

The project cargo team at Tuscor Lloyds opted to ship the cargo from Felixstowe rather than the port of Newcastle because this reduced transit time and provided a more direct route to Busan and onward to the Philippines.

The cargo was delivered quayside where two flatrack containers had already been lifted and loaded onto the container vessel. Onsite surveyors agreed to the lift plan put forward by the stevedores and used a heavy-lift crane fitted with the appropriate gear to lift the breakbulk cargo. The cable reel was lowered onto the bed of flatrack containers which had been fitted with heavy dunnage spanning the complete width of the two flat racks in order to spread the weight and increase friction.

Securing was carried out by the port stevedores using wooden chocks (nailed in position), 2-ton webbing lashings on each corner and 4-ton webbing lashings to the arms of the reel. The cargo was unloaded at the Port of Busan with onsite cranes fitted with specialized gear and secured onto low-loader trucks.

The reel was hauled to the Port of Masan. From Masan the cargo was loaded onto another container vessel using two more flatrack containers and again secured using wooden chocks and webbing lashings and ratchet straps before being shipped to the Port of Manila.


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