Hamburg – August 3, 2018 – The move of Hamburg’s Holsten Brewery is still keeping Gustav Seeland busy. The Hamburg-based heavy-duty logistics company is responsible for the planning and execution of the Brewery’s move. In mid June, work started to move the production facilities from Hamburg’s Altona district to a new site in the Hausbruch area of the city. In total, 24 brew kettles need to be disassembled and transported.
The vessels travel by road and water on special modes of transportation. As things stand, 14 of the huge kettles have been dismounted and stored at a shipyard to await onward transportation, with the remaining units waiting to be taken to their destination using special vehicles. The project represents a significant challenge for Gustav Seeland, as it comprises the dismantling and transportation of the kettles, as well as their storage at the new site.
In order to enable removal of the kettles—which measure up to 24 meters in length—the roof of the Brewery’s old site had to be opened. The kettles were then lifted up through the opening, and out of the building, using a 700-tonne crane. A further 100-tonne crane lifted them onto a lowboy specially developed by Gustav Seeland. The vessels were then accompanied by a police escort as they made their way through the sometimes narrow streets of Hamburg to Cruise Terminal Altona. Several traffic lights even had to be dismantled for the oversize vessels, which measure up to 6.40 meters in diameter. Having been unloaded onto a large pontoon boat at the docks, the brewing kettles were then taken across the River Elbe for temporary storage at a shipyard in the Port of Hamburg.
They will then leave the shipyard, once again traveling by pontoon boat to a logistics center, where the specialist cranes of Gustav Seeland will once more be deployed to load and unload the kettles. The onward transport of the 24 kettles to the new site will be carried out on demand following completion of the relevant construction phases. These journeys will also take place by road. Once they arrive in Hausbruch, the kettles will be reinstalled by Gustav Seeland specialists.
The disassembly and transportation of the kettles went smoothly, as planned, with all services performed professionally and punctually by Gustav Seeland. “Even for us as an experienced heavy-duty logistics company, this mammoth project is a big challenge. It has required an extraordinary degree of harmony between people and technology. What’s more, the roads in downtown Hamburg were not built for the transportation of such large consignments,” explains Johann Evers, CEO of Gustav Seeland.
Gustav Seeland plans to have completed the project by the end of February next year, by which time the new production facility is scheduled to be up and running.
About Gustav Seeland:
In its capacity as one of Germany’s largest providers of heavy goods logistics services, Gustav Seeland can offer the perfect solution for every task. The Hamburg-based company’s service spectrum encompasses the entire range of truck-mounted cranes, heavy haulage and specialized transport, industrial installations, and warehousing for heavy cargo. As a partner and founding member of BigMove AG, Gustav Seeland has a pan-European network at its disposal and has been certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and SCCP:2011.
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