WCA Projects member, Libava Trans Holding, Latvia, Moves 4 Giant Flu Pipes 1500 kms by Road from Estonia to Chernobyl Radiation Plant, Ukraine
Libava Trans Holding SIA Heavy and Oversize transport division successfully completed an extremely complicated project for a customer in July/August 2016 from door Harjumaa, Estonia up to a factory door in Chernobyl АЕС.  This project was especially challenging as the cargo size required that Libiva spend nearly 5 weeks to obtain all of the special permissions and various road permits from the authorities in each country - Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine.   For this movement, special ‘super low-bed’ platforms were used with 0.35m ground clearance and a double extension which allows the total length of 24 meters. Libiva carried out the project in two separate trips, each with one convoy of two units, including two Private Escort cars from Libava Trans Holding for the entire route of this journey. Leading the convoy, our technical team drove well-ahead of the cargo to confirm advance clearance and to solve any problems on the road. Libiva’s team had to arrange for dismantling of many road signs and obstacles on the route to Chernobyl due to the oversized dims of the silos. Transit time was approximately 4-5 days including crossing the borders and waiting for Police escorts in each country. Additionally, the escort vehicles and police had to intervene with all oncoming traffic, requiring the traffic to stop on the side of the road to allow the cargo to pass.  After the first two trucks were offloaded in Chernobyl they drove back to Estonia to load last two silos and to complete the project within required the time frame. The total route from start to finish per trip was nearly 1500km of pure road transport. Conclusion: Our customer was fully satisfied with the organization and operation of this project cargo by Libava Trans Holding. We are sure to receive further work from this client and look forward to sharing future cases.