Opening of heavy-load centre
September 2, 2015 | Markus Lackner
In cooperation with the Port of Vienna, Felbermayr Transport and Lifting Technology began work on the Port of Vienna’s extension in 2014. Its completion in early 2015 helps both the Port of Vienna and Felbermayr itself handling the rising demand for the handling of components of increasing weight in an even better way.
“We are happy to run this location together with the Port of Vienna,” Felbermayr Holding’s head Horst Felbermayr comments on these trendsetting collaborations. For Felbermayr Transport and Lifting Technology’s managing director Wolfgang Schellerer, its connection to both motorway and railway are of particular importance: “This move is a consistent continuation of our philosophy of multi-modal heavy load transports. Thus, we can now also handle and store components weighing several hundreds of tons in the east of Austria.” A fact that also perfectly fits in with the strategic goals of the Port of Vienna: Fritz Lehr, the economic director of the Port of Vienna is pleased to say that “the perfectly connected area 4,000 square metres in size and the highly modern equipment provided by the high & heavy specialists from Felbermayr allow particularly heavy lifting and thus also the handling of super-sized loads.”
The media watched the first lift at the new heavy-load centre with great interest. For at a weight of 382 tons and a length of more than 24 metres, the column to be handled presented no routine job – even for Felbermayr Transport and Lifting Technology’s men with all their experience with heavy loads. A crawler crane with a kerb weight of 780 tons was used to lift the component on an 18-axle flat bed lorry. Subsequently, the steel giant was transported to OMV’s refinery by means of a technically elaborate transport and there placed on its foundations using a tower lift, which took several days.
