 Wilhelmsen Ships Service moves 1500HP Rig half way across the worldAug. 9, 2010 - In a dramatic demonstration of the global networking capabilities of Wilhelmsen Ships Service the company recently arranged transportation of an oil rig from Edmonton Canada, through the United States to Kuwait. The land based oil rig consisted of 3,675 cubic metres of cargo with the heaviest unit being 52 tons.
The rig was transported on behalf of our customer, Burgan Company, which specialises in well drilling, trading and maintenance. Burgan is the leading company in Kuwait for oil well exploration, drilling and work-over.
"The challenge was crating and dispatching 45 truck-loads of cargo across 3,800 km from Canada to Houston Port, USA in time to connect with a heavy carrier vessel bound for Kuwait." says Wilhelmsen Ships Service Assistant Sales Manager, Arun Ravindran.
All the cargo was delivered to Houston Port within 16 days, despite temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius and road bans due to snow and ice formation. Thereafter the cargo was kept in a holding yard until the arrival of vessel MV BBC Kusan.
On arrival in Kuwait, Wilhelmsen Ships Service also secured nomination of the vessel for husbandry services and handled vessel berthing, discharge and cargo storage in Shuwaikh Port.
2010-08-09
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Please see Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) company electronic office For further information, contact:
Ole Jakob Ytterdal
Head of Communications
Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Tel: +47 67 58 40 00
Mobile: +47 97 08 83 62
ole.j.ytterdal@wilhelmsen.com
Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, a Wilh. Wilhelmsen group company. It has the world’s largest maritime services network, with 4,500 marine professionals servicing 2,200 ports in 125 countries.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service supplies safety products and services, Unitor products, Unicool refrigerants, Unitor and Nalfleet marine chemicals, maritime logistics and ships agency to the maritime industry. Last year the company made product deliveries to 25,000 vessels and handled 70, 000 port calls.
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