Project Cargo

With the recent expansion of the Bulk Terminal site and introduction of new equipment, Solent Stevedores is able to offer a comprehensive level of service to non bulk customers.

With a wide range of equipment and a fully trained, experienced and flexible work force, Solent Stevedores is well placed to meet the demands of all types of project or general cargo requirements.

Some examples of recent activity are:

Loading Catamarans

Solent Stevedores successfully loaded two large Catarmarans previously used to transport passengers between Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight which were subsequently sold to a Russian company operating passenger services on the Black Sea.
 
The Catarmarans which had been laid up in Southampton Water for several months, were sailed over from Marchwood, and loaded direct from water to the vessel “OXYL Fantasy“ which was berthed in the King George V Dock.

Loading of Stone Crushing Equipment

Working in close co-operation with local Port Agent, Denholm Barwil, Solent Stevedores loaded 18x40 tonne Terex  excavators onto the deck of ‘Atlantic Regine’
 
The machinery, built in Scotland, was safely loaded and secured ready for despatch to the port of Bata in Equatorial Guinea

Loading of CAT Heavy Equipment

Most of Solent Stevedores cargo handling work is undertaken within the confines of the 20 acre bulk terminal. However the company’s experienced staff were called upon to load three pre used CAT manufactured earth moving machines and 4 pieces of rock crushing machinery, with a total weight of 221 tonnes, at berth 41 in the Eastern Docks using the heavy lift cranes aboard the UAL Angola

Brewery VATS

Beer drinkers in Lithuania were no doubt raising their glasses to toast Solent Stevedores, as the company loaded a cargo of monster brewing vats to the MV Moana in the King George Dock. The vats, which came from a redundant brewery in Reading, were so large that specialist transport had to deliver them in under the plumb of the Port’s 100 tonne Harbour Mobile Crane from where they were lifted and stowed safely on board.

Timber

In February 2009, 1,500 tonnes of timber was discharged, repacked and reloaded to the deck of the Russian cargo vessel ‘Sinegorsk’ after the cargo had been dislodged in a force 9 gale in the English Channel.

Steel Coils

Following the breakdown of a vessel carrying yachts, Solent Stevedores were appointed to transfer 9,000 tonnes of specialised steel coil from the hold of the distressed vessel to the hold of a replacement berthed alongside.

Yachts

Using high capacity Port Harbour mobile cranes, Solent Stevedores regularly transfer yachts and other pleasure craft from vessel deck to quay/water or vice-versa.

Similar cargoes have included hovercraft and passenger craft for the Red Funnel Ferry Company.

Explosives

In June 2009, Solent Stevedores was contracted to load a cargo of military equipment as part of a UK armament contract.

Pipes

In July 2009, a consignment of 77 large water pipes, destined for a project in north Hampshire was discharged by Solent Stevedores within the tight schedules required by the customer.

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