Finnish-based Nurminen Logistics announced that it took delivery of Europe’s largest heated transport container. This move is most likely to strengthen the company’s range of heavy and special transport equipment.
The container, sitting atop a specially built transportation trailer, is approximately 17 meters long, three meters in width and height. Designed for transporting specially-coated rolls for paper machines, the container’s internal temperature is adjustable, depending on the requirements of each paper roll. The massive container can house even the largest 120-metric ton rolls.
The heater for the container is run on fuel oil, and the electricity it needs is drawn from the lorry, a ferry’s electrical grid or the normal electrical grid. Nurminen says the equipment is operable on its own batteries for up to two days.
The heated transport container can be used with several of Nurminen Logistics’ special transport trailers. It is basically transferred from one trailer to another with the use of hydraulic suspensions of the trailers – therefore, no separate cranes are necessary despite the size of the container. Forkor Oy made the heated transport container in Forssa, Finland
The heated transport container’s first task will be to transport six 71-metric ton rolls of Metso Paper, Inc. from their factory in Jyväskylä, Finland, to the new paper mill of a Metso customer in Germany. For this transportation, a 10-axle modular platform will be the base for the container, with a 4-axle tractor unit.
The company has 35 trailers in use, while the carrying capacity of the largest modular platform is 450 metric tons. Nurminen Logistics also has 14 trucks.
