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Petrochemical Vessels - [Click for more info] Hydraulic Gantries
Wax Filtration Units - [Click for more info] Strand Jacking
Research Vessel - [Click for more info]  
Cold Box - [Click for more info]  
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Petrochemical Vessels - Various abnormally sizes vessels were transported using the modular trailer system. With a mere re-configuration of the axles and addition of custom-built items, such as decks and turntables, each load could be carried with ease. Vessels included a 55 metre long argon column

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Wax Filtration Units - Using twenty axle set-up, ten axles side by side, Vanguard transported two wax filtration units in modular sections, needed for a gas to liquids plant. The eight metre wide, 14 metre long sections, 18 in total, varied in height and weight, with the highest being 10,5 metres and the heaviest being 85 tons.

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Research Vessel - The modular Goldhofer trailer system was used to move a large research vessel from a shipbuilder’s warehouse to the dock. The ship weighed almost 600t and measures 16.5m high, 10.2m wide and 43.2m long.

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Cold Box - Utilising its modular trailer system, configured in two sets of 10-axles, Vanguard transported a 140t, 55m long cold box along a 2400km route from Namibia to Zambia.
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Gautrain - Locomotives and carriages, measuring 18 – 21m and weighing 47t, are being transported to site on Vanguard’s modular trailer complete with a specially designed and custom-built extension deck with rails.
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Transformers - Locomotives and carriages, measuring 18 – 21m and weighing 47t, are being transported to site on Vanguard’s modular trailer complete with a specially designed and custom-built extension deck with rails.
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