Oven Sections Cross North Sea

Van der Vlist U.K. recently coordinated the movement of an industrial oven from a factory in Yorkshire. This project involved moving three oven sections and three full trailer loads of ancillary equipment to San Adrian in northern Spain.

Each oven section measured each 10 meters long, three meters wide and three meters high. Van der Vlist used trucks from Zwaar Transport Twente, part of the Van der Vlist group. ZTT used 2-axle tractor units pulling 4-axle semi trailers to move each oven section.

The convoy of 3 trucks left Yorkshire and caught the overnight ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge, Belgium. The trucks continued by road and reached San Adrian six days later, a distance of 1,350 kilometers.

Once assembled the ovens will be used to make snack items that will be given away for free at the 2012 Olympics in London, Neil Keeping, Van der Vlist’s marketing manager, said.

Photo courtesy of Van der Vlist U.K.