Seven Seas Handles Heat Exchanger Transport

Seven Seas Shipping Co. completed the transport of two heavy heat exchangers for a Jordanian phosphate mining company’s sulfuric acid plant.

The 139-ton heat exchangers were loaded onto a chartered heavy-lift vessel in the Spanish port of Tarragona that then sailed for the Port of Aqaba in Jordan. Each unit measured 14.5 meters long, 7.03 meters wide and 8.34 meters tall. Two 200-ton-capacity dockside cranes were used with the vessel's onboard 320-ton-capacity cranes to discharge the exchangers and load them onto a pair of 12-axle trailers. The trucks drove 25 kilometers to the jobsite accompanied by police escort.

At the plant, two 200-ton-capacity cranes offloaded the exchangers and placed them on the foundation. The job was completed in three days, according to a statement from the Worldwide Project Consortium on behalf of Seven Seas Shipping.

Photo shows the discharge of a heat exchanger at the Port of Aqaba in Jordan. Seven Seas Shipping is a member to the WWPC in both Jordan and Iraq.