As part of the Russian-Cuban railway modernization program, Modul has delivered project cargo, railway motorcars, to Cuba. The motorcars were equipped with transshipping cranes and designed for railway emergency recovery operations.
Special-purpose machinery required special approach to their transportation. Motorcars arrived in St. Petersburg from Tikhoretsk (Krasnodar Region) on intermodal railcars dismantled. To optimize handling operations, avoid extra costs and ensure high-quality, safe and secure transportation by sea it was decided to assemble the equipment at the port of loading.
The motorcars were assembled in cooperation with the manufacturer’s specialists on the territory of PetroLesPort and loaded directly into the vessel hold using crane equipment. Modul’s in-house team of technologists designed and implemented crane suspension and metal racks to enable easy handling and transportation.
This technology made it possible to safely unload the motorcars in the port of destination, and to put them directly onto rail track. It took no more than four months to implement the entire project, including engineering of technical solutions, the railway and sea legs of transportation, assembly of equipment, and handling operations.
One motorcar measures 12,960 х 3,150 х 5,250 mm and weighs about 30 tons. 4 motorcars were delivered in two shipments.
All in all, since 2016 the company has transported over 700 units of freight rolling stock for the needs of foreign railways.