5K Logistics has successfully managed the transport of a new engineered combination of a process gas boiler and its companion steam drum as a completed “piggyback” unit. These new units were manufactured by Deltak Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota for their customer Selas Processing Fluid Corporation in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
The units were delivered via a combination rail/truck to the Linde Process Plants facilities at the CITGO refinery in Romeoville, Illinois, and the Marc West refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. The piggyback designed units were delivered with an actual height of 17’7” and an actual weight of 141,300 lbs. For the Romeoville facility and a height of 14’2” and actual weight of 108,000 lbs. to the Corpus Christie facility.
5K Logistics devised and executed the transportation plan in cooperation with the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern railroads to move these two units together by rail from Deltak in Plymouth, Minnesota. The rail shipments were routed on the Union Pacific Railroad and BN Railroad systems to a nearby rail spur and offloaded to a Goldhofer truck to complete the shipment to the jobsite.
Typically these units are shipped separately due to the excessive height restrictions. These shipments were the largest design component ever shipped piggyback style by Selas Fluid Processing which resulted in a major cost savings for transport and field installation related expenditures.
“Shipping these units as a piggyback unit saved the customer a considerable amount of money as well as increased the installation efficiency at the job site”, says Paul McGrath, President 5K Logistics. 5-K Logistics, Selas Fluid Processing, Linde Process Plants, Deltak Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad, Burlington Northern Railroad, CN Railroad and Imperial Crane Corporation worked together for the past eight months in developing the transport plan for delivery to both of the sites. According to Mr. McGrath this truly was a total team transport effort and was executed with precision!
5K Logistics is an international project logistics provider and a GPLN member headquartered in Warminster, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania with other offices and warehouses in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
