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The best-laid plans…

Staffordshire-based specialist shipping company Robert Wynn and Sons recently transported a rotor, and its replacement, between France and the Netherlands for the Paluel Nuclear Power Station, on behalf of forwarders, Ziegler Group. The heavy lift ro/ro barge Terra Marique loaded the 236-tonne piece - on a 72-tonne trailer — at Fécamp for onward transport to Rotterdam. Once alongside in Rotterdam, the rotor was lifted off using a shoreside crane and  transferred direct ... [+]

Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job, barge operators tell government

Robert Wynn & Sons and other speakers from the inland waterway sector called for more investment and joined-up thinking for inland waterways at a House of Commons reception on 22 July.   They called on the Government to take steps to improve inland waterway operations and infrastructure to handle the increasing ... [+]

Fenlanders thwart green delivery efforts

Heavy transport company Robert Wynn & Sons is complaining that longstanding plans to deliver electricity transmission components to a site in Cambridgeshire by water have been blocked by an intransigent local council. It says that a scheme to use its Government-funded heavy lift barge, the Terra Marique to move pieces for ... [+]

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