Barnhart was charged with providing engineering, barge and roll off equipment to receive a steam turbine generator in Houston and a gas turbine in Savannah with the eventual destination of the Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma. At the Port of Houston, pictured above, the steam turbine was moved by a floating crane to a hopper barge for the trip to the Port of Catoosa.
The steam turbine is unloaded at the Port of Catoosa with Barnhart’s CC2600 heavy lift crane in superlift, hauled to the laydown area on a Goldhofer trailer and then loaded to the customer’s rail car with the CC2600. The final destination for both turbines was a power generating station in Oklahoma.
The gas turbine arrives at the Port of Catoosa from Savannah by barge. The gas turbine represented a milestone, as it was the first of its size to go into commercial operation in the United States. The team had to coordinate its arrival to coincide with a celebration planned by the local government and the client, which impacted the loading schedule.