Special Transport, Gertjan Houtman. DVD, approx 70 minutes. ISBN 978-1-908397-09-6. Now available from Old Pond at £16.95 inc VAT.
Among the Dutch transport companies there are several with a world-wide reputation for moving heavy and outsized loads. This programme features the work of three of them.
We see the Sarens group transporting the largest sections of a newly built cutter-suction dredger as well as a port container crane.
Mammoet’s skill with SPMTs is demonstrated when they move three heavy Smit transformers over water, road and use 2-stack work to cross a railway. We also see them place two viaducts, one of which is over a hundred metres long.
Saan’s special load is a Hercules plane being taken from its museum to painting facilities in Lelystad. This involved lifts to ‘hop’ over roads.
Finally there are some trailer transports, one with a houseboat and one with a steel vessel for a refinery.
Gertjan Houtman is a Dutch journalist and film-maker who specialises in heavy transport. His company is called Videoprofessionals.
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