DB Schenker transports 141 metric tons cylinder from Berlin to Canada 27 June 2014

Experts from Germany and Canada spent three months planning the transport

DB Schenker Logistics has transported a massive waste heat boiler weighing 141 metric tons from Berlin to Canada using the world's largest cargo plane, an inland waterway vessel and a heavy-load vehicle. The heavy piece from the Borsig company began its journey from Borsig's port to Edmonton in Canada under the direction of DB Schenker.

DB Schenker experts from Germany and Canada spent three months planning the heavy-weight transport in minute detail.

The 16-metre long cooler was first loaded onto an inland waterway vessel in Borsig's port on June 20 using a mobile crane weighing 1,000 metric tons. The barge then transported the piece to Aken on the Elbe River.

From there, DB Schenker used a crane to transship the waste heat boiler onto a heavy-load transport vehicle on 23 of June. This vehicle transported the cargo to the Leipzig/Halle Airport with one pulling and one pushing truck.

On 25 June, DB Schenker began loading the boiler into the six-engine Antonov AN 225, the world's largest cargo plane. Karpeles Flight Services, the DB Schenker specialists for chartering of airplanes, handled the charter arrangements. The cylinder was pulled into the plane using a ramp and special chain hoists.

Overnight, the machine flew across Iceland to Canada, where DB Schenker's Canadian national company will handle further transport to a fertiliser factory near Edmonton. There the component will be used to cool process gas from approximately 1,000 degrees to 500 degrees and in turn create high-pressure steam. The process gas will then be further refined and ultimately leave the factory as artificial fertiliser.