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Noske puts last piece in windfarm jigsaw

Noske Logistics Group has delivered the final component to the Macarthur Wind Farm site in western Victoria.

After 14 months of working on the project, its wind energy logistics division has brought a total of 1,120 deliveries to the farm which is located 16km east of Macarthur. Noske was awarded the land transport, shipping and storage scopes for all tower and turbine components of the project during the second quarter of 2011.

October 1, 2012

Noske Logistics Group has delivered the final component to the Macarthur Wind Farm site in western Victoria.

After 14 months of working on the project, its wind energy logistics division has brought a total of 1,120 deliveries to the farm, which is located 16km east of Macarthur.

Noske was awarded the land transport, shipping and storage scopes for all tower and turbine components of the project during the second quarter of 2011.

Its final delivery was made last week after transporting 140 wind turbines with the help of 34 people.

Together with freight forwarding specialist Blue Water Shipping, Noske coordinated the loading and unloading of eight ships from Denmark to the Port of Portland in Victoria.

It has also moved goods on eight prime movers and eight dimensional trailers.

Noske Executive Director Tony Noske says the group’s main focus was safety and compliance.

“Our staff is instilled with our zero accident culture from day one,” Noske says.

“We are proud to announce that upon completion of the transport scope for Macarthur wind farm we have successfully delivered 1,120 large over-dimensional components, travelled 210,000 kilometres under escort and over 57,000 man hours with zero lost time injuries, zero incidents and zero component damage.”

The three tower sections are about 30 metres long and four metres wide.

The three rotor blades are each
56 metres long and are nearly five metres wide, with the turbine being 14 metres long and weighing 125,000 kg.

“This was a huge task with every single component being handled numerous times and with 210,000 kilometres under escort over narrow rural roads there was a real possibility of major incidents,” Noske says.

“We are pleased to say that the whole task went faultlessly with not a single incident being reported.”

The $1 billion project is the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere and will consist of 140 wind turbines that will generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 220,000 average Victorian households a year, with greenhouse gas emission savings over 1.7 million tonnes per year, its developer, AGL Energy, says.

The project is due for completion early next year.

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