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Eurosib-Logistics Completes Shipping Equipment to Sangtuda Hydro Power Plant |
| PPG Russia, Eurosib-Logistics is wrapping up a year-and-a-half-long project having moved power generation equipment from the Russian manufacturer Power Machines to the Sangtuda-1 hydro power plant in Tajikistan. “We have been working with the Power Machines for the past ten years,” said Rinat Nemishev, Head of Project Department at Eurosib-Logistics. “This project has been the largest in the history of our cooperation to date.” Started in June 2007 and scheduled for completion later in February 2009, the whole operation will have required 380 wagon trips, seven heavy-duty trailer journeys and 12 cargo air flights. Project cargo made up a significant part of the total freight volume. |
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| The equipment was picked up at the two Power Machines’ plants in St. Petersburg: Elektrocila and the Leningradsky Metallichesky zavod, and from a sub-contractor Tyazhmash premises in the city of Syzran, in the Samara region of Russia. The cargo was then transported across five countries – Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Complicated logistics required exacting control over the shipment progress and the delivery schedules in order to ensure a timely start of the plant’s operations. Eurosib-Logistics also advised the client on customs procedures when dispatching the cargo and took care of its customs clearance upon arrival. |
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| Rinat Nemishev said: “This complicated project was so successful thanks to a very good level of coordination between all of the partners: Eurosib-Logistics, Power Machines and Sangtuda plant. The construction of this hydro power plant is a major national priority for Tajikistan, and in order to speed up its launch the project logistics and the equipment delivery schedules had sometimes to be changed at the last moment. That was the case with transporting from Syzran a bearing measuring 3.5 meter in diameter and weighing 10 tons. When it was already loaded onto a rail platform we were told that it was urgently needed at the future plant. We had only three days in order to file a new freight customs declaration, repackage the cargo to make it fit into the aircraft body (the aircraft type was IL-76, the only one used on regular flights to Dushanbe), bring it to the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region, carry out a high-precision loading operation with a mere 5-millimetre clearance between the cargo and the aircraft walls. Twelve hours after the take-off the bearing was at the point of destination, eagerly awaited by the construction workers». |
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| Sangtuda-1 hydro power plant, with generating capacity of 670 MWt, is located on the river Vakhsh, 200 kilometers to the south from Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Its construction was started in 1987, but was later suspended due to lack of financing. In February 2006 OAO “Sangtudinskaya GES-1” was set up, a joint venture between the Russian Inter RAO EES and Tajikistan’s Ministry of Energy, with the aim of bringing the project to its end. Inter RAO EES holds 75% of the stock of ОАО “Sangtudinskaya GES-1”, and the Republic of Tajikistan is the owner of the remaining 25% of the stock. |
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