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Wind Turbine Transportation
Wind technology has quickly outpaced logistics and transportation. Transporting wind machines has become a problem due to the excessive and unusual weight, length and shape of the components, which includes a tower, an in-ground base, blades and a turbine.
Turbines, which are typically shipped as three separate components and assembled on site, can weigh an average of about 65 tons. The space required to transport a typical turbine is about 13 times the volume of an ordinary tractor-trailer rig. Towers and bases are also exceptionally heavy. Blades are relatively lightweight but unusually long, some longer than 120 feet.
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Complete projects can occupy hundreds of truckloads, railcars and several ships. This results in scheduling and coordination issues between manufacturers and the various transportation companies that are required to work with. Due to the fact that each company works independently using only the information they have been given, coordination can often be nearly impossible to achieve.
