We’ve all become used to those long-load lorries bringing gigantic windturbine blades down the A-44 to Motril Port, but recently equally loaded lorries have brought in huge Hitachi Energy transformers down for export.

The company handling this is a local operator, Consignaciones y Estibas Motril (CE Motril), because the port’s ever expanding, logistics area is the hub for these electrical transformers. CE Motril occupies 500 sq/m of this logistics area

The transformers, which are built in the province of Córdoba, require wide-load transport owing to their size and weight. Large Power Transformers can range from eight to 15 metres in length and four to seven metres in width. As for height, they reach between five and seven metres 

Concerning the weight, it ranges between 100 tonnes and 400 tonnes, which is why they need specialised heavy-haul, multi-axle trailers.

In fact, it’s thanks to the excellent, direct access to the port from the A-44 autovia that led Hitachi Energy to decide upon Motril as the logistics platform for the maritime export for its transformers.

The first of these truly gargantuan units has already arrived and there will be at least five units more outed through Motril Port per annum.

Editorial comment: we rightly complain that the port is held back by a lack of a rail connection, but the fact is, in this case, you can’t move a transformer of this size by rail as it is too wide and would never get through a railway tunnel.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

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