To Optara

COORDINADORA completed the well-known OPTARA Modular Project after 14 months of hard work from our Offshore & modular team, a service for TOTAL refinery in Belgium and one of the most interesting challenges for our company since we where responsible for the technical development and the logistical management in a project that demanded engineering innovation and coordination.

COORDINADORA was the awarded Forwarding Company for the complete develop of all the transport operations, taking the scope, cost and risk for a door to door service. It consisted of 30 modules, with maximun weights of 1.000 t, which were entirely manufactured in Tarragona, Spain, and transported to Total´s complex located in the port area of Antwerp, Belgium.

There were a total of 110.00 freight tones shared in 5 impressive Shipments: two of them using geared vessels, and other three resorting to Ro-Ro vessels. One of the crucial part of these shipments was the seafastening operations: around 400 t of conformed steel structures were necessary, more than 10 km of welding length on board with the subsequent inspection, cutting and cleaning once finished each transport and over 4.000 hrs. of transport engineering spent in the design of the seafastening and checking all technical details supplied by Ship Owners and Heavy Haulers.

On top of that, about 800 hrs/person of port operations, including transport, liftings, load-outs and hotworks were used during the whole project.