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Height Challenges

Perkins was contacted by a repeat customer, a major logistics company and freight forwarder in Houston, TX requesting that we consider moving various sections of three (3) coker units to Houston, TX for export to a Middle Eastern oil refinery.

Configuration Challenges

One of Perkins nuclear transportation success stories to be chronicled is the highway transportation of a new reactor vessel closure head (RVCH at 189,200 lbs with shipping dimensions of 17' - 2" diameter by 13' - 10 height. Built by a US nuclear component facility in Mount Vernon, IN for a French nuclear manufacturer, Perkins was contracted to perform the RVCH's delivery to the nuclear power plan in Avila Beach, CA situated on the Pacific Ocean about half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles.