Bringing it all home
22 Dec 2014
The ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Itinerary is tested a second time in 2014, including the maritime leg of the journey to the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ site. In the picture, the 33-metre-long customized trailer and its mock load of concrete blocks (800 tonnes) is transported by barge along the Canal de Caronte, which connects the Mediterranean and the inland sea Etang de Berre.
On 1 April the test convoy begins its journey in the Mediterranean town of Fos-sur-Mer. If all goes according to plan it will reach the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ site in four nights, after travelling along the 104-kilometres of the Itinerary with a full escort of police officers, technical personnel and support vehicles.
The second ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Itinerary test convoy reaches its destination, the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ platform, in the small hours of 8 April just in time for an early breakfast. This important milestone concludes the technical and logistical verification of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Itinerary and opens the way to the transport of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ components.
The first of four transformers for ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ's steady state electrical network arrives safely in Fos-sur-Mer on 19 December, after nearly 30 days at sea aboard the CMA CGM IVANHOE. The US-procured component had left Ulsan, Korea on 16 November. The final leg of its journey—transport to the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ site along the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Itinerary—will begin on 12 January 2015.
