BMS HELPS TOWARDS A WORLD BASED ON GREEN ENERGY

Back in the year 1900 the transatlantic shipping enterprise Hamburg America Line built a large ocean liner terminal at Cuxhaven to the northwest of Germany. For almost three decades it served as the major departure point for German and European emigrants to not least the United States.

Conveniently situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River estuary, Cuxhaven is today the location for transhipment, warehousing, and logistics companies as well as an offshore base port for the wind power industry. And that brings us to the city’s relation to the BMS Group as Cuxhaven recently was the base for two 103 metres truck-mounted lifts from the BMS Lift Division.

From April to July 2018 the BMS vehicles were involved in helping with the completion of jackets for offshore wind power installations for Ørsted A/S – a Danish energy company with a vision of creating a world that runs entirely on green energy.

The job was a matter of some urgency, and it wastherefore not possible to wait for the typically six weeks it takes to get thenecessary permits for driving larger vehicles in Germany. Instead, the BMS LiftDivision chose to sail the two truck-mounted lifts from the Danish port cityEsbjerg to Immingham just north of Grimsby in eastern England. From here they weretransported by sea to Cuxhaven. Typically, there is quite a lot of planning,documentation, and security control involved in any given BMS task, but in thiscase, there were a number of extra things that had to fall into place beforework could begin in Germany.

When the job in Cuxhaven was completed, the vehicleswere sailed back to England, commissioned for a task at the Palace ofWestminster in London.