Let Sterling Equipment handle your company’s waterborne material transportation needs.  We have an experienced management and operations team that can set up materials delivery to your worksite based on your project schedule and in quantities to maximize your build schedule.

Loading Beams

In 2010 on Cardi Corporation’s 160 Million-Dollar Sakonnet River Bridge project, Sterling Equipment designed and managed the entire logistics train for eighty-six precast beams delivered from manufacturing plant in Tennessee to the job site in Tiverton, RI.

 Load Planing

We needed the beams delivered by truck in a specific sequence to our load site in Wilmington, NC to conform to the load plan designed by our Naval Architect.  These beams weighed up to 103 tons and were up to eighty feet in length and we did not want to handle them multiple times.

Wilmington NC Yard

Once at the load site, we used our own barge mounted 4100 Ringer Crane to load the beams onto two of our ABS Load Line barges.

Underway

Using our 2400 horsepower tug the Jay Michael, we tandem towed the barges to the job site on the Sakonnet River in Tiverton, RI, over 800 miles away from the manufacturing plant in Tennessee. We not only saved Cardi Corporation the delivery costs associated with eighty-six trucks, but because we brought a large quantity by barge, we eliminated the scheduling of the truck deliveries as well as the need for a substantial laydown area. 

Equipment Transportation

 We can also handle your smaller jobs, mobilizing equipment and personnel to jobsites that do not have access by roadway.