INCOTEC CARGO has arranged unique loading operation of Reactor with its weight of 340 tons on board of a barge.

Transportation of the item (length more than 11 meters, width and height 5.5 meters) has been carried out ex works Izhorskiye Zavody (Kolpino, Saint Petersburg) to the place of loading on barge Ust-Slavyanka, where a special berth on the Neva River has been built. 
Inland trucking was arranged using Self-Propelled Modular Transporters Goldhofer specially designed for heavyweight cargo transportation. A schedule has been stated and approved with Oktyabrskaya Railway allowed passing the railway lines at nighttime. The speed throughout the whole way was 5-10 km/h.
Upon delivery to berth on the Neva River Reactor was loaded by Ro-Ro method on board of barge (type 943) and shipped by inland waterways to the place of discharge - berth on the Don River.  Upon discharge completion, which is supposed to be made by lifting frame, Reactor will be delivered to the job site of Novovoronezh NPP-2 by means of Self-Propelled Modular Trasporters. It is planned to complete delivery in the second decade of June.
Construction of Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant – 2 has begun 20th June 2007 within the frames of Development Programme of Nuclear Energy Industrial Complex of Russia in 2007-2012 and prospectively up to year 2015. New power units are being built using the first in Russia serial reactor of the AES-2006 type. Safety standards of these power units are in full compliance with the international requirements. It is planned to build the Plant in record-breaking time: the first power unit is supposed to be set in operation in 2012, the second – 2013. This construction is unique by the fact the for the last 15 years there were no any power units in Russia having been set in operation from “zero” cycle.

Reference note. In the Russian market of heavyweight and oversized cargo transportation INCOTEC CARGO is one of leading companies.  The Company is a long-term partner of Atomstroyexport JSC and delivers the equipment for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Station in India, Bushehr Nuclear Power Station in Iran, Tianwan Nuclear Power Station in China.  INCOTEC CARGO arranged hundreds unique heavyweight and oversized shipments such as: equipment transportation for “Sea Launch” programme; Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC, petrochemical companies OJSC “Surgutneftegas”, Kirishinefteorgsintez, "Salavatnefteorgsintez", OJSC ТАNЕCО; and many others.