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SCRA Move of the Year award, in 2016,
was for transportation of a 1,300-ton,
103-by-48-by-122-foot "cold box" module
for a natural gas liquefaction plant that
Bechtel was building in Australia.
The cold box was fabricated at New
Iberia, a shallow-draft port. Berard used
an 80-axle, self-propelled mobile trans-
porter to move the box onto a fl at-deck
barge that was towed to Port Fourchon,
Louisiana, an offshore oil service port.
There, the box was rolled directly onto a
heavy-lift ship for the transit to Australia.
In moving an oversize load, it's best if a
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