WMATA Metrorail Kawasaki 7000 series railcars @ Fort Totten Station Arrival
Although rail travel is one of the most effective means of passenger transport, particularly in densely populated areas around New York City, the movement of cars that are not on track is a difficult task Each of the cars, known as the series M-8, is nearly 26 meters long, 3 to 2 meters wide, and weigh between 65 and 65 July 2 tons They are large, unsightly and often difficult to get on board a ship.
Normally, with a bulk ship, the cars must be taken up by crane and loaded on the ship, said Ken Takeda, Deputy Director, Contract Administration and Marketing, Kawasaki Rail Car Trains are very heavy, and pick them up in a ocean region, the possibility of wind gusts affecting the loading and unloading operations.
With Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics WWL, however, cars were the looted site and loaded onto RTB rubber tire bogies a process much easier and safer, then simply pulled the pin on the RoRo ships roll-off WWL WWL of Michiya Seki explained the whole process.
The cars were first loaded on barges at the Kawasaki plant in Japan and brought to the port of Kobe, he said that the bodies of wagons and bogies were transported separately We have taken responsibility for them once they arrived in Kobe, taking them by barge crane process much easier than loading up on a big ship, and put them directly on the RTB Then, once the ship arrived in Baltimore, we have fed to the railhead.
The whole process was very safe and very fast, said Anthony Clarizio, M-8 Project Manager for Kawasaki Rail Car style Because of WWL RoRo shipping, it also means that the cars were stored under the bridge, which provided more security and more protection for them the benefit of the RoRo system for us was clear; the experience is great.
One advantage of using WWL is that all operations are so well coordinated and smooth, Takeda added s well controlled due to the roll-on, the method of roll-off loading and unloading, and because the time of arrival of the ship in the harbor is almost exactly the same time each month with ships bulk, if it rains or snows hard, sometimes charging is postponed, and the loading of a train by crane is essentially an activity all day with WWL, loading on RTB was done before the ship arrived in port, so once the ship is loading only takes a few hours.
This is not the first time for Kawasaki Rail Car and its Japanese parent company, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to work with WWL The first was a project that carries the railway cars in Taiwan in 1992; Since then, some 1000 Kawasaki cars were worn by WWL.
I have had a long relationship with WWL, since I was already stationed in Kobe, Takeda said that I have dealt with many carriers, but with WWL we had fewer problems and lower levels of damage in actually, about 10 some years ago, we shipped some 400 to 500 underground car bodies from Japan to the uS, and I had no problems with the damage it was just perfect.
Kawasaki in brief Based in Kobe, Japan, Kawasaki Rail Car in Kawasaki Heavy Industries Company rolling stock is a division of the leading manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. The company produces a wide range of rolling stock, subway cars and vehicles light rail wagons, locomotives, and even the famous Shinkansen high-speed trains in Japan, it is increasingly provide rolling stock for international customers and has a production facility abroad in Yonkers, New York and Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
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