After two years of planning Global Transport was contracted to transport and ship twenty rail carriages from Ipswich in Queensland Australia, to Matarani Port in Southern Peru.
The first job for Global was to arrange for the carriages to have blocks fitted to the underside of the bogies to insure the wheels were clear of the ground and that when shipped the bearings in the bogies did not hammer, four special lifting frames were designed and fabricated as these Carriages needed special lifting frames for changing the bogies unfortunately they were not allowed to leave Australia so two new sets were fabricated once this was completed the Carriages were moved by platform trailers across Brisbane to Lyttelton so they could be fumigated and prepared for shipping.
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