Presentation

1. Heavy and Abnormal Load Transport
Presenter
Rex Lewis

2. The Equipment SPMTs
Self Propelled Modular Trailers

3. Idea Summary
The Idea
To provide a service to the DP World and all its clients for heavy and
abnormal load transport through all the networks of ports and facilities. In
addition to this hire services for the equipment can be offered to the heavy
lift companies
Team
For a set of 100 axles and three power pack units the following would be
needed at a minimum:
Manager, Project engineer, 2x SPMT operators, SPMT Mechanic, HSES,
Autocad engineer for SPMT operations
Negative Points
Qualified and experienced staff are few
Availability and lead time for equipment can be up to 6 months
Transporting equipment from location to location for each project
Business Model
Heavy Lift Contracting

4. What are SPMTs
• A self-propelled modular transporter or sometimes self-propelled modular trailer
(SPMT) is a platform vehicle with a large array of wheels. SPMTs are used for transporting
massive objects such as large bridge sections, oil refining equipment, motors and other
objects that are too big or heavy for trucks. Trucks can however provide traction and
braking for the SPMTs on inclines and descents.
• SPMTs are used in many industry sectors worldwide such as the construction and oil
industries, in the shipyard and offshore industry, for road transportation, on plant
construction sites and even for moving oil platforms. In addition they been recently begun
to be used to replace bridge spans in the United States, Europe, Asia and more recently
Canada.
• A typical SPMT can have a grid of several dozen computer-controlled wheels, all
individually controllable, in order to evenly distribute weight and steer accurately. Each
individual wheel can swivel independently from the others to allow it to turn, move
sideways or even spin in place. Some SPMTs allow the wheels to telescope independently
of each other so that the load can be kept flat and evenly distributed while moving over
uneven terrain. As SPMTs often carry the world's heaviest loads on wheeled vehicles, they
are very slow, often moving at under one mile per hour while fully loaded. Some SPMTs
are controlled by a worker with a hand-held control panel, while others have a driver cabin.
In addition, multiple SPMTs can be combined to transport massive building-sized objects.

5. The Market for SPMTs
A self-propelled modular transporter is one of the safest and most efficient way for
transporting heavy and oversized loads.
The market for SPMT transport keeps on growing as construction methods have changed
most projects look to module construction off site by multiple contractors. The advantage of
this is that the full construction does not have to be done on site only joining up the pre built
modules. There are significant savings in manpower, construction costs and the time it takes
to complete the project.
Typical industries who use the services include:
Oil and gas
Power generation
Civil construction
Shipyards
Nuclear industries
Oilfield construction

6. Competition
• There already specialized companies in heavy lift who have this equipment such as Mammoet,
ALE, Al Jabber and Sarens.
• These heavy lift company's are seeing there biggest growth sector in the use of SPMT transport,
due to the volume of projects currently underway the company's are having to resort to x hiring
from each other to make up shortfalls in there fleets
• The competition are limited to there limited territories and logistic capabilities
• The heavy lift companies are limited to budgets for purchasing new equipment slowing there
growth.

7. Development plan
• DP World are in a unique position to take on the challenge of starting a heavy transport division
the advantages DP World have are:
• Over 65 terminals around the world
• A ready built portfolio of clients who use these services
• DP World already are in a position that most of the heavy lift items travel through ports
• DP World have the facilities and logistic support to assist the growth of the business
• DP World use these services themselves on a regular basis

8. Summary
• The above is only a very limited presentation of what I see as an additional service that could be
incorporated into the DP World portfolio.
• If there is sufficient interest from yourselves I can assist with making a full viability study to assess
if the investment and costing's would make it a valuable asset to DP World.
• My contact details are:
• Email: rexlewis@hotmail.com
• Telephone: 0509808765
• Rex Lewis