Vestas starts rail transport of wind blades in Europe

Sustainability

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Vestas, the Danish manufacturer of large-scale wind turbines, has developed a method to transport 55-meter-long blades by rail in Europe. The “blade-by-train” transports in Europe, provided by SNCF Geodis, consist of nine blades for Vestas’ 3-megawatt wind turbines, which are made at a factory in Lauchhammer, Germany, and transported to the Danish port of Esbjerg. The trains measure nearly 700 meters long. Vestas cited several logistics and environmental benefits ...

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