2. Project 1:
Marathon Refinery Expansion – Garyville, Louisiana
Total Number of Heavy Lifts: 30
Ranging from 18 mt to 110 mt
Total Revenue Tons of Cargo: 16,897
Project Time Frame: First Quarter 2009
Total Barge Moves: 4
Load Port: Port of Altamira, Mexico
3. Pre-planning meetings with fabrication yards in Mexico to ensure that the cargo was
being fabricated to the specifications needed to make an ocean voyage via barge.
4. Survey of the Port of Altamira and the roads entering the facility to specify routes to
be taken as the cargo is shipped from fabrication yards to port for loading onto barges.
5. Preparing of the barges in Louisiana including the barge layouts, loading and pre-
welding of elevated stow components and materials used for final tiedown of cargo in
Mexico.
6. Transporting of cargo from fabrication yards to the laydown yard at the Port of
Altamira in proximity to the wharf identified for loading the barges.
7. Lugo Marine managed the Ro-Ro operations with the Port of Altamira, the stevedores,
heavy hauling companies, marine surveyors and the tug/barge crew.
8. Cargo being loaded on barges as outlined in the ballast and stow plans engineered by
Lugo Marine.
9. Heavy lifts loaded , securing inspected and approved by underwriting surveyor, sail
away certificate issued and barge cleared for transport to Garyville, Louisiana for off
loading.
10. Project 2:
Power Plant Expansion Project
Total Number of Heavy Lifts: 6
Total Revenue Tons of Cargo: 1,263
Project Time Frame: First Quarter 2009
Total Barge Moves: 1
Load Port: Port of Houston
11. Performing barge layout, loading dunnage with the assistance of the stevedoring
company and shifting the barge along side the vessel for loading of heavy lifts with the
ship’s gear.
12. Heavy lifts discharged from the number three starboard hatch, were loaded on barge
as outlined in the stow plan designed by Lugo Marine.
13. Vessel discharging to barge continued the next day for heavy lifts stowed in the
number three portside lower hold.
14. Final welding and securing of all heavy lifts and departure of the tug/barge from
the Port of Houston.
15. Project 3:
Reactor Vessel Barge Tiedown
Total Number of Heavy Lifts: 1 @ 1,000 mt
Project Time Frame: Third Quarter 2009
Total Barge Moves: 1
Load Port: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana
16. Reactor arrived via heavy lift steamship vessel and discharged directly to
barge using ship’s gear.
17. Reactor vessel was positioned on the elevated stow equipment as per Lugo Marine
engineering and stow plan calculations .
18. Final welding of steel tiedown devices and wirerope lashing of the reactor vessel to the
barge for transport up the Mississippi River to Chicago.
19. For additional information, please contact:
- Robert Lugo, Jr.
Managing Director
Email: jrlugo@lugointernational.com
- Norbert Lugo
Managing Director – Operations & Engineering
Email: nlugo@lugointernational.com
-Stacy Browning
Director of International Transportation
Email: stacy@lugointernational.com
