Concord
ON THE GROUND
Concord Namibia played a key role in the successful completion of the Neckartal Dam project in Namibia.
Namibia CEO, Francois Smith. “The an abnormal vehicle and travelling your route, and if something happens
crane travelled by road — the journey with a crane on public roads requires to the crane, support needs to be
to the border was about 600km — at a route permit. The cost of the permit available very quickly to adhere to the
about 70km/h on a smooth road, but is determined by the distance you timeframe associated with the permit. If
speed had to be reduced on downhills wish to travel. Furthermore, in general, you miss the window, you have to apply
(due to the size of the machine), and abnormal vehicles may only travel on for a new permit. Aside from the crane,
climbing passes was obviously slower as public roads during daylight hours three additional trucks were required to
well. We budgeted for two days travel and no travelling is permitted over transport the accessories for the crane.
by road to the border for the crane,” weekends. Thus, to ensure compliance explains Smith. with the permit conditions and to is always a challenge with such big
ensure that you complete your journey machines. There is a tremendous
transporting challenge is to obtain route before the permit expires (normally amount of paperwork involved:
permits. A mobile crane is considered three days), you have to be very sure of police clearances, SARS compliance
Smith says that the biggest
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Smith says that crossing a border
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