Toll Project Services (TPS) has recently provided logistical support for a number of pipeline projects, including Delta’s Colongara Interconnector pipeline project and the Sydney desalination pipeline.

A division of Toll Group, the company is Australia’s largest specialised logistics provider. The capabilities of TPS include pipeline logistics operations where it undertakes transportation of line pipe via road, rail and sea. TPS also undertakes stockpile operations and all necessary work to connect the various modes of transport.

In February 2008, TPS commenced logistic activities for a pipeline that will connect the Newcastle Interconnector to a new gas turbine generator located at the Delta Electricity Power Station near Munmorah in New South Wales.

Approximately 6,500 tonnes of bare line pipe was unloaded from a vessel and stockpiled while it awaited coating in Port Kembla. Once coating operations were completed, TPS designed a concurrent operation to deliver bare pipe into Kembla Grange for coating and coated pipe up to Munmorah to meet construction requirements.

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A separate transport operation was used to dismantle the stockpile in Port Kembla, load and deliver the bare pipe into Kembla Grange at a rate necessary to meet the coating production requirements. Once coated, separate but concurrent transport operations were required to deliver the coated pipe to Munmorah. On arrival near Munmorah, TPS unloaded the coated pipe and again placed the pipe into a stockpile awaiting construction activities to take place. Delivery of the pipe has now been completed, with construction currently in progress.

In late June 2008, TPS commenced logistic activities for a pipeline that will eventually lay across Botany Bay for the Sydney desalination plant. Over 9,000 tonnes of 56 inch (1422 mm) outside diameter bare pipe was unloaded from a vessel for transport to a stockpile at Port Kembla.

Given the size of the pipe TPS was engaged to design, construct and trial specialised dunnage for the transport of multiple pipes from the stockpile to Kembla Grange for coating in order to maximise transport efficiency. This dunnage could then be used to return the coated pipe to a stockpile for further concrete coating.

Aside from works undertaken in the oil, gas and water pipeline infrastructure sector, TPS also operates in several other project freight spheres with capabilities including transport and logistics management activities and studies, ship and barge chartering for ocean transportation, ultra-heavy transport solutions, equipment erection, jacking and skating operations as well as dangerous and sensitive cargoes.

No project is out of reach for TPS, with the company recently taking on a range of operations including receipt, stockpiling and transport of steel pipes for the Blackwattle Bay development in Sydney; complete logistical packages for several power stations in Western Australia; and, a shipment of gas turbine generating equipment from New Zealand to Turkey.