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typically giant-sized industrial equipment turns waste or other materials into useable products. At Feeco, shipping one product such as a rotary ore drum to a destination like a mine in Africa is a sight to behold. ¶ First the drum – which can be more than 15 feet in diameter and 45 feet in length, has to be lifted onto a tractor trailer rig by a couple of construction cranes. The rig may be more than 200 feet long – and heavy duty enough to safely transport the drum by road to the Port of Milwaukee. There, the massive drum may be loaded onto a barge to make its way down the Mississippi River system to the Port of Houston, where it will be loaded onto the deck of a cargo ship for ocean transport.
How companies like Feeco,
he shipping of manufactured goods to an overseas location is often a fairly routine scene of pallets moving onto trucks.
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