Heavy transport in the Amazon with MacZ Heavy Lift and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES
   
We have an experienced team and high capacity machines such as reinforced barges for the transport of project cargo and GOLDHOFER axle trailers with a capacity of up to 45 tons per axle. Since 2011, the company Heavy Lift and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES have been working in partnership in the transport of indivisible cargo/project cargo for the electric power sector in the northern region of Brazil.
The first and largest project carried out jointly in the area of super-heavy indivisible loads for the energy sector was the transportation of transformers with a unit weight of up to 280 tons for hydroelectric plants in Porto Velho in the state of Rondônia in the years 2011 to 2013.
Subsequently, HEAVY LIFT and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES also carried out the transport of superheavy indivisible loads with unit weights up to 257 tons to the Mauá III Thermoelectric Power Plant in Manaus in the State of Amazonas, from 2013 to 2016.
In 2018, HEAVY LIFT and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES have carried out 17 large ferry trips and hundreds of road trips transporting loads with unit weights up to 343 tons (transformers) to the Substation of the transmission lines of BELO MONTE HYDRELETRIC POWER PLANT.
At the beginning of 2019, it was the turn of HEAVY LIFT and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES to contribute to the generation of energy in Colombia by transporting part of a Thermoelectric Power Plant on the way from Manaus/AM to Leticia in Colombia, and in the same year have been in charge of the loading transport for another 9 thermoelectric plants in several cities in the interior of the Amazonas State, such as Carauari, Jutaí, São Paulo de Olivença, Santo Antonio do Içá, Tocantins, Uarini, Japurá.
In 2020 and 2021, Heavy Lift and NAVEGAÇÃO PRATES carried out the transport of pieces with a unit weight of up to 16 tons for thermoelectric plants in the states of Amazonas and Roraima (Jaguatirica II thermoelectric plant, Silves thermoelectric plant in Campo de Azulão, thermoelectric plant Rorainópolis, Cantá Thermoelectric Power Plant, Bonfim Thermoelectric Power Plant). Dozens of transformers with a unit weight of up to 265 tons were also transported for various power transmission line projects in the northern region of Brazil.