Martrade Group: heavy-lift and project cargo promotional films

Company films for the Germany-based Martrade Group. On the ground and from the air with a drone, we filmed power transformers moving on multi-axle hydraulic trailers, the road journey of giant cylindrical equipment such as reactors and pressure vessels, wind turbine tower sections and loading onto ships in port. The featured film was released on 23 September 2024 and runs 3 minutes 16 seconds.

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What we did

Service
Drone filming and promotional films
Company
Martrade Group is a private logistics group headquartered in Germany. Its roots go back to the early 1970s, to a niche shipping business serving the steel industry; today it works in shipping, port and terminal operations, door-to-door logistics and project management
Heavy lift and project cargo
Transport of heavy and oversized loads for EPC (engineering, procurement and construction), energy and infrastructure projects. Regional offices include the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey; in Iraq it operates terminals at Umm Qasr and Khor Al Zubair
Loads in the film
Moving power transformers on multi-axle hydraulic modular trailers (SPMT and modular trailers); road transport of giant cylindrical equipment such as reactors and pressure vessels; wind turbine tower segments
Port operations
Loading onto ships in port: a ship loading operation in İzmir (2024) and a loading operation at Karasu Port
Projects
Site transport and heavy-lift transport for the BOTAŞ project (2023), the Powership project (2022), a heavy-lift operation on the Balıkesir–İzmir route
Shoot
Ground and aerial drone filming while the operation is underway
Output
Three promotional film versions (3 min 16 s, 3 min 38 s and 2 min 2 s) and project-based operation videos
Publishing
The featured film was published on YouTube on 23 September 2024, and the other two versions on 9 January 2024

Scale of the operation

In operations like these, single loads usually range from tens of tonnes to a few hundred. The weights below are typical ranges in the sector, not measurements of Martrade’s individual loads.

The weight range in which large power transformers are usually transported
100–400tonnes
Single-piece weights reached by reactors and pressure vessels
Hundredsof tonnes
Where Martrade’s roots lie: a shipping business serving the steel industry
1970s
Terminals operated in Iraq: Umm Qasr and Khor Al Zubair
2terminals

Loads of this weight are carried on multi-axle hydraulic trailers that spread the load per axle. The route is surveyed before transport; bridges and roads are adjusted if needed.

Other films on our channel

2 films

Other films from the same project published on the JASSİR YouTube channel. Each title opens the video on YouTube in a new tab.

  1. Martrade Introduction Film9 January 2024 · 3 min 38 s (YouTube, opens in a new tab)
  2. Martrade Introduction Film, short version9 January 2024 · 2 min 2 s (YouTube, opens in a new tab)

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