J Kumar Launches Mumbai Metro’s 1st Pier Cap Using Straddle Carrier

J Kumar Infraprojects this morning erected the first pier cap using its new 29.5 meter tall straddle carrier for Mumbai Metro’s 15.18 km Line-6 (Pink Line) which’ll connect Swami Samarth Nagar in Lokhandwala Complex with Vikhroli through 13 elevated stations.

J Kumar is responsible for constructing civil packages BC-01R1 (IIT Powai – Vikhroli, 4.771 km) and BC-03 (Swami Samarth Nagar – Shyam Nagar, 6.079 km), and this straddle carrier has exclusively been deployed on BC-03, on the western-end of the line.

This is the first straddle carrier to be used in India for a metro project and has a maximum capacity of lifting 155 tons.

This isn’t the first pier cap of the line though. Both BC-01R1 and BC-03 this year moved on to the U-girder launching stage. BC-03’s 1st U-girder was launched in May and BC-01R1’s was launched in October. Package BC-02R’s first pier cap was just launched by MBZ-EIIL JV in November.

As shared earlier on TMRG, this type of construction equipment is typically used at shipping ports and large construction yards, and J Kumar procured one from DLT Engineering in China for specifically hauling different types of girders through Mumbai’s streets.

Here’s some information on its value and shipping from Panjiva, a market intelligence website:

• Goods Described: MANUFACTURING SUPPLY OF STRADDLE CARRIER GANTRY DLT155
• (CKD) Item Quantity: 1.0
• Item Unit Value (INR): 5,15,15,100.0
• Item Assessment Value (INR): 5,15,15,100.0
• Duty on Item (INR): 14287700.0
• Arrival Date: 2020-02-19
• Consignee: J Kumar Infraprojects
• Port of Unlanding: Mumbai (ex Bombay) (IN)
• Shipment Origin: China
• Value of Goods: USD 719,304.81

Images of when it was being assembled in July can be viewed here and a really cool recent timelapse of it moving through the streets can be viewed here.

Here’s a snap of it shot in October when load testing was conducted:

For more updates, check out the Mumbai section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG