Bahrain's public and private sector institutions have won praise from Japan's Kobe Steel for safe and timely delivery of heavy lifts machinery to its pelletising plant expansion project site in Hidd.

Heavy lifts specialist company Abnormal Load Engineering Bahrain transported the oversized machinery and Alsharif International Freight Services organised all forwarding and other related work.

The equipment, weighing up to 186 tonnes, were moved across the Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Causeway from Mina Salman to Hidd over several days by special hydraulic low bed trailers.

Officials said the operations were carried out in close co-operation between Customs and Ports authorities, Roads Directorate, Bridge and Maintenance department, the ministries of Works, Interior and the Traffic Directorate.

Kobe Steel, the main contractor for the construction project, is awaiting more such equipment.

A 167-tonne shell kiln was successfully moved to the Gulf Industrial Investment Company project site as part of the operations.