Transport & Handling Engineering Group

The Logistics Backbone of CERN coordinating thousands
of complex transport operations across CERN’s surface
and underground complex.

Our Transport and Handling Engineering (THE) Group provides transport and handling services for the technical infrastructure of CERN, accelerators and experiments. This includes the design, the procurement, the installation, the commissioning, the operation, the maintenance, the consolidation and the decommissioning of standard industrial and custom-built transport and handling equipment.


Precision Engineering for Heavy Lifting

Design, integration and feasibility studies for complex transport and handling operations. 



Maintenance Management

Life cycle management of an important equipment park composed of lifts, cranes, hoists, industrial trucks, road trucks, trailers, mobile working platforms and customised tunnel transport and handling equipment.

Heavy Transport Handling

Preparation and coordination of transport and handling operations for accelerators and experiments and CERN users in general. 



Logistics and Design for Future Projects

Logistics studies, simulations and conceptual design of custom-built transport and handling equipment.

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