Port of Sacramento Manager Mike Luken has been hearing people talk all summer about the unusual shipments arriving at his docks. The bottom (40-foot section) of a wind mill tower- weighing in at approximately 68 metric tons - is unloaded from a ship at the Port of Sacramento Thursday, August 7, 2008. The Port of Sacramento is receiving a massive shipment of wind generator parts destined for a wind farm near Travis Air Force Base. Nineteen of the 75 wind generators have been delivered and the rest are on the way. They will be trucked to their destination and assembled. Each base comes in three pieces and is made and shipped from Korea. The three blades for each machine are made in Germany. Thursday, August 7, 2008. ...
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Port of Sacramento Manager Mike Luken has been hearing people talk all summer about the unusual shipments arriving at his docks. The bottom (40-foot section) of a wind mill tower- weighing in at approximately 68 metric tons - is unloaded from a ship at the Port of Sacramento Thursday, August 7, 2008. The Port of Sacramento is receiving a massive shipment of wind generator parts destined for a wind farm near Travis Air Force Base. Nineteen of the 75 wind generators have been delivered and the rest are on the way. They will be trucked to their destination and assembled. Each base comes in three pieces and is made and shipped from Korea. The three blades for each machine are made in Germany. Thursday, August 7, 2008. ...