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Heavy going for chemicals 8

Several very heavy units destined for a Russianchemicals factory were loaded onto a barge inthe inland port in the Austrian capital Vienna inAugust. ITJ correspondent Josef Müller reports onan adventurous undertaking.

A ship on the highways 11

When a ship leaves the water and takes to theroad instead, it arouses the interest of projectlogisticians. Such a special transport requiringextraordinary measures took place in Finlandrecently.

Bulky machines to China 13

The SME France Cargo International recentlyorganised the haulage of agricultural machineryfrom the South of France to the Far East. It thusshowed that huge tasks of this type cannot onlybe mastered by multinational logistics firms.

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9 A Gottwald crane to the Horn of AfricaFrom Turkey to Somalia

11 Five yachts in a weekGBS is on course

12 Bertling and Antonov AirlinesTwo titans team up

13 Membership in CLN and XLProjectsG-Solutions networking successfully

15 GP Günter Papenburg and DHLHeavy equipment to Ghana

17 US railway likes it heavyBNSF still expanding

17 Cement-making machineryFrom Europe to Canada

19 Alexander Global LogisticsSeveral new projects

19 The PPG networkA new member in Mexico

21 Not on inland waterways for onceA barge in an unusual role

21 US corporation investingCrane Rental expands truck fleet

23 More than 600,000 t for the first timeGerman inland waterways booming

24 Turkish turbinesOznakliyat supplies three wind farms

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The Indian enterprise Alaacrity Logistics andProjects was involved in the transportation ofthree huge reactors across some of the country’sroughest terrain. It nevertheless delivered thegoods two weeks early.

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32 Double-decker wagons to RussiaFrom a flirt to a kiss

33 From China to BangladeshIndians set new speed record

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Dear readers,Globalisation is proceeding apace, unhampered by any of

the many crises currently rocking the world. This leaves the

heavylift and project cargo industry in an advantageous

position. Shifting production plants or establishing new

factories naturally calls for the transportation of plant equip-

ment and components, as well as entire factories, to coun-

tries where wages are lower or growth more promising. In

addition to this field there are ongoing positive develop-

ments in the renewable energy sector, particularly in the

wind power segment (see pages 24 and 25).

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rate a decent return in investment. It goes without saying

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sector represented «real» shipping, as it handles spectacular

freight instead of boringly uniform and endlessly identical

containers. The individual dimensions, characteristics and

weights of this segment call for careful planning, he

enthused.

This Breakbulk /Heavylift supplement shows that

demand for special transport remains lively

and diverse. We are used to huge haul-

age tasks, with their expert monitoring

and frequent infrastructural interven-

tions, on roads and the seven seas

– and now they are increasingly

taking place on rivers and

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pages 23, 35 and 42).

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What is 50 m long, 5 m wide and weighs190 t? Why, a high-pressure container,constructed by the Austrian plant engi-neering company ACE, based in Liebochnear Graz, of course! It was manufacturedfor one of Russia’s largest chemical facto-ries, located in Veliky Novgorod, andshipped to Russia from the inland portof Vienna at the end of August.

The module is the key componentof an ammonia plant that ACE madefor the chemical factory. «The extra-ordinary container, manufactured fromspecial materials that are both acid andtemperature-resistant, has to be able towithstand extremely high pressures,»Markus Fuchsbichler, managing directorof ACE, said as the container was beingloaded onto a Belgian inland barge in theport of Vienna.

Road survey and route planningChristian Prangl, the owner and mana-ging director of the Austrian heavy lo-gistics company, Prangl, explained to theITJ that transporting the container andother associated plant components fromLieboch and ACE’s Slovenian factory inMaribor to the port of Vienna posed anextremely special logistical challenge.«We had to plan the transportation

along the 200 km route seven monthsin advance.» It was not possible to trans-port the container, together with someother heavylift cargo packaging units, toVienna on the motorway, because thereare 4.5 m height restrictions on the route.So how best to haul the 5.2 m high pack-ages to the Austrian capital?

Unloaded by two mobile cranesThe journey Prangl opted for took fournights, using municipal and countryroads. The project team carried out anextensive route analysis in advance, cover-ing the distance with a special measuringvehicle and recording the road conditionsin detail. Prangl subsequently describedthe transport as adventurous, becausethe overall vehicle dimensions of thefour individual shipments were extremelyspectacular, with lengths of 33 m, widthsand heights of 5.2 m and weights of 85 t.

At the port of Vienna the module wasunloaded using two 100 t mobile cranes,with the components being handled ina tandem hoist. They were then weldedtogether on site by ACE’s assembly team,to form two modules. The wall thicknessand diameter of the container also placedhigh demands on the welding seams. Thepower supply at the port of Vienna was

specially adapted for this purpose, inorder to be able to operate the necessaryassembly equipment.

In Vienna, the heavy cargo was loadedonto a 135 m barge, which is one of thelargest vessels that can navigate the Rhine,Main and Danube rivers with such aload on board without any problems.The vessel transported the shipment toRotterdam, where the packaging unitswere loaded onto an ocean-going vesselfor the onward journey to St Petersburg.ACE commissioned Prangl to managelogistics from both factories to Vienna.

Intermodal transport via waterwaysAccording to Fuchsbichler, the Russianlogistics company DIS, which is head-quartered in St Petersburg, was then incharge of handling the shipment’s trans-portation to its final destination in Russia,via the country’s inland waterways.

Due to their specific dimensions, thethree components loaded in Vienna werelifted in a sophisticated tandem hoistoperation, using two high and heavy500 t and 300 t mobile cranes. The threecomponents were then assembled afterthey were delivered directly to VelikyNovgorod. The two segments of the largehigh-pressure container alone were about25 m long and weighed about 100 t each.

The company Prangl not only operatesin the heavylift cargo logistics sector inAustria. Christian Prangl told the ITJ thathis enterprise employs 630 people at itslocations in seven European countries.He is very satisfied with how business iscurrently developing. «Our biggest chal-lenge is the investments that we’ve made,because they’re associated with risks.»

Looking to the future, the Austrianfirm has purchased some new craneswith carrying capacities of up to 500 t,plus other new equipment. These unitsare intended to remain active in the fleetfor at least 10 to 15 years – and are simul-taneously expected to operate at maxi-mum capacity during that time.

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Heavy going for chemicalsSeveral extra-heavy packaging units destined for a Russian chemical factory were transhipped onto a barge in the inland port of

Vienna at the end of August. The Austrian heavy logistics company Prangl described the first leg to Vienna, which took four nights

on municipal and country roads, as adventurous. The ITJ’s Austrian correspondent Josef Müller was on site to observe proceedings.

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SNS International Transport, a Turk-ish forwarder based in Istanbul that isalso a member of the GPLN network, wasrecently mandated with a logistics pro-ject as part of reconstruction efforts in

Somalia. SNS International is ISO 9001certified and specialises in heavylift pro-ject design and management. It recentlytransported a 366 t Gottwald Port Tech-nology crane, which has the capacity tolift 100 t, to the country. The equipment,destined for Mogadishu, is the first-eversuch unit to be deployed in Somalia.

It was not only the excessive weightof 366 t that played a big part in thetransportation task, but the crane’s greatlength of 17 m. The unit’s tower is 36 mhigh, excluding its boom.

The crane was transported with otherequipment and material, including hun-dreds of tons of steel, several trucks withtrailers, container stackers, excavatorsand forklift trucks. This was all loadedonto a barge in the port of Trabzon. Up-on completion of this part of the loadingthe vessel proceeded to the port of Der-ince, where it took concrete plant equip-ment assemblies as well as plastic piping

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less than 8.3 m, and the entire consignment tipped the scales at a ratherimpressive 250 t.

The fact that the load had to be moved at night set up anotherhurdle. Against such a backdrop, the project managers had to make aseries of special arrangements on the route from Mäntyluoto to Nokia.For instance, electricity had to be cut off in 70 places, and telephonecables and the power lines along this stretch of the journey had to bedetached from their pylons so that the unit could pass.

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handling the task, Nurminen Logistics,

took the challenge in its stride, however.

Nurminen Logistics, the member ofthe Cargo Equipment Experts network(CEE) for Finland, recently carried outone of the most challenging special roadtransport projects ever to take place inthat country.

The task involved the restaurant shipSilver Sky, which is the largest boat everto sail on inland waters in Finland. TheSilver Sky, which was built by a shipyard in Turkey,arrived at the port of Mäntyluoto in the city of Pori, tothe north of Turku on the country’s southwestern coast,at the beginning of August. From that hub the vessel hadto be hauled by truck to Nokia, a location near the cityof Tampere, in Finland’s interior.

A ship in the nightThe dimensions of the floating restaurant were particu-larly challenging. The unit was 30 m long and 7 m wide.The overall height of the special shipment totalled no

GBS remains on courseThe liner services offered by the enterprise Global BoatShipping have been well received by the market. Thecompany recently conveyed five yachts from Hamburgin a single week. To fulfil such tasks GBS Yacht Trans-port uses the units deployed on liner services providedby larger shipping corporations. This enables GlobalBoat Shipping to offer reliable departure and arrivaltimes to its clients – namely yacht owners, sales person-nel as well as boat builders.

The company anticipates that demand for the carriageof yachts will continue to increase in coming months.In addition to destinations in the Middle and Far East,the transport volume is expected to rise predominantlyin North and South America, according to Michel Wirt,who is in charge of liner services at GBS Hamburg. Heis convinced that «our offices in North America and theMediterranean basin are well placed to export vesselsand yachts in these markets.» av

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Antonov Airlines named Bertling as itssales and marketing agent at the end ofAugust. The goal is to market and sellthe unique air transport capacities of theAntonov An-225 to a variety of customersin the United States. The Ukrainian air-craft operator deploys a single An-225Mriya, seven An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft,one An-22 Antey, two An-12s, one An-26and one An-74T.

The An-225 is particularly impressive.With its six turbofan jet engines, a lengthof 85.3 m and a wingspan of 88 m, it cancarry up to 250 t of cargo in a singleshipment – that corresponds to 52 fully-grown elephants.

Valery Kubalka, the commercial direc-tor of Antonov Airlines, is well aware ofthe significance of this means of trans-port. «In view of the growing number of

large-scale logistics projects, the An-225’suniqueness and extraordinary capabili-ties have placed the aircraft squarely inthe heavylift limelight. Our cooperationwith Bertling will be based on mutualinterest and expertise in the heavyliftcargo market. We’re confident that we’llbe able to work successfully in the verypromising US market,» he elaborated.

US market requires cooperation«With its expertise as well as its in-houseengineering solutions Antonov Airlineshas set new standards in the developmentof airfreight options in the global logis-tics industry,» says Konstantin Vekshin,the vice-president in charge of air cargocharters at Bertling Logistics Houston,returning the compliment.

Vekshin added that Bertling felt privi-leged by the opportunity to enter into thispartnership and market the services ofthe An-225. In conclusion, Vekshin saidthat he is convinced that «the industry-specific experience and long-standing tra-dition of both partners is a virtual gua-rantee of success for our marketing effortsin the USA.» ah

Antonov Airlines names Bertling as its US sales agent for the An-225

A marriage of titansThe German logistics firm Bertling, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2015,

and Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines, which has held the record for the world’s largest

commercial freighter for a quarter of a century, are set to work together more closely.

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France Cargo International (FCI), aFrench freight forwarding firm established in 1989, carried out a project cargotask in July which is otherwise only feasible for the very biggest service providers. The job called for the transportation of five agricultural machines, withindividual weights of 45.4 t each anddimensions of 8.6 x 3.3 x 4.5 m, fromFrance to Xiamen (China). The first stageof the journey of these selfpropelled fieldsprayers of the Raptor model, which wentfrom the south of France to the seaport ofAntwerp, turned out to be a particularlybig challenge.

Alternative to the very big playersThe difficulty consisted in finding a vehicle that was able to accommodate themachines, which have wheels that aremore than 3 m wide. «Some of our competitors contacted before we were, wereunable to come up with a solution,» reported Denis Mandil, FCI’s manager incharge of project freight. Subsequently,the corresponding lowloading truck had

to be enforced with metal joints on eitherside, to accommodate the wide machinesand to cope with their weight. Only thenwas it possible for FCI to carry out theroad haulage operation on behalf of itscustomer. As the mediumsized WCAmember had already completed the customs formalities in France, there was noobstacle to carrying out the quick operation of loading the units onto a conventional vessel headed for the Far East. ah

G-Solutions in networksGlobal Freight Solutions (GSolutions),an independent freight broker fromSweden whose head office is located inGothenburg, recently joined two international networks in one go. In the secondquarter, GSolutions became a member ofthe Combined Logistics Networks, whichconsists of 300 freight forwarders globallyand is based in Hong Kong (China). Thecompany is hoping for new business relationships from the move, in particular inthe area of airfreight and logistics.

GSolutions also announced at the endof August that it had become a memberof the XLProjects network. This globalgroup of expert independent projectfreight forwarders and charterers, whichis based in the Thai capital Bangkok, canlook forward to working with its experienced new member Global Freight Solutions. «Project cargo logistics is one of thecornerstones in our portfolio. Regardlessof whether a multimodal or singlecarriersolution is required, it os one of our specialities,» GSolutions said, in a confidentpresentation to its new partners. ah

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DHL Global Forwarding successfully rana large part of an ocean freight projectfor the family-owned German construc-tion company GP Günter Papenburg,hauling loads from Germany to Ghana.125 pieces of machinery and equipment,including 15 bulldozers, 20 loaders, tenexcavators, 60 motor graders and 20 tip-pers, as well as some spare parts, were alltransported from Nordhausen to Ghana.Five deliveries weighing a total of 1,596 twere managed in around three months.Another 80 pieces of building machineryare set to be shipped from the Germanmaritime port of Hamburg in the lastquarter of this year.

Volker Oesau, DHL Global Forwar-ding GmbH’s chairman of the board,told the media that «planning, managingand coordinating such complex and largeconsignments requires a skilled and pro-fessional team of experts, with consider-able practical experience, on the job. Thefact that GP Günter Papenburg entrustedus with this assignment once again showsthat our clients appreciate our professio-nal approach to complex global transpor-tation projects.»

DHL’s services for Papenburg inclu-ded project management, handling theunpacked construction machinery andequipment in the port of Hamburg, the

maritime transportation by ro-ro vessel,and looking after insurance for the goods.Once the shipments arrive in the Africandeepsea port of Tema, the Ghanaianministry of local government and ruraldevelopment manages on-forwarding.

The national government provides thesubaltern district administrations in thecountry with construction machineryand equipment, because giving the localauthority access to these materials enablesa more direct approach to developmentprojects. The main goal of the federal

endeavour is to promote development oflocal infrastructure, including restoringand maintaining streets, feeder roads andlong-distance highways. Before the equip-ment commences operations, Papenburgstaff teaches local drivers how to operateit and ensures that the machinery can bedeployed to the optimum benefit. Theenterprise additionally trains a local teamin Ghana, which will be in a position tocarry out maintenance and repair workon the construction equipment indepen-dently in the near future. ah

Family-run company teams up with multinational corporation

Heavy-duty equipment to GhanaDHL Global Forwarding, the division of Deutsche Post DHL that looks after air and sea freight and road haulage operations for the

corporation, recently managed a part of a major transcontinental project for the company GP Günter Papenburg, from the German

city of Halle (Saale), near Leipzig. The task involved handling goods weighing just a smidgeon below 1,600 t.

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BNSF Railway is one of the largest railfreight companies in the world. In 2002Burlington Northern Santa Fe, BNSFRailway’s parent company, bought BNSFLogistics (BNSFL), thus adding projectcargo activities to its portfolio and takinga major step on the path to becoming aleading player in the field. The firm hascontinuously invested in this segmentsince then, recognising that there remainsa great potential for growth in the sector,partially on account of the ongoing expansion of global infrastructure.

Now the Banning CA office of BNSFLogistics, a member of the Worldwide

Project Consortium (WWPC) networkin the USA, has handled the transportation of three transformers, each weighingapproximately 154 t. The consignments,measuring approximately 9.7 x 3 x 4.6 m,were hauled from the inland port of Baltimore to a jobsite in the same state, namelythat of Maryland.

The transformers were transported byrail to the nearest siding, where they wereloaded onto a special hydraulic 15axleGoldhofer platform trailer and thencetransported to the site. There the equipment was placed on its foundation by thesocalled jackandslide method. it

From Hamburg andIstanbul to ExshawIn another undertaking BNSF Logistics’Houstonbased Global Project Center(GPC) teamed up with the Istanbulbasedforwarder Smart Logistics, which is theWWPC member in Turkey, to handle thetransport of 2,500 cbm of sophisticatedcementmaking machinery. The projectincluded lifting about 68 t and transporting the shipments from the ports ofHamburg and Izmir to a site in Exshaw, asmall village with a number of industrialplants in the Canadian province of Alberta. The consignments were routed viaHalifax, Houston and Tacoma, to complywith road permit and clearance requirements. The managers in charge of theundertaking were pleased to report that«the equipment was delivered to the finaldestination on time.» it

US railfreight operator continues to promote project cargo logistics

Expansion remains the watchwordBNSF Logistics, a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), recently

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CFL Cargo, which was created by merging the freight unit of the Luxembourgian national railway company CFL andthe transport department of steelmakerArcelorMittal’s Luxembourg productionsites, recently hauled 14 beams, each ofwhich was 60 m long, from Differdange(Luxembourg) to Germany.

This was the second delivery of such consignments, CFL Cargo having carried outa similar task early last year. Both transports saw the units carried by rail fromthe production plant to the capital of theGerman federal state of Saxony.

The strict quality standards imposedby the bridge constructor Deutsche Bahn

meant that the beams were subject tonumerous inspections, with particularattention on the welds. They were examined with ultrasound and xrays to finddefects, the manufacturer explained.

CFL Cargo first had to make detailedplans for the exceptional task. The wagons were specially designed to transport the beams, to ensure that the traincould travel smoothly from Differdangeto Dresden with the behemoths, each ofwhich tipped the scales at almost 190 t,on board. Another constraint was thatdelivery to the site had to be made justin time, at the precise moment when thebeams were needed for installation, as itwas impossible to store them in the vicinity of the bridge under construction.

Fritz Crelo, the loading expert andhead wagon inspector at CFL Cargo, aleading European transporter of extralong beams, pointed out that «this secondsuccessful delivery proves that last year’soperation was not based on good luck.»The company said that, as the operation set a new precedent, ArcelorMittalhas applied for an entry in the GuinnessBook of Records. it

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Over-long beams across EuropeThe recent transport of 14 brand-new steel beams for the construction of a railway bridge

in Dresden cannot be described as an everyday event. The heavylift industry, which is not

exactly starved of superlatives, witnessed another record task.

The very long pieces could only be transported on specially-designed wagons.

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A crane for GeorgiaAlexander Global Logistics Germany(AGL), the member of the CEE network inthat country, recently transported a Lieb-herr crane weighing nigh-on 50 t from theNetherlands to Batumi (Georgia) as oceanfreight. The heavy load, which measured11.8 x 3.4 x 3.4 m, was accompanied by anumber of containers. Alexander GlobalLogistics Germany was in charge of pre-carriage activities, handling in the port,seafreight matters, on-carriage, customsclearance as well as the requisite surveysfor the project. it

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PPG names new member in MexicoBaselogístika / ICI Proyectos has joinedthe Project Professionals Group networkas the new member for Mexico. PPGgeneral manager Kevin Stephens saidthat the company has a good track recordin providing diverse logistics services tobusinesses, with the power-generation

industry particularly well represented.Stephens added that all of the PPG’smembers can now access the expertiseand knowledge of this leading business,which can assist firms engaged in projectcargo activities and infrastructure deve-lopment in Mexico. it

A number of new international contractsIt is generally acknowledged that theheavylift industry is enjoying good for-tune these days, a fact that was furtherunderlined by an announcement madeby Alexander Global Logistics, the CEEmember in Germany. Jürgen Weyhausen,Alexander Global Logistics’ project direc-tor, reported that the company has won anumber of fresh contracts, with all workdue to start soon and be completed byNovember this year.

The tasks include moving a 5,000 t air-separation plant from Germany to Russia,including handling some individual items

weighing up to 100 t each; and shifting1,000 t of machinery, with heavylift ship-ments and overdimensioned units as wellas around 60 containers, from Germanyto Canada.

A second Germany–Canada shipmentOver and above this, AGL will addition-ally ship two heavylift leach vessels – eachmeasuring 12 x 6 x 6 m – from Germany toCanada; a 67 t overdimensioned crawlercrane from Holland to Georgia in EasternEurope; and 700 t of pipes from Belgiumalso to Georgia. it

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For Van der Vlist, a Dutch specialist forheavylift operations, transports by bargeare not rare occasions. Last summer,however, the enterprise had to organisean inland shipping task of a very dif-ferent kind. Van der Vlist was part of aproject which involved a barge being car-ried by lorry and seagoing vessel. It washauled from Zaandam in the north of theNetherlands to the company premises ofExe Wake in Exmouth, in the county ofDevon in England.

The ship weighed in at 18 t and hadan overall length of 18 m, a width of4.2 m and a height of 1.6 m. The jour-ney’s point of departure was a depot in

Zaandam, from where it was transportedto the port of Hoek van Holland. There,the barge was loaded on board a seagoingvessel ready for shipment to Harwich, inEssex county. A private road haulageescort accompanied the load and ensuredthat onward forwarding in England wascarried out smoothly. Having arrived atits destination, the barge was unloaded bycrane and brought to the coast, so that itcould be launched while the tide was in.

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Broad fleet expansionThe USA’s Crane Rental Corporation iscontinuing its investment drive in thefield of heavylift operations.

The company recently ordered threenew four-axle lorries of the Peterbilt type.The three units are fitted with 550 hpCummins engines, and each is equippedwith 18 revolution-counter transmittersas well as lifting axles. The business willtake delivery of the heavylift equipmentin the fourth quarter of 2014.

The new additions illustrate the con-sistent expansion of the Crane RentalCorporation’s fleet. Over the past twelvemonths the firm has acquired several dif-ferent new cranes, including an electricPeiner SK415 unit; a Manitowoc 16000caterpillar crane with a lifting capacityof 440 t; a Manitowoc 18000 caterpillarcrane, the strongest of the new intake witha hoisting capacity of 660 t; a hydrauliclorry crane of the Terex AC 500-2 make,which can pick up 600 t; and last but notleast a Grove GMK 5275 crane, which isalso a hydraulic lorry crane and whichcan lift 275 t. av

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A barge in an unusual role

The barge was not in inland shipping action this time, but was transported on a Van der Vlist lorry.

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600,000 t record broken

Room for improvementEver more heavylift and project cargo is being transported on inland shipping routes in

Germany. Although the country’s inland waterway transportation association is pleased

about the development, it says that the potential is by no means exhausted.

Ever more heavylift consignments are beingforwarded on inland shipping barges.

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Up-to-date statistics published by Ger-many’s federal waterways and shippingauthority (Wasser- und Schifffahrtsver-waltung WSV) show that large and heavytransports are also continuing to grow insignificance in the inland shipping mode.In 2013 a total of no less than 657,108 t ofheavylift goods were hauled on the coun-try’s inland rivers and canals (excludingthe Rhine, Elbe and Danube, as heavyliftconsignments on these three rivers arenot recorded).

It is therefore safe to assume that theactual quantity of heavylift cargo trans-ported on inland waterways is consider-ably higher. The record of 600,000 t han-dled in a year was exceeded for the firsttime ever with 2013’s result. In 2012 theheavylift volume had stood at 572,530 t.

Ten years ago the figure was only onethird of the latest level.

This development suggests that indus-trial production companies and otherenterprises are increasingly relying onGermany’s river and canal system to shiftparticularly heavy and bulky goods, suchas turbines, plant assemblies and compo-nents for wind power plants.

The benefits are obvious to GeorgHötte, president of the national inlandwaterway transportation body (Bundes-verband der Deutschen Binnenschiff-fahrt BDB), who points out that thereis sufficient space on the canals. On topof this, overhead lines do not have to bedismantled there, or roads closed for largeconsignments. Neither lorries nor trainscan compete with the weights that an in-

land shipping barge can manage (up to40 t of point load per sqm is possible).

The statistics for H1/2014 suggest thatmore records will be broken this year.389,671 t of heavy goods were carried(over an average distance of 352 km) byJuly, making it likely that the 700,000 tmark will be overcome this year. av

Where there is no way, a way is simply made...India’s Alaacrity Logistics and Projectswas recently involved in the transport ofthree reactors, which had to be hauledfrom the port of Kandla to the GuruGobind Singh oil refinery located inBathinda, in the state of Punjab in north-ern India. The dimensions of the reactorswere 37.4 m in length, 6.5 m wide and7.2 m high. A special challenge was thatthe load had to be transferred directlyfrom the maritime vessel carrying it tothe freight forwarder’s waiting hydraulic-axle vehicles.

The challenges did not end there. Theheavylift project was a special event dueto two additional aspects. On the onehand the three shipments weighed in at703 and 724 and 848 t. The latter wasa record for the company. On the otherhand, no fewer than 45 detours had to betaken on the entire route, which spannedapproximately 1,500 km. A river had tobe crossed on a pontoon, for instance.In doing so, the company was able tomake best use of experience that it hadobtained in a similar project in 2010.

The two longest detours stretched as faras 2.5 km each. They went over the riversLuni and Ghaggar. A further detour tookthe shipments over the Narmada canal inthe state of Gujarat.

The total time of the journey wasscheduled to last 120 days, but thanks tothe specialised teams – consisting of engi-neers, technicians, supervisors and execu-tive employees under the management ofthe project and business managers – thecompany was able to deliver the reactorsin just 106 days.

The Bathinda refinery is operatedby Hindustan Mittal Energy Limited

(HMEL), a conglomerate consisting ofthe Hindustan Petroleum CorporationLimited (HPCL) and Mittal EnergyInvestments (MEI). HPCL and MEI hold49% stakes in the undertaking, whilstthe remaining 2% are owned by the fi-nancial institutions OFCI as well as theState Bank of India. The oil refinery hasbeen operational since March 2012, andits capacity amounts to approximately9 million t of oil a year. It is designed toprocess oil of the type Arab heavy crude.Furthermore, it also has the flexibility toprocess other heavy crude oils, be theysour or acidiferous. av

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Turkey is also relying on wind powerplants. Nordex, for instance, has wonorders for the construction of wind pow-er farms with major turbines in Turkey.Erdem Holding will erect seven plantsof the Delta generation for the TurkishOdemis wind farm. Rotor blades, towersand foundation baskets will be producedin Turkey for the project. Thanks todomestic production, a higher feed-in tar-iff is secured under Turkish feed-in laws.

Oznakliyat Kara Tasimaciligi, a memberof Turkey’s Priority Cargo Network, re-cently won an annual contract to trans-port wind turbines and rotor blades fromthe plant to the Turkish port of Izmir.

Short but tricky routeThe rotor blades, which are 58.5 m longand weigh 12 t each, are the biggest to beproduced in Turkey to date. They have tocover a distance of 25 km to reach their

destination. After a successful test trans-port, run through highly-urbanised areas,the actual operation started at 05.00 inthe morning – «in the light of a ratherrefreshing sunrise,» as a spokesperson forthe company put it.

Transformer to GebzeA transformer in need of repairs was a fur-ther transport task for Oznakliyat. Thepower converter, 10.5 m high, 3.8 m longand 4.4 m wide, had to be transportedfrom the port of Derince over a distanceof 44 km from the Alstom plant to Gebze.The piece, weighing more than 270 t, waslifted directly onto the hydraulic trailer,which sported 20 axles and a loading ca-pacity of 350 t, in the port, using the ves-sel’s own cranes.

The length of the self-propelled trans-port combination was a rather impres-sive 73.5 m. As the entrance to the plantturned out to be too narrow, the trans-former was moved to a hydraulic trailerwith 13 axles, using two mobile cranes(AC700 and AC1600). The destinationwas safely reached. Christian Doepgen

Exporting Turkish windmill blades for wind power plants

Into the sunsetTurkish industry is also diversifying into the field of renewable energy. The equipment for wind power plants with rotor blades

is produced in Turkey and used near the Aegean coast, amongst other places. Oznakliyat, a member of the Priority Cargo

Network, recently won a contract to transport the biggest Turkish rotor blades to date from the works to the port of Izmir.

The Turkish wind power industry is booming and has plenty of domestic transport requirements.

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Markus Tacke, the CEO of SiemensEnergy’s wind power unit, will not beable to fight off his increasing popular-ity in the heavylift industry. His com-pany has some very favourable winds inits sails, given the continuing boom inoffshore wind farms.

Whichever way the wind blowsAt the beginning of September SiemensEnergy received a contract to deliver67 wind turbines for the Dudgeon off-shore wind farm in Great Britain fromtwo Norwegian energy suppliers, namelyStatoil and Statkraft. As the new tur-bines’ rotor blades each measure 154 m,they will create orders aplenty for theheavylift shipping sector. Installation isslated to start at the beginning of 2017.The value of the order – including a

five year service contract – amounts tonearly EUR 650 million. In July Siemenslanded the order for the Dutch near shoreWestermeer wind project, which encom-passes 48 wind turbines with 108 m rotorsthat will be placed in the IJsselmeer. It isthe first turnkey project for the Germanfirm’s offshore business unit.

A multi-faceted sectorAn order for 72 turbines for the Sand-bank offshore wind farm was placed byVattenfall in August. Construction workaround 90 km west of the German islandof Sylt will commence in summer 2015.Here the quantum rotor blades will be75 m long.

In addition to transporting rotors,installing the platforms themselves isanother activity for heavylift specialists.

The Dutch enterprises Mammoet, Sea-way Heavy Lifting and Dockwise, forexample, recently worked in tandemand utilised an innovative method toinstall a converter platform in the NorthSea. The SylWin Alpha power platform,which weighs 14,000 t and is 83 m long,56 m wide and 26 m high, was movedfrom a pontoon to the legs of a steeljacket, using the float-over method.It was the first time that this process,which is standard in the Far East andAmerica, was applied in Europe.

Construction and service overheadsThe heavylift logistics sector has plentyof reasons to be confident about thefuture – and not only because of theoffshore industry’s new plans. After theactual construction of a wind farm, thesubsequent maintenance required mustnot be underestimated.

Thetechnicalapprovalauthorityat theRisø National Laboratory in Denmarkrecently reported that 15 offshore tur-bines broke down in three years. Most re-cently a turbine caught fire at the Cappa-boy wind farm near Cork (Ireland) on30 June. Two of the three rotor bladeswere damaged in the incident. So opera-tional wind farms also offer the heavyliftsector possibilities. Christian Doepgen

Developments in the offshore wind farm industry

Business on an upward trajectoryWind farms are continuing to gain ground. In May this year Siemens received an order for a new Dutch offshore project that will be

established in the North Sea, around 80 km from the Groningen coast. Although the 144 wind turbines, each with a 130 m rotor blade,

still have to be produced in Denmark, there will be no lack of transport contracts in this field in future.

The boom in offshore energy generation is set to continue unabated in coming years.

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Lift&Shift Engineering Middle East(LSEME), a customer of Nicolas Indus-trie, the French component of the TIIGroup, successfully completed one ofthe largest and heaviest transport con-tracts ever carried out in the sultanate ofOman recently. The major challenges ofthe task included a very high centre ofgravity, as well as difficult ground con-ditions. These were mastered by relyingon self-propelled electronically-steeredNicolas MHD SPE units, vehicles thatare recognised particularly for their stur-diness and bending moment.

Massive consignmentsThese units represented an advantagefor Lift & Shift Engineering MiddleEast, which was recently awarded a con-tract to transport five offshore decks

and a bridge to a manufacturing yardin Sohar, namely the Indian corpora-tion Larsen & Toubro’s Omani oil andgas industry modular fabrication facil-ity. The modules, with rather impressivedimensions and weights (see box), weredelivered to offshore oil fields, specifi-cally to the Abu Dhabi Marine Operat-ing Company site at the Umm Lulu oilfield and to Umm Qasr.

The planning for this transport com-menced in 2012, with the task now com-pleted two years later. LSEME’s jobsincluded engineering the transport sche-matics for all trailer arrangements, ma-rine analysis – to identify the suitabilityof barges – as well as a final ballast andloading plan.

152 axle lines in actionA total of 152 Nicolas MHD SPE axlelines were deployed. They were drivenby seven power packs. LSEME’s team oftechnicians and engineers from Oman,India and UAE were in charge of theoperation. Unloading the WHT 6 mod-ule represented an especially challeng-ing task, as it had to be carried out infading evening light. LSEME’s team

nevertheless managed to finish the jobas required. Nicolas Industrie, which isbased in Champs-sur-Yonne (France), wasfounded in 1855. It manufactures indus-try transporters, special vehicles – andthe Tractomas, the largest tractor in theworld. ah

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Middle Eastern master classLift & Shift Engineering Middle East was founded in 2012. Since the inception of the joint venture between the Omani enterprise Fastco

and India’s Apurva Parikh Group Company, aka Lift & Shift India, LSEME has been a Nicolas customer. The French technological leader

contributed substantially to the success of a rather large project recently.

The chassis of the Nicolas modular heavy duty vehicle has been dimensioned to accept extremely concentrated loads. The modular design of the trailersoffers an extensive range of transport solutions which can be coupled side by side or end to end.

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The bridge (above) was the light-weightamongst the shipments. Four sets of NicolasMHD SPE units with 32 axle lines each wereneeded for module MFT 1, however.

• Module WHT 1 – 27 x 30 x 23 m – 2,250 t• Module WHT 2 – 37 x 24 x 24 m – 3,050 t• Module WHT 4 – 35 x 43 x 33 m – 2,900 t• Module WHT 6 – 47 x 27 x 37 m – 3,600 t• Module MFT 1 – 37 x 37 x 15 m – 2,600 t• A bridge – 85 x 6 x 6 m – 570 t

Weights and sizes of the modules


The Argosy Transportation Group, which is based in Bellaire near Houston TX (USA), is a

member of the Cargo Equipment Experts network. The company recently hauled massive

LPG tanks from Central to South America.

excessive dimensions of the consignmentsconcerned – every container was 27 mhigh, had a diameter of 4 m, and weighedin at 40 t per shipment – the heavylift ex-perts first had to make sure that the suit-able haulage tackle – which was required

for the safe, secure and efficient transferof the equipment from an interim storagelocation in the port of Georgetown to thebuilding site – was brought from Houstonto Guyana. During the project Argosy’sspecialists collaborated closely with thecontract customer, a firm from the oiland gas industry, as well as the Guyaneseauthorities.

Argosy was founded in 1996 and has abroad range of clients in the energy, con-struction, mining and transport indus-tries. It specialises in maritime transportservices, covering everyday needs as wellas complex and challenging projects forits numerous customers. ah

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Great big gas tanks to Guyana

60,000 gallons of gas fit into each of the four large tanks that Argosy shifted from Mexico to Guyana. The project required close collaboration with theenterprise’s oil and gas industry customer as well as the Guyanese authorities.

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The Argosy Transportation Group’s taskconsisted of shifting four large gas tanksfrom the port of Veracruz (Mexico) to theplace where they were due to be installed,namely the gas depot in Georgetown, thecapital city of Guyana. In the light of the

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Bernd Schwengsbier, managing direc-tor for sales with Transporter IndustryInternational (the TII Group), an asso-ciation of the heavy-duty vehicle spe-cialists Scheuerle, Nicolas Industrie (seealso page 27 of this Special) and Kamag,added that «Roll-it is a perfect exampleof what happens when entrepreneurship,expertise and the right equipment arestrategically combined.» ah

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Roll-it, a joint venture between the firmsAertssen Kranen (the Aertssen Group)and Ivens Transport&Kraanbedrijf (theIvens Group), is expanding its capacitiesin order to be able to provide its clientswith services for ever larger and ever un-wieldier consignments. Roll-it has justordered 24 Scheuerle SPMT split axlelines, an version that can be divided inhalf to form three file combinations toaccommodate transport routes with re-stricted spatial conditions.

Hardware for a success storyThe units were soon in action for theenterprise. Tom van Runckelen, Roll-it’saccount and project manager, explainedthat «last week was the busiest week eversince we began working with Scheuerle’sself-propelled modular transporters. Wehad 168 axles on the move, of which104 were rented out to various partieson three of the week’s five workingdays. The standardisation of Scheuerle’sSPMTs gives us the flexibility we needto react to increasing demand that we’recurrently facing.»

Business is becoming increasingly prosperous since the company Roll-it took over its first

self-propelled modular transporter in 2007. The Belgian firm, based in Stabroek, is a joint

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with only a 10 cm clearance on each side of the beam underneath thecargo, so HHL lifted the piece straight up.

Ian Broad, Hansa Heavy Lift’s director of cargo management, pointsout that HHL’s experts had to place heavy load platforms under eachsaddle, in order to distribute the weight evenly. «Prior to this, we hadalready ensured that every measurement was totally exact, as we wouldnot be able to move the heavy lift platforms again, once the cargo wasin its place,» he adds.

Joerg Roehl, the chief commercial officer and managing director ofHansa Heavy Lift, is confident of HHL’s abilities to handle such tasks.«We have the expertise required to deal with ever larger shipments. Ourships, our specialist equipment and our experienced teams enabled usto successfully tackle this challenging move.» av

From Mumbai to New Orleans

A very good(re)actionThe greater the dimensions the more important the

details. The specialist Hansa Heavy Lift loaded a 56 m

reactor onto one of its ships recently, and every

centimetre counted in the process.

Loading massive modules frequently calls for millimetreprecision. Shipping a reactor weighing no less than 405 tfrom Mumbai to New Orleans proved to be a ratherinteresting challenge for a team from the specialist com-pany Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) in August. The first con-signment was a 56 m reactor, as was the second shipmenthandled in the same operation. The latter may have beena «mere» 39 m long – but it was equally difficult to han-dle, as it weighed in at a staggering 830 t.

The reactors were delivered to Mumbai by barge.There the company heaved them on board one of HansaHeavy Lift’s P2 vessels, the HHL Richards Bay, directlyfrom on the water. «Due to the great length of the reac-tor we could not load the piece parallel,» Heiner Heise,Hansa Heavy Lift’s cargo superintendent in charge ofthe operation, illustrated.

The solution, the specialist continues, was to developa detailed plan together with the HHL team, on the basisof which the two on-board cranes were swung out andaway to their maximum outreach inch by inch, thusensuring that the overly-long reactor could be heavedcarefully on board. The smallest crane in particular hadto be swung out as far as possible. There was neverthelessnot much room for manoeuvre. «The equipment finallyreached its spot above the hold, and was then kept paral-lel by the two cranes whilst it was lowered into the cargospace,» Heise elaborates.

This delicate and time-consuming process did notbring the complicated job to an end, however. Gettingthe heaviest piece on the vessel was not much easier. Thehoisting of the 830 t consignment had to be carried out

One of the reactors loaded on board the «HHL Richards Bay» was 56 m long, whilstthe other one weighed 830 t.

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Ready for the next assignmentThe installation ship Pacific Orca has completed somework for the North Sea wind farm Borkum Riffgrund(see also ITJ 9-10/2014, page 28). The equipment neededon board the unit for this particular project was dis-charged at the breakbulk and offshore wind facility (Bowterminal) in Vlissingen (Netherlands). The Pacific Orcawas then prepared and equipped for its next trip. TheBow terminal specialises in unloading and re-equippingvessels for wind farm installation work. av

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the airport. Four of the units are being manufactured inAltenrhein, in eastern Switzerland, and the rest will beproduced in a Stadler plant in Minsk (Belarus). The complete commissioning process will take place in Minsk.

The planners opted for intermodal transport, becausethe dimensions of the trains made in Switzerland madedelivering them by rail unfeasible. A total of 20 individual railcars will be delivered by road over three nightsfrom eastern Switzerland to the Auhafen inland portin Muttenz, in western Switzerland. The railcars have alength of nearly 50 m, a height of 5.2 m and are 4.2 mbroad at their widest point. This means that they cannoteven be transported the full distance on those exceptional routes designated type I routes by the authorities.

In the canton of Aargau, for instance, the trucks hadto take a detour along a residential street between Endingen and Würenlingen, and after that made their wayalong a partially unpaved rural road. From the cantonalborder between Thurgau and Zurich to the cantonal border between Aargau and Solothurn the vehicles have tocover 120 km instead of the standard 88 km.

Three legs: road – barge – rail ferryIn order to plan the sequence of such a complex heavytransport, the proposed route was measured with a 3Dlaser scanner. Special software combined the measurement data from the scan with the specific vehicle data,in order to generate an assessment that enabled the planners to say conclusively whether – and where – problemscould crop up over the course of the trip.

The leg from Basel to Amsterdam will be handled bya inland barge on the river Rhine. A sixcar train can betransported in a single trip. For the third leg of the voyage, a coastal shipping vessel will transport the cargo tothe Sassnitz Mukran ferry terminal, via the Kiel canal.In Sassnitz Mukran the individual cars will be placedon their broadgauge bogies and assembled into four orsixcar trains.

At this point, the trains will not be able to travel undertheir own power. Some of the tracks on Sassnitz Mukranhave been laid in the 1,520 mm Russian gauge, whichmakes it possible to manoeuvre the complete trains ontothe rail ferries that travel to the port of UstLuga, nearSt Petersburg, which is naturally equipped with Russianbroadgauge tracks. From there, the trains will be transported to Minsk, where they will be commissioned. Thetransport of all four trains is expected to be completedby spring 2015. Reinhard Reiss

Double-decker wagons to Russia

From a flirt to a kissStadler is currently manufacturing 25 of its Kiss-type double-decker

passenger trains for export to Russia, to fill an order from Aeroexpress.

The spectacular transport from Switzerland, where four of the trains are

being built, started in early September in eastern Switzerland, and

included an intermediate stop in the Auhafen inland port in Muttenz.

The order from the Russian firm Aeroexpress for 25 doubledecker passenger trains from Swiss train manufacturer Stadler – which also makesthe Flirttype train – was placed in February 2013, but the transportof the first unit only began recently. The new units, nine sixcar and16 fourcar trains in all, will run between the Moscow city centre and

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Transit in record timefor power station partsExpress Global Logistics (formerly knownas Express Transport) recently loadedthe impressive total of 8,094 t of cargoand shipped it from Yantai (China) tothe maritime port of Mongla, where theequipment is destined for a Bangladeshipower project.

15 rather large modules made up a sub-stantial part of the consignments. Theyalso contained steam boilers for variouspressure ranges, including high, mediumand low pressure. The boilers, made in theprovince of Shandong, weighed in at upto 158 t and measured 26.8 m in length,with a width of 4.8 m and a height of2.8 m. The heaviest drum weighed 115 tand measured 13.4 m long, was 3 m wideand 3.6 m high.

Express Global Logistics managed toconvince the shipowner of the vessel thatit had chartered that, considering the ur-gent need for the cargo, the vessel shouldskip the next port of call after Yantai anddivert the route directly to Mongla. Thisresulted in the transit time being substan-tially shortened to just 18 days.

Members of EXG’s project team hadpersonally visited Yantai before the ac-tual transport was carried out, to ensuresmooth loading operations and comple-tion of the shipment in the stipulatedtimeframe. The challenge was to arrangefor a vessel matching the cargo to betransported to be available at the port ofYantai on the appointed day. There wasonly one 18-axle hydraulic truck availablein the port to bring the modules alongsidethe vessel. With skilled loading, stowingand fastening the loading operations werecompleted on time.

Express Global Logistics (EXG) is aproject cargo specialist established in1946. The asset-based company is head-quartered in Mumbai and has substantialexperience in handling project cargo on aturnkey basis. Christian Doepgen

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XXL teaming upThe BLG Logistics Group has pooled itsheavylift divisions in a new unit calledBLG Heavylift Specialists. In additionto BLG’s automobile, contract and con-tainer logistics units, the integrated de-partment, with offices in Bremen andBremerhaven, will look after heavyliftand project cargo logistics. The companysays its three terminals in Bremerhavenand Bremen collaborate to move all kindsof XXL consignments.

The company’s offshore terminal onthe ABC peninsula in Bremerhaven isprotected by a 55 m wide and 305 mlong lock called the Kaiserschleuse. Herethe firm offers a distributed load capac-ity of up to 20 t per sqm. BLG wind en-ergy’s logistics centre in Bremerhaven

is also located here, with a 37,000 sqmwarehouse. The facilities also include theBremerhaven ro-ro facility, where a highand heavy terminal offers a central Mafipacking station. The Neustädter port areain Bremen, located 60 km upstream onthe river Weser, offers crane capacities ofmore than 200 t, as well as heavylift fork-lift units and reach-stackers. The centrehas extensive experience in assemblingmodules on the quay itself, which is deepenough for seagoing ships, before loadingthem onto heavylift vessels.

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Olicargo, a member of the Project CargoNetwork (PCN) as well as of the forwarders’ alliance WCA, recently managed aninteresting project in the scrap metalfield. Its specialised project cargo teamcarried out a task that internally wasdubbed the «special multimodal roadand sea transport» operation. The world’sstrongest scrap shears, with a shear forceof 2,500 t, were transported to the northin separate lots, where they will be usedto recycle oil platforms.

Each shipment encompassed about1,200 cbm, which meant that 700 t werecarried at a time. They were transport

ed from Portugal to theprivate Norwegian portof Raunes by Olicargo’sproject team. The undertaking was completed inJuly. Transportation wascarried out under thecareful supervision of Olicargo’s abovementioned team, whichlooked after the loading of the cargo aswell as the specialist lashing required.The shipments, which travelled about4,500 km, required several items of highlyspecialised pieces of equipment, as well asa dedicated and suitable vessel.

The project was completed without anaccident, thus giving the company a success rate of 100% for the doortodoortransportation task. Olicargo said that«our experience, knowhow and innovation, allied to dedication and local followup, were crucial to success.» it

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Universal Transport’s preparation paid offrecently when a transformer was loadedonto an inland barge at the riverine quayof a Nuremberg-based customer. Thevessel then sailed to a designated pick-up point on the Rhine–Main–DanubeCanal, where it took two radiator batter-ies on board. Once the load arrived in theport of Brunsbüttel on the Elbe estuaryin northern Germany the extraordinaryconsignment was successfully transferredfrom the barge to a special truck with theaid of a floating crane.

The 52 m truck-and-trailer convoyprovided by Universal Transport con-sisted of pulling tractors combined withpushing units. Two 8x4-axle tractors andan additional 18 modular axles were de-

ployed to shift the shipment to an elec-tric power distribution station locatednear Brunsbüttel. The 261 t transformerwas 11.3 m long, 3.8 m wide and 4.4 mhigh. The two radiators weighed in at 32 teach and were 7.1 m long, 3.9 m wide and4.4 m high. The total weight of the pro-ject cargo thus came to almost 400 t.

Expanding its project cargo activitiesUniversal Transport executive HolgerDechant said that «this uncommon multi-modal transport task once again enabledus to show that we don’t simply dischargeour responsibility at the end of the quay.On top of this we also continuously ex-pand our heavylift capabilities and ournetwork of reliable project partners.»

A 400 t transformer goes intermodal

The port was the key interfaceA Siemens transformer was recently transferred from an inland barge to a huge truck in

the port of Brunsbüttel on the Elbe estuary in Germany. Universal Transport, a heavylift

logistics enterprise, handled the unit, which is as long as a four-storey building is high.

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Frank Schnabel, the managing director of theprivate operator Brunsbüttel Ports, said thathis firm «handled more than 5.8 million t inthe first half of the year, or almost 5% morethan in the like-for-like period in 2013.» Theimprovement was down to the hub increa-sing the volumes of building materials, windenergy equipment and liquid cargo handled.

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Volga-Dnepr Airlines is looking for new heavy air cargo transport solutions

Giant cargo planes of the future

Volga-Dnepr loads a cigarette onto a plane

Power boats boast a whole herd of horsepower that helpsthem to cut through coastal waves without slowing evena mite. But Pegasus is not part of their armoury, so that isnot enough for them to be able to fly across the oceans.They have to make conventional use of an aeroplane forthat, as we all do. Volga-Dnepr Airlines recently flew onesuch Cigarette Marauder power boat from Doha to Nice.The transport required a rather special solution.

The 14 t boat could not be loaded into the IlyushinIL-76TD-90VD cargo hold by a standard trailer usingthe aircraft’s ramp and internal crane. So Volga-DneprAirlines had to develop a special loading solution to caterfor the size of the boat and the small amount of groundclearance. The engineers installed an extension ramp,one which is normally used to load heavy and outsizedcargo onto Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters, theworld’s largest serially-produced cargo aircraft. The rampreduced the angle that the boat and trailer had to nego-tiate as they were loaded into the aircraft, and meantthe boat could be driven into the IL-76 on its trailer.Rinat Akhmetov, Volga-Dnepr’s sales executive, told themedia that «delivering special boats always requires anindividual approach, as they are quite awkward.»

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The competition, which ran for twelvemonths, ended on 15 August, with thewinners announced at the 3rd Inter-national Air Transport Forum in Ulya-novsk, the southern Russian city whereVolga-Dnepr was founded in 1990. Thewinning team was made up of Ilya Ageev,

Sergey Borovykh and Nikolay Turbin,students at Moscow’s Aviation Institute.

A triple-deckerThey impressed the jury, which con-sisted of Victor Tolmachev (the techni-cal director at Volga-Dnepr as well as

the chief designer of the An-124) with a200-page feasibility study for the designof a heavylift aircraft concept with a newaerodynamic configuration.

Their proposal (see the sketch below)consisted of a complete description anddesign study for a triple-decker aircraft inthe An-225’s class. The unit will have twobooms, between which there will be anexternal load capacity for «super-heavyand oversized cargo». This simultane-ously represented a job application – the

The cigarette being loaded thanks to a special ramp.

A design competition seeking the cargo aircraft of the 21st century inspired many an

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three students are now members of Volga-Dnepr’s design team. «We organised thiscompetition for those interested in the fu-ture of air transport. For this reason wedidn’t set any age limits. The youngestparticipant was 22 and the oldest 74 yearsold,» according to Artem Aroutynov,describing the company’s motivation.

Lucky winners and happy organisersAccording to the deputy technical direc-tor and head of the design department atVolga-Dnepr, this means that the com-pany has also been able to get to knowmany very talented people and receivedinteresting, complex and incrediblydetailed projects from Russia, Germany(the second prize went to a team based inStuttgart), Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine.«The best of these are really useful designsolutions that can be used in the aviationindustry.»

Alexey Komarov, a graduate of Mos-cow’s Stroganov University of the Artsand Industry, received a special prize forhis concept of a transport aircraft of thefuture (pictured above). The model hedesigned was displayed at Volga-Dnepr’sexhibition stand at the Air TransportForum, and attracted the interest of manyvisitors.

Predictions for the air cargo marketBefore this it had been displayed at aSino-Russian exhibition in the Chinesecity of Harbin, and at Innoprom in Yeka-terinburg, where it had already attractedthe attention of Russian central govern-ment officials.

One of the competition categories askedabout the trends and predictions for theglobal air cargo market. The winner wasa team from the Kharkiv Aviation Insti-tute (Ukraine), led by Professor VasiliyVartanyan. The future engines for heavycargo aircraft category saw NikolayMakarov, a student at Ufa Technical Uni-versity, come out on top.

«When examining each project wetook into account its novelty and origi-

nality, as well as its technical feasibility.We evaluated its efficiency, the degree ofthe technical planning and the potentialfor the design to be realised,» Aroutynovcontinued. «In the Volga-Dnepr designoffice we work to create the concept offuture transport aircraft, and we wouldlike to take this opportunity to expressour thanks to all of the competition’sparticipants.»

Active development work«We have been inspired by the entrants’skills, their enthusiasm as well as theirpro-active approach. We’ll do our best toincorporate the results of their work inVolga-Dnepr’s activities and to integratethem into the design of the cargo aircraftfor the 21st century,» Aroutynov said inclosing. Andreas Haug

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Rickmers-Linie, a Hamburg-based linershipping firm that specialises in break-bulk, heavylift and project cargo acti-vities, has again been selected to transportrailway cranes from Hamburg to Xingang(China) by the Leipzig-based Germancrane producer Kirow. The shipment wasset on its way in August and marked thecontinuation of a long-standing relation-ship between the two enterprises. Thisnew mandate nevertheless represented aspecial consignment, as it contained sixKRC 2880 cranes. 20 more KRC 1680units are due to follow in 2015.

Kirow, which is a part of Kranunion,an association of three crane manufactur-ers, has been a supplier to the Chineserailways for a long time, having delivered

a number of railway cranes for the ex-panding Chinese railway network overthe years. The equipment is used on vari-ous railway lines spread across the entirecountry.

The cranes were transported to theWallmann terminal in the port of Ham-burg on inland barges and by road. Thefreight forwarder Kuehne+Nagel’s Leip-zig and Hamburg offices were in chargeof the forwarding as well as the bookingof the six cranes.

The ocean leg of the journey willsee the Rickmers Singapore carrying theequipment from Hamburg to China. Itis scheduled to arrive in the port of Xin-gang, southeast of Beijing, in late Octo-ber. The Rickmers Singapore is a so-called

super-flex heavylift vessel that was builtin 2002. It can lift up to 640 t and isone of nine identical sister vessels inRickmers-Linie’s round-the-world PearlString service. This key Rickmers optionrotates around the globe in an eastbounddirection, connecting Europe, SoutheastAsia, the Far East and North Americabefore returning to Europe. av

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Same same but differentRickmers-Linie is well acquainted with transporting manufacturer Kirow’s railway

cranes. A recent new contract to ship a total of 26 such units to China was

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Rickmers-Linie is set to ship 26 railway cranes toChina between now and 2015.

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Faymonville scores points with its

customers by offering them the

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The company Nosreti has developed intoone of the leading transport businesses inEastern Europe in the more than 60 yearsin the industry that the enterprise cannow look back on. Nosreti’s head officeis located in Ostrava (Czechia), and thefirm has two more national branches, inBrno and Prague, as well as a further of-fice in Bratislava (Slovakia). As one of theleading players in the field of heavyliftoperations, with extensive and variedexperience, Nosreti recently opted to ac-quire a new vehicle from the broad prod-uct portfolio of the Belgian manufacturerFaymonville.

Ideal for high and heavy unitsWith its local sales partner Isos Trade,Faymonville held a series of meetingswith Nosreti, which resulted in a custom-fit option for the fleet of vehicles oper-ated by Nosreti. The solution arrived atis a three-axled so-called megamax low-bed trailer, with a loading height of only300 mm and a load capacity of 38.7 t.This makes the product ideal for carry-

ing rather high goods. What Nosreti’sexecutive management appreciates mostabout its newly-acquired Faymonvillevehicle is its top quality, its robust andmaintenance-free surface processing (cal-led maxprotect+), as well as a series ofwell thought-out details, which have beendeveloped from an original concept andincluded in the finished product.

Faymonville strives to design and man-ufacture its products with great precisionand in accordance with its customers’requirements. Ales Havlasek, Nosreti’s

transport manager, appreciates the posi-tive project-processing exchange betweenthe two partners, while Faymonville wel-comes the feedback it receives from itscustomers and integrates it in the opti-misation of its products.

The company, having received thenecessary documentation, recently car-ried out its first foreign job with the newtrailer. Nosreti hauled an 8 m long in-dustrial container with a diameter of 4 mfrom Frýdlant nad Ostravicí (Czechia) tothe town of Dzierzoniów(Poland). av

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The TIS Group from St Petersburg, oneof the leading companies in the fields ofheavylift, special and project transportsin Russia, relies on Goldhofer’s modularheavylift trailers in the PST/SL-E-typeseries. The TIS Group ordered a batch ofthree new vehicles from the Goldhofer

enterprise – a six-axled unit and two four-axled vehicles. It was clear to corporatehead Alexander Ivanov that he wouldpersonally take delivery of the three newentrants to his fleet of vehicles from thechairman of the board of Goldhofer, Ste-fan Fuchs. The handover of the vehicles

at Goldhofer’s innovation days in Mem-mingen (Germany) also delighted thefirm’s regional sales manager ChristianLetzner and Peter Schwandner, the man-aging director of TIS’s German partnerSchwandner Transport+Logistik, basedin Pfreimd (Germany).

A ±135° steering angleFor Ivanov, the PST/SL-E-type series isthe perfect truck to haul project cargoand for use in multimodal heavylift andspecial tasks. One of the things that heappreciates about this product is its ma-noeuvrability, thanks to a steering angleof ±135°. He also likes the vehicle’s axleload of up to 45 t, as well as its universaloptions, as it can be combined with Gold-hofer’s THP heavylift modules. av

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In mid-July the first batchof cargo was transhippedto the transport vessel.The oversized pipes witha total weight of 2,500 twere loaded onto two ves-sels that headed for Onneon a direct route. The freeport for the crude oil andgas industry is the first pri-vately-operated gateway inNigeria.

Finishing on site«This transport was a firstfor us,» said Jean-MarcChataignier, the chief ex-ecutive officer of Transprojets, explainingthe situation. He did not simply meanthis first transport, but also the fact thatthe pipes are being directly transportedto a new production premises after beingunloaded by lorry.

Having arrived there they were sheathedin a special material, to be used on a so-called floating production storage andoff-loading platform (FPSO) operated bythe Total Group in the deepsea oil fieldEgina. Christian Doepgen

Pipes for crude oil extraction to Nigeria

A first in OnneNigeria extracts 2.5 million barrels of crude oil every day. The need for

equipment with which the black gold is extracted continues to be strong.

Transprojets, whose head office is in Antony in the southern suburbs of

Paris, recently started transporting pipes to Nigeria for the Total Group.

The demanding cargo is a first, because the pipes are being finished on

site in Africa for the first time.

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In a global comparison Nigeria, with itscrude oil production of 2.49 million bar-rels a day, is in twelfth position, whichcan be called the upper middle rankings.In Africa, however, the country is thecontinental leader with its extraction rate.The French company Transprojets, whosehead office is located in Antony, south ofParis, has now started transferring pipesto Africa for oil extraction for the TotalGroup. The second transport of 4,800 tof pipes on four vessels was initiated earlyin September.

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Renewable energy is a new business fieldfor heavy cargo logistics in the Filipinomarket too. The Caparispisan wind farmin Pagudpud is now having 27 gearlesswind turbine systems delivered, each withrotors with a diameter of 101 m.

The challenge for the heavylift logisti-cian Blue Water Shipping (BWS) lay inthe geography. The terrain around Pagud-pud at the northeastern tip of Luzon isnot just sparsely populated, but also rug-ged. The system components had to bedelivered in a limited time period by over-land and sea routes. The South China Seaalso has a constant risk of tropical storms.

A temporary jetty as a special solutionA special solution was needed to deliverthe sensitive turbines to the hilly region.This was eventually found with theconstruction of a temporary jetty on abeach near the wind farm site. From therethe modules were transported by truckthrough the rough terrain to their finaldestination.

Blue Water, which has many years ofexperience with similar wind projects,

handles trucking, barging operations andcrane off-loading activities at sites. BWShas transported 250 nacelles, towers androtor blades in different ways for the windpower industry. Brian Caffyn, chairmanof UPC Renewables, stated that, despitethe difficult conditions in this secludedarea, «Blue Water definitely exceeded ourexpectations.» Christian Doepgen

Expansion in AsiaSAL Heavy Lift, a subsidiary of the K Linegroup, is expanding. It has bought theMV Calypso and the MV Amoenitas, twonew ships with two cranes each and 450 tlifting capacities, and is strengthening itsSingapore offices too.

Alexander Pötz, the enterprise’s chiefengineer for projects and shipbuilding, ismoving from the Alster in northern Ger-many to the Straits of Malacca. He willlook after the Asia and Australia regionfrom SAL’s headquarters in Singapore.

The background to this appointmentis the increasingly complex technicalbusiness in project and heavylift logis-tics. SAL Heavy Lift, based in Singaporeoperates primarily around the Australiancoast, where new offshore gas facilitiesare being developed. The company isinvolved in major projects such as theIchthys LNG project off the coast ofDarwin, for example, where Total, TokyoGas, Osaka Gas, Chubu Electric andToho Gas are involved, amongst others.

This new appointment highlights thelimitations of modern communicationmethods. Justin Archard, the managingdirector of SAL Heavy Lift in the region,justified the appointment by pointingout that «planning such projects requiresunprecedented and continuous amountswork. It makes much more sense to havesomeone with Pötz’s abilities on the sameoffice floor, rather than having to relyon working with him via e-mail or bytelephone.» cd

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Components are constantly getting big-ger and heavier, especially in the windpower generation industry. Max Bögl, aglobal construction firm headquarteredin the Bavarian village of Sengenthal, be-gan making sections for the hybrid tow-ers of wind energy facilities in RendsburgPort in July, for example. The concreterings for a 107 m tower are divided upinto 32 sections weighing between 25 and45 t – and then loaded directly onto ships.

One round sling weighs 100 kgPicking up these heavy goods safely re-quires special cables, hoisting, sling andload-securing technologies. The special-ist Dolezych is one source of the neces-

sary expertise. It is based in Germany’sRuhr region, where it developed its firstpolyester-based round slings for heavycargo in 1984. What started with a made-to-order consignment with a workingload limit of 30 t has since become a ma-jor business segment for the enterprise.

«From a certain weight upwards, com-ponents cannot be picked up with cablesand chains, which themselves becometoo heavy, and thick, and too unwieldy,»explains company spokesman AlexanderKrosta.

Today the experts work with new ma-terials because, from a certain size up-wards, even polyester is too heavy andbulky. High-performance polyethylene

fibres, for instance, reduce the weight ofa round sling by up to 60%. «The hoistingdevice itself then weighs just 440 insteadof 1,100 kg, which is an enormous advan-tage,» according to Krosta.

Lifting 250 t in tandem«Special applications of this kind are usedhere every day,» Pascal Ledune, the mana-ging director of the Rendsburg Port Au-thority, adds. The hub’s two mobile har-bour cranes can jointly lift up to 250 t – acapability demonstrated in the past withsuch feats as the loading of a 236 t sluicegate. «Working in tandem, they can hoistmore than any other crane in the state ofSchleswig-Holstein. On the Kiel Canal,

Rendsburg Port deploys lifting technology from the Ruhr region

Heavylift is the Champions LeagueHauling heavy goods and project cargo is where the top players in the transport business show what they’re made of. The Dortmund-

based German manufacturer Dolezych specialises in securing loads, attaching, lifting and rope technology. Rendsburg Port, a hub

located on the Kiel Canal, uses the company’s round slings to secure heavy loads.


which extends nearly 100 km betweenBrunsbüttel and Kiel Holtenau, that lifting capacity is unique,» says Ledune.

On-site assemblyManufacturers take advantage of this forstorage, loading and the waterborne transport of cargo on the world’s busiest artificial waterway, which has direct access tointernational sea routes. To avoid escorted shipments of large components on

Germany’s motorways, manufacturingand final assembly can take place rightin the port. Capacity of this kind is verymuch in demand in northern Europe. Inaddition, just 500 m away along a roadthat is capable of carrying heavy loads,there are approximately 80 ha of commercial space available.

This benefits exportdriven companiessuch as Max Bögl, which now also shipsits wind power towers to Marl in the Ruhr

region. «Even the transport from Rendsburg Port to Croatia, for example, wouldbe cheaper by sea than from our base inBavaria,» explains the firm’s coowner,Johann Bögl. Other exporters have cometo the same conclusion. Companies froma diverse range of industries such as refinery technology and mechanical engineering are opting to ship loads from theinland port of Rendsburg.

Focus on wind powerSchleswigHolstein is the leading German state in terms of expanding the nation’s wind energy capacities. In the firsthalf of this year, with the installation of443 MW, it accounted for approximately25% of new windgenerating capacity inthe country. Consequently, it is not uncommon to see a 220 t spool of offshoresea cable with a diameter of 7 m danglingfrom a heavyload hook at RendsburgPort. Over its 75year history Dolezychhas built ever larger production halls andspecial facilities in Dortmund, to be ableto manufacture special new products ofthis kind. And one thing is clear: thistrend will continue. av

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Ruslan International, a joint venture be-tween Antonov Airlines and Volga-DneprAirlines and which operates a fleet of 17Antonov An-124s, transported a com-plete hospital from Turkey to Tangiers(Morocco) recently. It collaborated withthe charter broker Air Partner. The cus-tomer was from the Middle East. Theportable hospital included ten individualmodules, containing a reception area, anx-ray chamber, an operating theatre, adental unit, an intensive care unit, a phar-macy and two electricity generators. Allthe parts were packed into 20 ft contain-

ers, to facilitate their transportation andon-site assembly. The entire shipment,which weighed 44 t, easily fitted into thewide-bodied An-124.

Air Partner and Ruslan often team up«One reason why we selected the An-124was because its on-board crane systemallows trucks to be directly loaded andunloaded, without the need for furtherequipment,» said Emir Ozdabak, AirPartner’s regional manager for Turkey.He added that his company has exten-sive experience of transporting oversized

Ruslan International handles a hospital and mill head

Shipping large consignments around the worldRuslan International, the joint venture between Antonov Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines headquartered at London Stansted airport,

recently carried out two particularly interesting heavylift cargo air shipments. One involved delivering heavy drilling equipment from

Australia to Chile, and the other providing assistance to a Middle Eastern client.

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shipments, and enjoys finding innovativesolutions – often together with Ruslan.

In another project recently undertakenby Ruslan, speed was the most criticalfactor. The head of a ball mill used in aChilean mine was worn out and threaten-ing to slow down the entire productionprocess. A replacement, with a diameterof 4.6 m and weighing 19 t, was sourced inWestern Australia. There the carrier con-cerned, DSV, got in touch with Ruslan.The specialist obtained the necessarypaperwork in just ten days, and a mereeleven days after signing the contract thenew machinery was shipped from Perthacross the Pacific. ah

Large, heavy and essential: the mill head fromAustralia being hauled into the aeroplane.


In the project business – when shippingall kinds of machinery around the world,for instance – the devil is in the details.«We’ve been following the growing project cargo market with great interest overthe past few years, and have now acquiredsome customers in that area too,» saysGünther Jocher, explaining the strategicalignment of Group7. Jocher is the managing director of the company, which isheadquartered in Munich.

Bottlenecks in every projectSome of the growth regions in the machinery project cargo business, according toJocher, include the USA, with its rapidlygrowing oil and gas industry; the BRICcountries; and the states of the PersianGulf region. In connection with theglobal business dealings of its customers,the company also offers cross trades andplaces a special emphasis on extremelythorough risk management. Insurers haveto cover every aspect of the services performed in the scope of complex projects,from pickup to final delivery at a recipient’s location.

The handling teams of a project cargoshipments know all about the fiddlydetails. Packing 36 opentop containersin synch with the dismantling of complexmachinery, which for customs reasonshas to arrive on the same ship; an upwardadjustment of insurance coverage; adapting five traffic islands for a road transport to a port – it is all in a day’s work inthe project business, because every job isplanned individually.

Finding the most efficient solutionSpecial equipment is a key prerequisite.Even in choosing the means of transport,Group7 taps into the full spectrum ofoptions. Road transport with a lowbedtrailer, trains, barges, maritime ships, roro ships, and freighter aircraft – they allcome into play. «Three years ago we evenput three bulk cargo cars on a railwaytrack and attached them to a train, ratherthan transporting them on lowbed vehicles. Our creativity has brought in quitea bit of business,» adds Jocher.

But ultimately, every piece of equipment is only as good as its operator. «We

work out the most efficient solution together, in our project teams. We also involve colleagues from other branches bytelephone, to draw on their experience,»says Nuremberg branch manager VolkerTomandel, describing the approach to hislast project shipment of 13 crates withexcess widths and excess lengths of up to10.2 m from Germany to the USA.

Pan-continental activitiesOver the past two months, Group7 hasshipped hundreds of tonnes of machineryto South America, North America, Asia,and other destinations. The company hadto plan, organise and carry out eight rather large projects which involved no lessthan five branch offices simultaneouslyrecently. Christian Doepgen

Project logistics in the machinery sector

Those fiddly little detailsThe complexity of project cargo is not only underestimated in the mechanical engineering

industry, but often among shippers too. Günther Jocher, from Group7 in Munich, spoke

to the ITJ about time windows, customs, coverage amounts and other challenges.

You need the right equipment as well as expertteams to succeed in the project cargo sector.

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A five-bladed ship’s propeller – weighingmore than 80 t, with a diameter of 9 mand a 42 sqm blade area and made byMecklenburger Metallguss (MMG) – wasquite the eye-catcher at this year’s SMMHamburg, a maritime industry trade fairthat took place from 9 to 12 Septemberthis year. The propeller was installed atthe main entrance to the hall in the weekbefore the fair, using a huge crane anda good bit of effort on the part of theexperts involved. It is right next to thetelevision tower, which itself is a bit of afairground hallmark too.

The propeller was built for E.R. Schif-fahrt. The Hamburg-based shipping firmwill install this new type on 13 of itscontainerships, eight with a 13,100 teucapacity and five with space for 7,850 teu.

For more than 60 years MMG hasbeen making propellers for the shippingindustry in the economically-depressedstate of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,including some of the largest and fastestunits in the world. The heaviest in thefirm’s portfolio tips the scales at 130 t.

These screws can rotate around their ownaxis up to 150,000 times a day. Follow-ing a demanding manufacturing process,around 100 of these shining gems of vari-ous sizes are dispatched from the Warenan der Müritz plant every year. These so-called miracles from Müritz occasionallyslow down traffic on northern Germany’smotorways during delivery. ah

On two marks, get set...Heavylift cargo logistics experts will havethe opportunity to lose some extra poundson two continents simultaneously in earlyOctober, namely in Houston (USA) andCopenhagen (Denmark). Take a breakfrom events at Breakbulk Americas andthe Danish Maritime Days, and perhapsyou will make some new contacts whilstsupporting your health as well as a not-for-profit organisation. The 19th and20th Business Runs are again being orga-nised by Flensborg&Associates.

The ITJ is a media partnerThe ITJ is one of the events’ media part-ners. At this juncture we should point outthe early-morning starting time of therun on 1 October. All runners will meetat the reflecting pool in Hermann Parkin Houston at 7.30, for a 4 or 10 km cir-cuit. The USD 35 participation fee will bedonated to the Texas A&M University’sscholarship fund. The entrance fee for the9 October run is EUR 25. It starts at 15.30from the Kvaesthusbroen pier, oppositethe Royal Danish Playhouse.

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