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Small is beautiful On airfreight reefer transportation 19

Battle of the giants Ports very ambitious in the Middle East 30

Ultra plus Sri Lanka now equipped for ULCVs 40

International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Contents 3

37·38 | 13. September 2013 Deutsche Ausgabe Specials in this issue 5 Editorial HEAVYLIFT / BREAKBULK Heavylift/Breakbulk supplement 6 People&Companies/Job Market Middle East 30 11 Shipping&Ports 11 Freight rates: the «golden week» should help 15 Terminal operators New market leader in Russia 16 Turkmenbashi: New port in Central Asia

19 Aviation 19 In conversation with Markus Scheuber of Swiss International Air Lines 21 Better freight development in July 21 New airfreight hubs in Italy’s Mediterranean queen 13 East and West Africa 22 Freight Forwarding&Logistics The domestic economic situation has not left the 22 Sulser Transport Tarros Group unscathed. Entering new markets, Renovation–innovation–activation such as Portugal or the cross-trade business, 25 E-commerce: DPD takes stake in Tiramizoo enables the group to look to the future 27 Arvato tying up loose supply knots for French opticians with optimism. 28 Rail/Inland Waterways/Road Haulage 28 ECL launches new shuttle service 29 The Rhine is a good connection Worried about Syria 33 30 Middle East Special The situation in Syria remains in turmoil and rep- 30 Container capacities: No harm in competition resents a big challenge for logisticians. Refugees 32 Etihad Rail ready for the green light have to be supplied with the bare necessities, 34 Packaging intercontinental aviation is in danger and aviation 34 Successful US-Kenyan cooperation kerosene costs may shoot up. 35 Movianto offers new secondary packaging

36 Regional Focus 37 Southeast Europe&Turkey Munich–Switzerland 36 38 South Europe 39 North and Latin America The Swiss freight forwarder Streck Transport, from 40 Asia/Pacific Möhlin near Basel (Switzerland), recently started offering daily direct links to and from Munich. A 41 Miscellaneous/Masthead parallel service between Munich and Zurich is also 42 A Time for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index in the pipeline.

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Our Germany Special may only be due improvement. At the same time the in ITJ 41-42/2013, but to mark the transport ministry published a «sliding national elections to the Bundestag, medium-term projection for freight Germany’s lower house of parliament, transport», which predicts excellent on 22 September, it is worth taking growth for the entire cargo transport a look at the country at the heart of sector in 2014, namely a volume im- Europe which is frequently awarded provement of just under 2% and a the unofficial title of «logistics world performance increase of a little less champion». In the weeks leading up to than 3%. We’ll see. the election the predictions were still We’ll only know who will hold the rather uncertain – less the predictions reins in the chancellor’s office and in concerning the results of the election, the transport ministry for the next but rather those addressing the perfor- four years on election night – or in the mance of the national economy. subsequent days. But the news will One poll commissioned by the Ger- certainly be on the table in time for the man chambers of trade and industry publication of our Germany Special on in August found out that the coun- 11 October. try’s exporters would lose world trade market shares in 2013 – and yet still manage to climb back to the position of second-largest exporter worldwide, behind China but once again ahead of the USA. Three weeks later the national statistical office surprised the public with a statement that German exports had declined by 1.1% in July vis-à-vis June – even though the econo- mists had previously predicted a 0.7% www.transportjournal.com Andreas Haug Head of airfreight 6People & Companies International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Europe Eurotunnel welcomes director Philippe de Lagune, who was the French safety coor- dinator for the London 2012 Olympic Games, joined Groupe Eurotunnel on 9 September as safety and ethics New in Stockholm director. Eurotunnel’s new director previously worked as the state’s préfet de police in Corsica, Belfort and in the Blue Water Shipping has opened Gers department in southwestern France, amongst many a second office in Sweden. It is Björn Jensen, Fredrik Pellegrini other state posts. headed by Fredrik Pellegrini, who Photo: Blue Water Shipping reports to Björn Jensen, the company’s general manager in Sweden. The office is near M&M chairman seeks new shores Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden’s largest airport, and about 40 km from the city centre and seaport. Blue Water, Ewald Kaiser,M&M Militzer&Münch which became an Iata-licensed airfreight agent in Swe- International Holding’s CEO and dele- den this year, has been represented there since 2007. gate of the board of directors since 2008, has resigned. His work will be carried out ad interim by CFO Alexei Kovalenko. TNT Express banking on networks Kaiser, who drove expansion in the Eura- sia region and in North Africa, chose to Martin Sodergard will join TNT Express as the group leave M&M to take up new professional director of global networks on 1November, as part of challenges. Werner Albert, president of management reorganisation measures. Sodergard previ- the Transinvest Holding, thanked Kaiser ously worked as senior vice-president of Swissport Global for his dedication to the company. Ralf Cargo (see ITJ 23-24/2012, page 7). He began his career Teckentrup will be the new chairman at DHL in 1986 and was then general manager of DHL of the board. He is a board member of Aviation in Belgium, director of hubs and gateways in Ewald Kaiser Thomas Cook and CEO of the airline Europe and MD of DHL Express Nordic. Photo: M&M Militzer & Münch Condor Flugdienst.

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Payot for Swissport Geneva Second managing director installed

Swissport International, a provider of On 1 September Bernd Robke became the second man- ground and cargo services to the avia- aging director of the German firm Güll, a joint venture tion sector, appointed Jean-Luc Payot as between Deutsche Post DHL and Burda Direkt Services. the new CEO of Swissport Geneva on 1 Together with the long-serving senior managing director September. Payot took over from Michel Ernst G. Wallaschek, Robke will manage the marketing Glorieux, who left Swissport at the end and sales sectors of the provider of press services, sub- of August. Payot already worked for Swis- scription management and e-commerce options based in sport from 1993 to 2001, and rose to the German city of Lindau on Lake Constance. The new be general manager and vice-president Jean-Luc Payot director formerly spent nine years working for Arvato, of business development for Swissport Photo: Swissport a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, in Germany, France and France, as well as CEO of executive avia- Great Britain. Güll is a specialised service provider for tion. Before returning to Swissport Payot was managing publishers. It manages around 1.3 million subscriptions director of Bell Switzerland (since 2004). and regularly dispatches more than 1,000 publications to domestic and international destinations. Graf the boss in Maria Lanzendorf New Asco head of finance The Austrian transport and logistics provider Ge- brüder Weiss has entrusted Wolfgang Graf with the Asco has appointed Marianne Lipp as leadership of its air and sea freight division at the Maria finance manager. Lipp, who joined the Lanzendorf office at Vienna airport. Graf will manage firm on 2 September, is based in Aber- business at the Vienna office and report directly to deen (Scotland) and is in charge of the Michael Büchele, GW’s general manager air and sea for financial management of the group, Central and Eastern Europe. Graf obtained an MBA an oilfield services supporter. She will in logistics and supply chain management (day-release also have roles in planning, merger and course) from Danube University Krems (Austria). At acquisitions and investment. Lipp pre- earlier stages of his career Graf was GW’s sea freight viously worked with Deloitte, before manager in Innsbruck, Graz and New York, where he moving to KPMG in Aberdeen, where garnered a wealth of knowledge about the company’s Marianne Lipp she was latterly director of transaction network. Photo: Asco services.

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Werner Hermann, Davor Sertic Those of us whose professional roles Intercontor award Photo: Intercontor require us to deal with the big wide – and occasionally complex – world of logis Austria’s Logistics Intelligence Forum assembled to dis- tics on a daily basis inevitably have to cuss «international added value through logistics» at the confront the language that shapes our Vienna chamber of commerce’s premises in Vienna. The world at regular intervals. Logistics not forum’s representative Davor Sertic, managing director only manages the global flow of goods, it of Unit Cargo, presented Werner Hermann with a life- is also – partially as a result of its global Robert time achievement award at the event, an honour granted nature – itself in a constant state of flux. Altermatt to people who give an outstanding performance in the And with it the language and termino ITJ editor field of ethics and employee promotion in the logis- logy that we use every day changes too. tics industry. Hermann is the managing director of the Ten years ago – I still remember it well – interviewers Athens-based Greek firm Intercontor. liked to illustrate the trade’s attraction by habitually using the adjective «sexy» when talking to logistics managers. «The logistics industry is sexy,» or even «our services are New Via Bremen MD from 2014 pretty sexy,» are examples of such excrescences that you will also have read in the ITJ a few years ago. In the Via Bremen has represented the port and logistics industry meantime sexy, which for a short time became an inherent in the German federal state of Bremen since April 2011. Uwe element of many a logistics manager’s vocabulary, has Will is set to become its new managing director on 1 January happily almost completely disappeared again from trade 2014. Will is in charge of international projects at Bremen- publications. Many English logistics expressions have not exited left, Changes of address however. 3PL, 4PL, green logistics, justintime services, outsourcing, insourcing, big data – they all remain omni Vienna University of Economics and Business present. English terminology plays an important role in Institute for Transport and Logistics Management the logistics language of many nonanglophone countries Welthandelsplatz 1, AT-1020 Vienna across the world – for example in the Germanspeaking Telephone +43 (0) 1 31336 0, Fax +43 (0) 1 31336 716 world, where the hybrid language is called «Denglisch». www.wu-wien.ac.at/itl This is partially down to the pioneering role of Anglo Americans in the development of logistics, and also to the Transcamion Schifffahrtsagentur international nature of the industry, in which English is Bodenseestrasse 29 frequently the only language that protagonists may have in DE-81241 Munich-Pasing common. Fashionable terms, such as sexy logistics, come Telephone +49 (0)89 896073 0, Fax +49 (0) 89 821130 4 and go. My gripe is with English expressions that water www.transcamion.com down proven and perfectly clear native descriptions...

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HR services for the transport and logistics industry Headhunting in a niche

In a differentiated sector such as logistics, finding distinguished experts is not always an easy task. At the French company Turnpoint the three Raynal family members, father Pierre and sons Cyrill and François, have specialised in finding suitable candidates for vacant positions on behalf of their customers. The two Raynal brothers spoke to ITJ editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen.

What prompted you to establish an HR office as a family-run company? The activities of our father, who initially worked for Kuehne +Nagel in France, Egypt and in Ivory Coast, and later for Frans Maas in Europe from 1984 to 1997, establishing the road haulage and contract logistics areas, were the cradle of the company. But we also gained in- sights into the world of logistics. François worked in the area of contract logistics, amongst other things, working for ID Lo- gistics in Shanghai from 2005 to 2011, t in

and Cyrill, was employed by Ziegler, rnpo Norbert Dentressangle, Panalpina and Tu o: ot

Geodis, amongst others. Ph Two generations are active in Turnpoint. The two sons François and Cyrill work with their father Since when has Turnpoint France been Pierre Raynal in HR services. an independent unit? Turnpoint was originally a company for freight forwarding or maritime shipping. What type of employee matches the mergers and acquisitions based in the Turnpoint can offer language skills in profile or is preferred most? Netherlands. But in 2003 the sharehold- English, German, French and Mandarin. We are seeing a return to the origins. ers went separate ways, meaning that we’ll Entrepreneurs and developers are in de- be celebrating our company’s tenth anni- In what regions do you see particularly mand, general or corporate managers are versary this year. In addition to the origi- strong demand? less sought after. Our customers are gen- nal M&A activities, as a part of which We’ve observed strong demand for Asia. erous when it comes to questions of char- we accompanied projects in the United We’ve handled three mandates in China acter and temperament of candidates, if Kingdom, in the Benelux countries and ourselves, with candidates on site or with the quick assignment to a new task can be Japan, amongst others, we’ve increasingly Chinese nationals who grew up outside achieved, with fast productivity. positioned ourselves as an HR services their country. Expatriates are expensive. provider since 2009. But Brazil is also becoming stronger again What is the French market like? as is Africa, partially on account of the It’s not an easy place today for transport How many mandates do you manage in historic links to France, of course. The and logistics players, where management the HR area on average? interest is in the Maghreb and the Ivory expertise in restructuring measures and There are seasonal fluctuations, of course, Coast or Angola, for example. external growth are required. Candidates but this year we’ll process about 60 dossi- with MBAs from foreign colleges or ex- ers, and are thus looking confidently to What skills are companies looking for perience in international supply chain 2014. In the HR area, about 60% of our in particular? management have a head start here. headhunting is for managers and about As a rule, this depends on the strategy 40% for specialists. of the company concerned. However, You also believe in the benefits of in- we’ve observed a higher level of interest ternational networks. What nationality are your customers in candidates with technical knowledge, Yes, we’ve been part of Adiconsult, a net- and candidates? amongst other things, in IT and with work of 56 staff placement agencies in 32 We work predominantly for French com- know-how in financial controlling. In countries, since 2010. As a French repre- panies, including the three biggest in the general, there is a trend towards hiring sentative we’re very satisfied with our col- logistics and transport areas. About 10% experts from niche areas. Our customers laboration with partners in the alliance, of our customers come from the freight have become more flexible on questions and consider it to be a suitable multiplier forwarding area. Approximately one third about age, for instance. They are no long- of our own efforts. of the staff placed by us is intended for er simply looking for people in the age www.turnpoint.fr international assignments, in logistics, group from 38 to 45. www.adiconsult.com International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Shipping & Ports 11

The current spot rates have a significant influence on the outcome of contract rate stock negotiations for the Asia–Europe trade ink th

: in 2014, which for many shippers in the to trade will be taking place in the fourth Pho Container lines expect demand to rise before Chinese national holidays in October. quarter, Drewry continued. The lines are running out of time to Freight rate developments remain interesting establish better freight rates. The Ger- man line Hapag-Lloyd has announced a rate increase for the Far East–Northern The «golden week» should help Europe/Mediterranean trade amounting to USD500 per teu with effect from The market has not accepted the rate increases for the Far East–Northern 23September. Europe/Mediterranean trade. Lines are planning to have another go just Others will surely follow. The timing is good. There may be a small demand before Chinese national holidays starting in October. spike just before national holidays in China starting at the end of September, A number of box shipping lines had an- balance sheets, the analyst said, as the as many factories are closed in the so- nounced price increases of USD445–500 second quarter financial results showed called golden week. per teu in the Far East–Northern Europe/ mixed levels of profitability. The analyst The consistent pressure on the rates Mediterranean trade for 1September. The makes the economies of scale offered by English analyst Drewry has commented Maersk Line’s 18,000teu Triple-E vessels that the raises have, however, apparently so great that few can ignore them. Drewry not been accepted by the market. Thus estimates the IFO bunker costs of these on 5 September the World Container In- units to be 35% lower than for a typi- dex (WCI) for the Shanghai–Rotterdam We think globally forsmooth logistics. cal 13,100teu vessel, based on a Triple-E route, for example, rose by a mere USD 18 ship’s assumed consumption of 164t of over the previous week, coming to 2,498 fuel a day. More orders for the giants of USD per 40ft container. Alphaliner said that only five of the 19 the seas are thus likely. Many carriers must have hoped that largest container shipping lines had post- price rises towards the end of the peak ed positive operating results for the first www.alphaliner.com season would help to shore up their half of the year. www.drewry.co.uk

Le Havre wants to grow Suez Canal incident In brief Budget approved in California. The Long The Grand Port Maritime du Havre The Cosco Asia was attacked with portable Beach city council has approved the port (GPMH), a state-owned public entity anti-tank rocket launchers by presumed of Long Beach’s USD1.02billion budget for which runs the port of Le Havre (a mem- terrorists in the Suez Canal (Egypt) at the fiscal 2014, allowing the port to forge ahead ber of the Haropa alliance), has issued a end of August. The Suez Canal operating with a modernisation programme with public invitation to tender for two new authority said that it believed that the at- upgrades of terminals, roads and bridges. To container terminals in its Port 2000 area. tack on the Panama-flagged vessel in the keep up with competition expected to arise It expects the tender winner to con- canal was designed to close the important on account of the expansion of the Panama struct a 700m maritime quay that can shipping link for trade. Canal the Californian port has launched offer a guaranteed depth of water of The officials involved said that the gre- a USD 4 billion capital improvement pro 17 m. The new facilities will thus be deep nades had bounced off the ship’s hull and gramme this decade. Its fiscal year starts on enough for ULCVs. The planned new caused no damage, whilst other sources 1October. www.polb.com terminals are bordered by land covering mentioned two smaller explosions on Brazilian opening. The Brasil Terminal Por about 36 ha in an enclosed area shared board. The Chinese shipping line Cosco, tuario facility handled its first liner vessels in by the Port 2000’s three other container in whose service the vessel was sailing, August, when the 2,600 teu «MSC Challen terminals, and managed by the GPMH. had not commented yet at the time this ger» (deployed in MSC’s Gulf service) and These areas will be connected to the rail, issue of the ITJ went to press. It said it the 5,700 teu «MSC Adriatic» (sails in the river and road networks linking the port would comment as soon as the Cosco Asia Ipanema service) called at the terminal in to the hinterland. The deadline for the reaches its next destination (Hamburg, the port of Santos. The facility has been submission of bids is on 1 October. Le on 9 September). ready to handle vessels since March. Its Havre and its partners in the Haropa alli- Shipping lines and analysts have been operating licences were only issued in July, ance, the inland ports of Paris and Rouen, speculating for months what impact the however. Some dredging activities are out are aiming to become one of Western latest Egyptian unrest may have on mer- standing, but are expected to be completed Europe’s key strategic port complexes.av chant shipping. av by October. www.braporto.com.br www.havre-port.fr www.cosco.com ... wir lieben neue Wege ! NVOCC Services JAHRE www.saco.de worldwide

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A line with a long tradition Tarros charting uncharted seas

Italy’s Tarros Group has not been left unscathed by the economic downturn affecting its home country. By entering new markets, such as Portugal or the cross-trade business, the firm has nevertheless managed to weather the stormy seas and is looking positively to the future.

The prevailing business environment is not exactly rosy for an Italian enterprise whose main activities focus on the coun- os

tries lining the Mediterranean. The Tarros rr Ta

Group, however, has been in business for : to far too long to be perturbed by some Pho strong headwinds. Tarros believes that cross-trades between Mediterranean countries offer great potential. Tarros is in the process of opening an agency of its own in Portugal, to enable imbalanced trade flows. Tarros believes economic environment in Italy, specifi- it to satisfactorily manage the growing that improved equipment management cally, has prompted Tarros to increasingly volumes registered in the Iberian country currently offers the greatest potential to bank on cross-trading activities. Traffic through a local presence of its own. «It achieving better margins in the container between Turkey and other Mediterranean is very important for us – as a relatively shipping industry. regions is particularly interesting for the small enterprise – to have a permanent It is more difficult to prosper in the company in this context. presence in those countries where we have line’s home market of Italy these days. business, and to simultaneously establish The central Mediterranean country is Cross-trade an important segment good connections to the hinterland», Gio- This orientation led Tarros to take over vanni Bandini, the Tarros line’s sales and capacity from Turkey’s Arkas Line last marketing manager, explains. The compa- year. «The region is one of the most prom- ny’s partner in the new agency in Portugal ising business areas for us,» Bandini told is Tarros’ previous agent, Horizon View. the ITJ. «Turkey is gaining an ever-greater Qualityisnot acoincidence, it’s what we do. share of trade to and from North Africa.» Strategically good location Tarros recently added a link between Tur- Bandini openly admits that this is cer- key and Libya to its network. «That will tainly a difficult moment for a new office struggling with even more difficult po- not have been the last new connection we in the country. «We have been pursuing litical and economic circumstances than will be offering our customers in the near this project for quite a while now, and be- Portugal. future,» Bandini closes. av lieve that the time has come to let deeds Over and above this, the conditions for www.tarros.it follow plans. The economic situation is business in some of Tarros’ other impor- not very good, it is true – but bad times tant trading regions, such as Egypt, are Tarros in brief do often give way to good times again,» is anything but easy. «We remain convinced Bandini’s optimistic conclusion. that the economy will nevertheless devel- The Tarros line was set up in 1828. Since Portugal is an important geographic op very strongly there. Getting back to a 1963 it has operated under the name of focus for Tarros. Though imports there high level of trade is a process, however, Tarros Spa. It offers various multimodal have declined as a result of the eco- and that will start again in the future,» transport options and owns ships, trucks and nomic and financial crisis, the volume according to Bandini. trailers, containers and terminals in the hin- of exports rose to 6.8milliont in 2012, Turkey, in contrast, offers the line terland and in the Italian maritime port of La 27 % more than in the previous year. quite different prospects. Though it is Spezia. Furthermore, it is active as an agent This means there is extensive demand true that at 2.1% the country’s economic for shipping lines. Tarros connects more for empty containers, which Tarros can, growth was poorer last year than in the than 30 ports located in 15 Mediterranean countries. It has about 530 employees on its in turn, bring in from nearby Morocco, previous years (see also ITJ 35-36/2013, books and generated sales worth approxi- where an excess of imports in relation page41), Tarros says that it has no cause mately EUR 129 million in 2012. to exports contributes to evening out for complaint there. The rather difficult It’s in ourcharacter

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Terminal operators in Russia The new market leader

The projections for the volume of containers handled in Russia are good. Reason enough for Global Ports, the country’s second-largest terminal operator, to take over NCC. C NC : to Global Ports Investments is acquiring 100% of the Pho NCC Group, and its subsidiaries. Global Ports paid The First Container Terminal in St Petersburg is Russia’s largest terminal. USD291million (EUR222million), plus new shares rep- resenting around 18% of its enlarged share capital. The move has made Global Ports Russia’s largest terminal Privatisation of Piraeus almost done operator, with annual capacities of about 3.5milliont. NCC’s box terminals are located in the Baltic Sea, the The Chinese shipping conglomerate Cosco Holdings is set to invest most important gateway for containerised cargo to and about EUR 230 million in the expansion of the port of Piraeus, raising from Russia. NCC owns 100% of St Petersburg’s First the capacity of Greece’s largest port by 75% to 6.2 million teu annually. Container Terminal (FCT), 80% of the Ust-Luga Con- Cosco will be exempt from paying fees to the port authority OLP in tainer Terminal (ULCT) and 100% of the Logistika ter- return for its investment, thus paving the way for the long-awaited sale minal (LT), an inland centre near St Petersburg. of two thirds of the shares in the container port to the Chinese group. The NCC Group’s marine terminals’ annual contain- The privatisation of some state-owned Greek firms should flush some er handling capacity at the end of 2012 stood at approxi- funds into state coffers, which will help pay off a part of the country’s mately 1.69 million teu. The group’s inland container fa- increasing debts (see also ITJ 35-36/2013, page 41). av cility has a capacity of 200,000 teu. The holding’s marine www.cosco.com container terminals registered a gross box throughput of approximately 1.07millionteu in 2012, a decrease of 9% from the 1.17 million recorded in 2011. The level of containerisation in Russia – 41 teu per capita – is not very high compared to other countries. In Turkey it comes to 93, for example, in the USA it stands at 132 and in the EU it amounts to 168. APM Terminals became the main owner of Global Ports when it bought a 37.5% stake last year. av Euro-Med Services www.globalports.com TRANSPORT OF ANY TYPE OF VEHICLE, EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT, FORESTRYPRODUCTS, STANDARDAND SPECIAL CONTAINERS, PROJECT AND HEAVY LIFT CARGO

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Launch of new hub in the Caspian Sea New Central Asian port i

The port of Turkmenbashi (Turkmenistan) is set to undergo major nbash me rk

expansion. In addition to the export of oil and gas the government Tu of is particularly aiming to boost the export of textiles. rt po / ca ace Europe and Asia are set to benefit from improved connections. The Tr C IG

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expand the port of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea into one of the Pho region’s major hubs, thereby particularly targeting European exports via The new port of Turkmenbashi is due to be ready by 2017. the Traceca corridor (transport corridor Europe–Caucasus–Asia) to the Middle East. A total of approximately USD2billion (EUR1.5billion) Turkmen president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, and is expected to be invested in the new port, with a significant number Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an- of Turkish companies involved in its construction.A total of four ter- nounced their intention to work hand-in-hand in the minals are planned, covering a total area of 1.2millionsqm, which will Caspian Sea in future. Turkmenistan has already been be used for the transhipment of oil, gas and containers, as well as for one of Turkey’s strong partners for a long time. Accord- passenger ships. ing to local media, the two countries signed declara- The importance of this project for both Turkmenistan and Turkey tions of intent for new projects worth approximately was demonstrated during a ceremony held in Turkmenbashi when the EUR4.2billion in the first six months of 2013 alone. Turkmenistan is one of the most important countries for the export of gas. In addition, the country is also a major producer of cotton, and therefore hopes that the completion of the port in 2017 will support future textiles exports. Whilst the annual throughput volume in Turkmenbashi is currently 10 milliont, this is expected to increase to 25milliont by 2020.

Diversification after independence Since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union, Turkmenistan has invested heavily in the expansion of its infrastructure, particularly for cotton production, and therefore diversified its exports. The new port and the adjacent industrial zone are expected to attract fresh capital to the region, whilst also complementing the new rail service between the eastern Turkish city of Kars, the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and Baku in Azerbaijan (see ITJ 35-36/2013, pages 30–31). Antje Veregge www.turkmenmaritime.gov.tm

Karachi driving ICTSI growth

The Filipino firm International Container Terminal Ser- vices Inc (ICTSI) reported a 20% increase in port operation revenues, to USD414million (EUR309million), for H1/2013, in comparison with the same period in the previous year. Container volumes rose by 12% to about 3millionteu. The firm’s ebitda came in at EUR140mil- lion, 26% more than in H1/2012. ICTSI said that the news was partially down to the contribution of a new terminal in Karachi (Pakistan). www.ictsi.com International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Shipping & Ports 17

The terminal operator industry Focusing on growth markets

The business of handling containers is dominated by four structuring their portfolios. HPH, in contrast, is more moderate, and large players. The good prospects for the industry are also PSA is even more conservative in its approach. What all of the firms have in common, however, is a clear focus on growth opportunities in increasingly attracting new market entrants, however. emerging markets, such as in Africa or Asia (see JNPT article below). Drewry assumes that the number of mergers and takeovers of con- The English analyst Drewry has predicted good times for tainer terminals will increase further in the foreseeable future and that the container terminal business in the next few years (see new market players such as China Merchants, Gulftainer or Bolloré will also ITJ 35-36/2013, page 13). Some shipping lines have continue to strengthen their activities. www.drewry.co.uk nevertheless withdrawn from the sector in the recent past, as the crisis affecting liner shipping activities has Top 10 global terminal operators led companies to sell stakes in terminals to raise addi- Rank Operator Million teu Share of global tional capital. CMA CGM entered into a deal involving throughput its subsidiary Terminal Link, for example, and MSC’s 1 PSA International 50.9 8.2% divestment in TIL was also significant. 2 Hutchison Port Holdings 44.8 7.2% This leaves four large players who dominate the 3 APM Terminals 33.7 5.4% global container handling industry. They are PSA 4 DP World 33.4 5.4% International, based in Singapore, Hutchison Port Hold- 5 Cosco Group 17.0 2.7% ings, from Hong Kong, APM Terminals, headquartered 6 Terminal Investment Limited 13.5 2.2% in the Netherlands, and Dubai-based DP World, from 7 China Shipping Terminal Development 8.6 1.4% the United Arab Emirates. DP World and APM Termi- 8 Hanjin 7.8 1.3% nals are both very active when it comes to developing 9 Evergreen 7.5 1.2% new projects, taking over existing terminals or even re- 10 Eurogate 6.5 1.0%

Fourth terminal for JNPT

Interest in winning the operator’s licence for the fourth terminal in the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in networking. Nhava Sheva (India) is increasing. Local sources have stated that by the deadline for applications on 19 August, the number of bids submitted for the job had increased to eight. They are Adani Ports (India), TIL (Nether- If youhave to deal with lands), Essar Ports (India), DP World (United Arab Emi- internationalcontainer shipping,choose the rates), APM Terminals (Netherlands), PSA International terminaloperatorwho (Singapore), JM Baxi & Company (India) and Sterlite is connectedtoall main Ports (India). PSA won a deal to establish the fourth European seaports. terminal with a planned capacity of 4.8millionteu last We areafamily owned year, but in the end JNPT withdrew its agreement. DP enterprise,standing World, however, was awarded the concession to operate fortypically Swiss a JNPT container terminal with a capacity of 800,000teu values:efficiency, in 2012, which is due to be completed by 2015. av precision, cleanness and www.jnport.com priceconsciousness.

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In conversation with Swiss International Air Lines’ Markus Scheuber Reefer transport: small is beautiful

For two years Markus Scheuber has been in charge of time-critical and temperature-sensitive consignments as the manager of the Swiss X-Presso and Swiss °Celsius services of Swiss World Cargo, the freight division of Swiss International Air Lines. He took time out to tell the ITJ’s Andreas Haug what the crucial factors are in the air transportation of pharmaceutical products, and how his company is positioned.

Mr Scheuber, the volume of goods in Zurich is our hub and thus perfectly your field is small, in contrast to the equipped, but of course the pharmaceu- high value of the goods carried. How ticals stronghold Basel, where a new ter- valuable are individual consignments? minal is now being built in the airport, is The price tag attached to individual ship- als very good. But we haven’t reached our ments in the pharmaceuticals segment goals yet in a few fields, for example in varies greatly. It starts at EUR2,000 or tarmac transport or in real-time electronic 3,000 and can rise to several million tracking and tracing. But we’re conduct- euros, depending on the origin and type ing some tests in the third quarter. of goods. We’re also very active in the generic medical products field, where the What is key to your success? price of the goods is not necessarily so It’s important for us to sit down at a high, but the volume is much larger. table with all of the parties involved in

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Swiss World Cargo. What is the under- dr ment’s special requirements. Yesterday a lying reason for your dual role? An partner explained a very complex reefer o: Passive reefer freight can be shipped both ot transport job to me. The packages have to Ph as general cargo and as an express ship- Swiss World Cargo’s Markus Scheuber. be stored in the 2–8°C temperature range ment. Many customers make use of the when they are brought to us, say in Zu- latter option. So customers are free to Which other routes generate strong rich, but have to be delivered in Delhi at chose flexibly. Flexibility, quality and sales figures? Or to put it differently, temperatures between 15 and 25°C. It’s experience are the decisive factors in this where is Swiss set to land and transport important to know such crucial details, segment. Even if our network isn’t as big pharmaceuticals? then we can inform our customer what’s as that of some of our major competitors, We’ll start serving Kiev with a daily link possible and what isn’t and perhaps adjust such as KLM and Emirates, these factors on 27 October. This is an interesting mar- our processes accordingly. enable us to keep abreast of larger play- ket for smaller passive consignments. ers – as well as of new entrants to the Thank you for this talk, Mr Scheuber. industry. What other destinations would you like to see in your network? The active and passive cool chain Swiss resumed services to Singapore, [Laughs] Mexico or Santiago de Chile... an important pharmaceuticals station, In South America, in particular, there is Swiss World Cargo offers a broad range of in May. How has business there been a whole series of interesting destinations, cool chain options. «We were one of the first in the last few months? as there is in India, with Hyderabad and airlines to market the active transportation I was very happy that Swiss decided to Bangalore worth mentioning.I think we of pharmaceuticals in Envirotainer units,» serve Singapore directly again. We were cover most of the important markets and Scheuber reminded us. Besides cooperating frequently asked about services by cus- are rather well-positioned overall. with this market leader Swiss also does busi- tomers from the pharmaceuticals in- ness with the firm C-Safe, ordering a certain dustry, who needed active containers, What about synergies with Lufthansa? percentage of units there, and also has the amongst other things. Well, basically we’re independent within opportunity to make use of Lufthansa’s Opti- coolers (see also ITJ 01-04/2012, page 42). In Sats, Swiss International Air Lines the group. But working groups meet regu- In March Swiss launched its new °Celsius has a top-class and experienced handling larly to establish the potential for syner- passive option, which cover most customer partner in Singapore who shares our qual- gies.Inthe fieldof temperature-controlled requests worldwide. «This was previously ity standards. I’ll be flying there myself shipments our collaboration works very already part of our range, but we’ve now soon, to train our colleagues in the re- well. For example if a customer prefers unified the processes, which makes bookings quirements of our Swiss °Celsius service to use Opticoolers or Unicoolers on Swiss easier for clients,» according to Scheuber. and to analyse processes in detail. Then flights, then that’s entirely feasible. He knows how important the segment is for we’ll also start exporting active products Swiss and its strong home market. from Singapore. We started very well Mr Scheuber, please tell us about your www.swissworldcargo.com there with imports. infrastructure in Switzerland.

International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Aviation 21 July throughput confirms favourable cargo development in Europe – partially In July this year 1.2% more cargo was burg-Kaltenkirchen airport programme than building a new centre, the plan handled at European airports than in that has been around for a while now. The is now official that existing airports in the like-for-like period last year. Practi- project, to the north of the largest port northern Germany should work together. cally none of this helped the four leading city in Germany, was initiated 50 years Along with Hamburg, this includes the airports, however, as their cargo quanti- ago, but never got beyond the planning international airports in Bremen (40t, ties actually declined. The developments stage. It was considered a viable option to –26%) and Hanover (269 t, –12%) ah amongst the chasing pack was more com- replace Fuhlsbüttel airport, located in the www.airport.de petitive, in contrast. The Istanbul and city. Fuhlsbüttel handled 2,517 t of cargo www.airport-bremen.de Leipzig/Halle hubs were particularly suc- in July, an increase of 5.1%. So, rather www.hannover-airport.de cessful again, with the Luxembourg centre also remaining on an upward curve. Freight throughput at leading European airports in July 2013 Milan grew almost as strongly, and even Rank (July 2012) Airport Country Airfreight in t ±% Liège achieved some growth. 1 (1) Frankfurt DE 170,406 –0.8 2 (2) Paris CDG FR 165,000 –5.3 Neutral transfer and development 3 (3) Amsterdam NL 124,515 –1.7 Fraport, the operator of Frankfurt airport 4 (4) London LHR GB 118,963 –6.0 – the clear leader in Germany and in Eu- 5 (5) Leipzig/Halle DE 74,360 +4.6 rope too – opened a new fully-automated 6 (6) Cologne/Bonn DE 62,049 –1.5 loading terminal at the end of August. Its 7 (7) Luxembourg LU 58,099 +8.7 Cargo City South facility has a modern 8 (8) Istanbul IST TR 54,484 +15.7 and enlarged access to the security-con- 9 (9) Liège BE 47,359 +1.7 trolled apron for freight handlers who do 10 (10) Milan MXP IT 39,697 +8.0 V AD

not have their own transfer area directly , Freight throughput at Swiss airports in July 2013 pe

on the apron. ro Meanwhile, five northern German 1 (1) Zurich CH 24,934 +4.2 transport ministers have agreed that they 2 (2) Geneva CH 3,864 ±0.0 : ACI Eu ce will no longer pursue the major Ham- 3 (3) Basel CH 3,327 –3.0 ur So

New cargo hubs in Latam not letting itself In brief Immaculate. Five out of 29 German air- East and West Africa be blown off course ports analysed in 2012 had no security lacunae of any sort, according to the pilot Ethiopian Cargo, the freight division The Latin American Latam Airlines trade union Vereinigung Cockpit. They were of East Africa’s Ethiopian Airlines, Group is under attack in Brazil and Ar- Berlin Schönefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipzig/Halle, opened its second cargo hub in Africa gentina. First, the Argentinian govern- Munich and Stuttgart. www.vcockpit.de this month. The nodal point was cre- ment tried to force Chile’s LAN from Partnership problems. The withdrawal ated in Lomé (Togo), the base of West the capital city Buenos Aires’ smaller from Yangtze River Express of the Taiwanese Africa’s Asky Airlines, which has already airport, Jorge Newbery. The pretext was minority shareholders, including China Air- concluded a partnership with Ethiopian that it would in future only be open to lines, has left China’s HNA Group as the sole for passenger traffic operations. Now the national airlines, but this was not upheld owner of the full-freighter operator. In other two firms want to facilitate the transpor- by an Argentinian court. news, Capital Airlines and Okay Airways, tation of high-value and perishable goods The Brazilian anti-monopoly authori- which are also part of the HNA Group, have to and from West and Central Africa. ties, on the other hand, prevailed in applied to carry out international flights. In the meantime, Saudi Airlines Cargo court. It accused four airlines of unlaw- www.yzr.com.cn; www.okair.net has announced the revival of its platform ful price fixing in their air cargo business in Nairobi (Kenya) and the extension of between 2003 and 2005, and has now Partnership flourishing. The air transport its network in sub-Saharan Africa. Hav- fined them. Alitalia (fined the equivalent group Czech Aeroholding, which is 100% ing increased the frequency of flights of USD4.6million), American Airlines owned by Czechia, its subsidiary Prague between Jeddah and Lagos (Nigeria) in (USD11 million), Variglog (which went Airport and the South Korea’s Incheon inter- March this year, Saudia Cargo now runs bankrupt in 2012, USD61.3million) as national airport corporation have agreed to five scheduled full-cargo flights a week well as TAM Cargo (which belongs to a cooperation deal. The Prague and Seoul with a capacity of 400t to East Africa, the Latam group, USD48.2million). In airport operators, which have moved closer from where 23 more destinations can be other news, LAN Colombia made the together on account of the recent takeover of Czech Airlines by Korean Air, are planning reached. first commercial flight with second-gen- to exchange information and experiences in ah eration bio-fuel in August. future. www.prg.aero www.ethiopianairlines.com www.lancargo.com www.airport.kr www.saudiacargo.com www.aa2000.com.ar; www.cade.gov.br 22 Forwarding & Logistics International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

Sulser expanding its logistics division Renovation -innovation -activation

Sulser Transport and Sulser Logistics Solutions are in transition. The comprehensive renovation of the Brunegg logistics centre will be completed by early 2014, and the companies are also building up several new business sectors. After his first 150 days as the new managing director Oliver Lindenberger spoke to ITJ editor-in-chief Christian Doepgen about current and planned activities at Sulser.

Mr Lindenberger, congratulations on can order directly through your appointment as managing director our ERP system. In 95% of on 1 April. How are you settling in after the cases Sulser Transport oup the first five months? guarantees delivery the fol- er Gr There is an open community spirit and lowing morning. Suls n:

a positive forward-looking dynamic. I’m atio is

enjoying my job, and the large project that So you’ve moved into sual we’ve undertaken to modernise our logis- light manufacturing vi 3D tics centre offers an exciting challenge. here, as you have for the Sulser’s Brunegg centre is being renewed. The company is set to computer sector. Other develop its high-bay warehouse there, located at the intersection Sulser has special expertise in spare companies are frequent- of three motorways, and also extend its offerings for the IT indus- parts logistics for the automobile in- ly reluctant to take this try, including a WMS solution based on its own software. dustry. How do you reconcile the con- step. Sulser Logistics So- flicting demands of providing as wide a lutions, for example, carries out packag- A new logistics centre is coming up at range of products as possible and deliv- ing and processing of electrical equip- your Brunegg headquarters. What kind ering parcels to the right destination in ment to Swiss standards. How exactly of opportunities do you expect there? the shortest possible time? is this done? Our future strength will be in having the I don’t see them as conflicting demands, Computers and notebooks imported capability to offer more diverse services. at most there is a balance to be achieved from Asia, for example, are altered to Our 8,500 pallet slots, which offer 1.2t between service quality and costs. Tire suit Swiss norms in a defined workflow of carrying capacity per slot, are all be- Service, our complex logistics project process. We replace cables or include in- ing renovated. In addition to import into for Renault and Nissan, for example, is stallation software. These are specialised and delivery in Switzerland we’ll also be about tackling production and logistics activities that can only be carried out by in a position to pick and pack goods (for challenges. We store, assemble, provision specially-trained personnel. We also offer example by adding articles such as instruc- and deliver 70,000 complete winter wheel intermediate storage and dispatch. We’ll tion manuals to boxes). We’ll also be able sets to 50 dealers in Switzerland annually, definitely be expanding this business, as to take on the management of the return including C parts management. Dealers there is quite some demand. of goods, as well as repackaging, labelling

Für Sie logistenunsere 200 Hände gerne. Wir liefern–installieren –booten –schnell, präzise und reibungslosimHintergrund. Gerade beim Austausch von PCs sind Kunden auf schnelle Prozessabläufe ange- wiesen. Weber-Voneschsorgt dafür,dass beim Austausch kein Arbeitsunterbruch ent- steht.Hersteller,Service-Provider und Käufervon IT-Systemen und anderen Hightech- Produkten profitieren von unseren Serviceleistungen. weber-vonesch Transport AG |Logistik |6303 Zug |Tel. 041 747 44 44 [email protected] www.logistic.ch International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 23 and sorting. Thanks to direct interfaces DSV acquires between customers’ web-shops and our ERP system, which is a part of our fulfil- SBS Worldwide Holdings ment obligations, customers will be able to check their up-to-date stock inventories DSV, a Danish transport and logis- and the status of their deliveries online. Fi- tics company based in Brøndby near nally, we will also have a multi-lingual call Copenhagen, recently signed a contract centre located in Otelfingen, which will to acquire the entire share capital of the manage inbound and outbound traffic. United Kingdom’s SBS Worldwide Hold- ings. SBS Worldwide offers air and sea What about warehousing logistics? transport, as well as logistics solutions. Next year we’ll be adopting completely DSV said that the newly-acquired enti- new processes in the warehousing field. oup ty’s activities will complement those of

We’ll offer customers the opportunity to er Gr its own air and sea division. SBS has 220 Suls use the WMS solutions of our software : employees, three offices in England and base, that is to say they can rent space, to four in the USA. In the 2012 financial Pho including cloud storage space. Oliver Lindenberger has headed Sulser Trans- year SBS reported revenues of around port and Sulser Logistics Solutions since April. GBP50million (EUR58 million). The «Services and training – we have it.» logistics specialist SBS Worldwide re- gistics customers also frequently hire stu- cently celebrated its 30th anniversary dents who have completed our integration (see ITJ 35-36/2013, page 37). Company Thus customers won’t need to invest in programmes. We also find that we often founder and chairman Steve Walker their own hardware, but will nonethe- gain new customers for our transport ser- launched the business in 1983 under the less be able to meet the demands of their vices after company representatives have name of S Black Shipping, operating web-shop customers through our facilities. attended our courses on safety at work or eastbound ocean freight consolidations Clients expect materials that are ordered on specialised subjects in logistics. between the UK and the USA. today to be delivered tomorrow. In my DSV’s CEO Jens Bjørn Andersen told view the retail future belongs to logistics In which segment does Sulser expect to the media that «SBS Worldwide is an service companies and as solution provid- find new clients? excellent match for DSV. It’s a well-run ers we want to have a role in this future! You’ll appreciate that I can’t disclose too company with good customer relations much about ongoing discussions. Suffice and high-quality services. The USA and In 2012 the Sulser Group’s IT systems it to say that we’re in talks with several UK are important markets for DSV were completely overhauled and cen- large consumer goods brands, but it’s too and the acquisition of SBS will further tralised at an external computer centre early to make any concrete announce- strengthen our activities in these sec- run by Würth Itensis in Chur. What ment. Ask me again at the end of the year. tors.» The parties agreed not to disclose advantages do you expect to gain from the transaction price. ra this move? In 2013 Sulser will have an exhibition www.dsv.com One of the basic rules in logistics is that stand at the Transport & Logistics trade www.sbsworldwide.com only those processes can be improved for fair in Bern (18–19 September). What which the parameters are known. In 2010 can visitors to your stand (number we therefore decided that all five compa- B03/C04) expect? nies in the Sulser Group would cooperate We’ll be providing visitors with an ini- Norbert Dentressangle with Würth Itensis. The decision made us tial glimpse of our new logistics centre figures slightly down more productive in the IT sector and al- in Brunegg at the Transport & Logistics lowed us to concentrate on our core busi- fair in Bern. There will be visualisations The French transport and logistics ser- ness activities. by the architects and they’ll provide an vice provider Norbert Dentressangle impressive understanding of the dimen- (ND) recently announced its figures for Since 2008 the Sulser Group has includ- sions of the new project. the first half of financial 2013, recorded Sulser Transport, Sulser Logistics ing a sales figure of EUR 1.932 billion, a Solutions, the Swiss Logistics Academy «Our first time at the Bern trade fair.» slight 0.1% decline from the EUR 1.934 (which provides further training in the billion registered in the same period last logistics and transport sector) and Swiss year. ND’s ebitda fell by 5.1%, from Pro Work. Are you personally involved There will be a live web-cam that will give EUR 118 to 112 million, and its oper- with the latter two companies? visitors a look behind the scenes of the ating results before goodwill write-offs Yes, to a great extent. Many of our cus- renovation works in progress, which will (ebita) sank by 14%, from EUR 64 to 55 tomers don’t only make use of our trans- be running at full throttle by then. We’ll million. The corporation’s consolidated port and parcel services, but also of the also give our customers and interested net profits for the first six months of services offered by the further training parties first hand information about fu- 2013 came in at EUR 25 million, a 10% company. They may send their drivers on ture opportunities, of course, and of the decline vis-à-vis the previous year. our courses, or require their shelf stackers uses to which they can put our new logis- ra to attend our training sessions. Our lo- tics centre. www.sulsergroup.ch www.norbert-dentressangle.com Your full truck loads

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E-commerce gradually dominating the CEP sector DPD acquires stake in Tiramizoo

The courier, express and parcel service provider DPD is stepping up its activities in the business-to-consumer (B2C) segment and has taken a 20% share in the German city courier portal Tiramizoo.

DPD’s acquisition of a stake in Tirami- growth potential in future years as enor- zoo makes the CEP service provider the mous. Offering delivery on the same day largest external shareholder in the Mu- is already a highly attractive option for

nich-based city courier portal. Tiramizoo service-oriented shippers and consumers, D DP provides delivery within 90 minutes or and this is why we aim to make a same- : within a specific time window in 15 Ger- day service available to our customers by to Pho man cities. DPD is now planning to offer the end of this year.» DPD has spotted great growth potential in the its German customers same-day delivery Tiramizoo is Germany’s largest city same-day delivery sector. by the end of this year, with the support courier portal. The company offers its of Tiramizoo. customers local deliveries at a time of books. Tiramizoo’s managing direc- Boris Winkelmann, chief operating their choice – right down to delivery tor, Michael Löhr, launched the firm in officer at DPD GeoPost (Germany), within 90 minutes – with a network of 2010, together with Volker Schneider and stated, «by taking a stake in Tiramizoo 1,200 couriers. Tiramizoo’s customers Philipp Walz. The firm’s circle of share- we’re assuming a leading role among par- include country-wide multiple outlet and holders was enhanced in September 2012, cel service providers in a key market of online retailers, such as the electronics when Daimler, one of the world’s leading the future.» He added that «at the mo- specialists Conrad and Cyberport, the car manufacturers, acquired Tiramizoo ment the same-day delivery sector is still bookseller Thalia and other retailers in shares. Robert Altermatt a niche market, but we regard the sector’s the fields of fashion, electronics and www.dpd.com

Drop in profit Corrigendum re In brief Damco posts loss. The global freight for Swiss Post new owners for Daher forwarder and logistics services provider Damco, a member of the Maersk cor- Switzerland’s mail service provider Swiss An unfortunate error crept into a re- poration, reported total net revenues of Post (Schweizerische Post AG) reported port entitled «Daher with new owners» USD1.531billion for H1/2013, compared an H1/2013 operating income (turnover) in the Forwarding & Logistics pages of to USD1.522billion in the same period last of CHF4.261billion, a slight decrease of ITJ 31-34/2013, page 21. The French high- year. Despite this increase, Damco registered nearly 1% compared to the same period tech equipment specialist Daher, based in a H1/2013 operating loss of USD2million in 2012. In contrast, earnings before in- Marseilles, is only hiving off the general after tax and ebita sank from USD34million terest and tax (ebit) vaulted by 29% to cargo and chemical logistics business of to USD24 million. www.damco.com CHF556million. The adjusted group its forwarding division, and not – as was Yusen Logistics in Thailand. Yusen profit in the first half dropped by 13% erroneously reported in the ITJ – its re- Logistics, owned by Japan’s major shipping to CHF359 million. Switzerland’s mail maining business activities. We deeply company NYK, has started operations at service provider said that the decline in regret this mistake. a 20,000 sqm logistics platform in Laem profits was due to the group’s result be- The purchaser of parts of Daher’s for- Chabang, 100 km southeast of Bangkok ing fully subject to taxation for the first warding sector is the French transport (Thailand). The new facility Yusen Logistics time following its conversion to a joint and logistics corporation Norbert Dent- brings the logistics space at its disposal in stock company (AG). The new legal form ressangle. The transaction, which should Thailand to 200,000 sqm. of Swiss Post was introduced at the end be completed in the third quarter of the www.yusen-logistics.com of June with retroactive effect from the current year, has to be approved by the beginning of 2013. Swiss Post includes relevant competition authorities. Daher, Business stays stable at Toll. The Austral- three corporate affiliates – Post CH AG, which was founded in 1863, generated a ian transport and logistics service provider Postfinance AG and Postauto Schweiz turnover of EUR925million in business Toll Group reported that its revenue in AG. Post Logistics, the postal company’s year 2012 and has a marked presence in business year 2012/2013 grew to AUD8.7bil- lion (EUR5.87billion), a slight 0.1% increase logistics arm, noted an operating profit of the market with its own branch offices in over the preceding year. The group’s net CHF68million in the first half of the cur- twelve countries worldwide. profit increased by 3% to AUD282million rent year (CHF73 million in H1/2012). ra (EUR190million). ra www.dahergroup.com www.toll.com.au www.post.ch www.norbert-dentressangle.com Supported by: International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Forwarding & Logistics 27

stored securely will receive their deliveries at night. Contact lenses, for example, that are ordered on any given day will arrive at customers’ locations between 05.00 and o 09.00 the next morning. vat Ar : to Pho Cutting costs by bundling An Arvato employee picking goods. Arvato said that the new solution offers companies in the optical sector more than Arvato Transport expands range of services in France just the potential to save money when distributing their products due to the bundling of deliveries and overnight dis- Delivery network for opticians tribution. Because manufacturers have to comply with Europe’s good delivery prac- The logistics company Arvato Transport recently expanded its service portfolio for the tice legislation for the pharmaceuticals optical sector in tandem with another French service provider, offering a new network industry (GDP) when distributing their products, they are faced with the chal- for overnight deliveries. lenge of finding suitable shipping providers who offer not only efficient small-parts Arvato Transport, a subsidiary of the Ber- time. This existing traffic will be fed into logistics, but also an active cold-chain so- telsmann group, started to develop a over- the new network in future. At the same lution. As a result, they frequently use dif- night delivery network on 1 September, in time the unnamed French partner is add- ferent freight transport companies. How- partnership with one of the leading French ing overnight distribution to its daytime ever, that makes shipping and invoicing freight carriers. Arvato declined to disclose delivery network. more complex. Finding the right carrier the identity of its French partner. Arvato for every delivery is time consuming and Transport has been providing scheduled Safe drop-off points costly, according to Arvato. transport services to France for manufac- In future branches of optician firms that Robert Altermatt turers of optical products for quite some have a safe box where their orders can be www.arvato.com

TPF Forwarding Network Apreo Logistics In brief Old Dominion in Chicago. The US-based to strengthen brand becomes C.H. Robinson less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line Inc recently opened a new The TPF Forwarding Network held this The US forwarder and logistics service cross-docking facility in Crest Hill, southwest year’s annual general meeting in São Paulo, provider C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc, of Chicago IL. The platform, named the located in the southern Brazilian state of which is headquartered in Eden Prairie Chicago West Service Center, is equipped the same name. At the event members de- MN, recently reported that its ongoing with 100 truck-loading bays. cided to concentrate on the development integration and rebranding process for www.odfl.com and reinforcement of the already-strong the Polish freight forwarder and logistics Mainfreight in St Petersburg. Mainfreight TPF brand in the coming year. Every cus- service provider Apreo Logistics has now Ltd, an international freight forwarding and tomer that uses a TPF member to fulfil been completed. logistics company from Auckland (New Zea- its transport requirements is to receive The Warsaw-based forwarder, which land), was granted a customs representative the same high-quality service everywhere was taken over by the US company in licence in St Petersburg (Russia) at the be- and be able to benefit from international September 2012, will trade under the ginning of August. This enables Mainfreight contacts. name of C.H. Robinson in future. to commence work as a customs broker in Only owner-managed medium-sized Apreo was founded in 2007 and spe- the greater St Petersburg region, as well as forwarding companies can join the TPF cialises in full truck-load services (includ- in Smolensk, Moscow and Novorossiysk, alliance. TPF’s members can also bank on ing a broad range of temperature-con- with immediate effect. exclusivity, as only one firm per coun- trolled, liquid and dry bulk options). On www.mainfreight.com try or region is accepted by the alliance. top of that, the Polish service provider The TPF Forwarding Network, which was also handles warehousing and interna- XPO finalizes acquisition. The US service founded by twelve enterprises in 1994, tional air and ocean services. provider XPO Logistics, which is based in has now grown to 54 members with 90 Apreo Logistics has more than 300 em- Greenwich CT, has completed its purchase offices that employ approximately 1,000 ployees and caters to over 2,000 clients. of 3PD Holding (3PD), which in turn is domiciled in Atlanta GA (see ITJ 31-34/2013, people. As a point of interest, TPF mem- C.H. Robinson Worldwide, in turn, takes page 32). The transaction’s price tag was ber Kopf & Lübben, headquartered in care of 42,000 customers at 275 global around USD365million. Bremen (Germany), is celebrating its 20th locations with a workforce of 11,000. ra www.xpologistics.com anniversary this year. www.chrobinson.com www.3pd.com www.tpfnetwork.org www.apreologistics.com 28 Rail / Inland Shipping / Road Haulage International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

ECL launches domestic shuttle between Baltic Sea and Rhein-Neckar area Intermodal heads inland

28 August saw the launch of a intermodal link by European Cargo Logistics (ECL), connecting the German Baltic Sea port of Travemünde to Ludwigshafen, an industrial hub L in the country’s southwest. ECL is a subsidiary of Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG). EC : to Pho The new Rhein-Neckar shuttle transports Rail Gate and Skandinavienkai terminals Travemünde’s Baltic Rail Gate terminal will be trailers, swap bodies and containers, and in Travemünde, and from the Kombi-Ter- served by the new shuttle. is the second intra-German intermodal minal Ludwigshafen (KTL). Average jour- connection from Lübeck-Travemünde, ney times to and from Ludwigshafen are make it an economically attractive run, following the inauguration of the Ruhr twelve hours (Lübeck), 30 (Sweden) and but also because there is excellent road Shuttle, which has been operating be- 60 hours (southern Finland). Loads that connectivity to neighbouring countries. tween Lübeck and Duisburg since May. are in port in Finland on a Friday after- The metropolis of Ludwigshafen, situ- The new rail service begins with bi- noon, say, can be picked up in Ludwigs- ated where the river Neckar flows into weekly departures in each direction. The hafen the following Monday morning. the river Rhine, also has numerous in- schedule will be upgraded weekly thereaf- The southern destination was chosen ternational rail links, including connec- ter, until there are six weekly departures. not only because the numerous indus- tions to France, Spain, Italy, Austria and The new shuttle operates from the Baltic tries located in the Rhein-Neckar triangle Hungary. www.ecl-online.de

Full steam ahead for GFR Captrain in the north DHL groupage service

The Romanian private railway Grup Captrain Germany, a service provider DHL Freight, a leading European road Feroviar Roman (GFR) has registered for rail-based transport solutions, ac- haulage provider, has introduced a new two notable achievements, one at home quired the Swedish company Railcare day-definite groupage service in Europe and the other in Croatia. In the privatisa- Tåg and the regional railfreight activities that includes prioritised handling and tion process of Croatia’s state-owned rail- of Railcare Danmark from Sweden’s Rail- scheduled door-to-door deliveries. The freight operator HZ Cargo the Croatian care Group on 15 August. Railcare Tåg, new option, called Eurapid, includes government approved GFR’s EUR50mil- which is headquartered in Skelleftehamn, constant monitoring of consignments lion offer at the end of July. GFR can thus will operate under the nametag Captrain and standard end-to-end reports. The op- take a 75% stake in HZ Cargo. Rail Cargo Sweden.A new company, called Captrain tions, which went online on 2 September Austria and the private Czech railway op- Denmark and based in Helsingør, was for all European LTL units weighing up erator AWT were GFR’s competitors who founded to manage regional railfreight to 2.5 t, offer centrally-steered direct con- came second in this tender. operations in Denmark. nections between Europe’s major centres GFR also officially took over 51% of The acquisition of the activities was of trade and industry. the state-owned Romanian railfreight originally carried out in July of this year. DHL Eurapid is initially available in firm CFR Marfa in August. In June GFR It was then implemented a month later, 14 countries, covering the highest GDP had established that it was the only re- when the transfer of the commercial and areas in Europe and 74% of the region’s maining candidate in the tender process, operational management to Captrain’s export/import trade volumes, according which was worth approximately EUR200 parent company SNCF Geodis, the to DP DHL. The corporation added that million. Now the official bodies involved freight transport and logistics arm of the additional areas will be connected to the in the process have confirmed their final French national railway SNCF, was com- network in the coming months. approval of the deal. www.gfr.ro pleted. www.captrain.de www.dpdhl.com

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The modal split for inland waterway barges in traffic to and from the hinterland has been contractually set at 45% for the new terminals in Rotterdam. Terminals in Basel, Switzerland’s inland port on the Rhine, have already reached gge

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: tion of the Basel Nord trimodal contain- to er terminal to be an urgent priority, to Pho A barge in Basel. 4.9 million t of goods were carried between the city and the North Sea in 2012. ensure efficient goods handling between Rotterdam and Genoa, both on inland The trimodal transport chain to and from Switzerland barges as well as by rail. A delegation of Swiss parliamentarians travelled to the mouths of the Rhine Good Alps–North Sea connections earlier this month, to get an on-site im- pression of activities in Europe’s largest The Rhine, whose source is in Switzerland, connects the Alpine republic to Rotterdam, deepsea centre. The trip brought the im- the largest European deepsea port. Swiss parliamentarians recently visited the hub to portance of Switzerland’s inland ports on the Rhine in Basel home to many a assess the importance of inland waterway traffic for the ever-increasing flow of goods. member of parliament – which is not a The ITJ was part of the delegation. given fact in landlocked Switzerland. The overall tenor of the conclusion that the «We feel connected to you.» Hans Smits, Rhine alone, just under 5milliont of group arrived at was almost unanimous: the outgoing chief executive officer of goods flowed between the two partners For Switzerland, too, the future of freight the Rotterdam port authority, neatly in 2012. Analysts believe that this figure transport is trimodal. av summarised relationships between the will double by 2030, not least thanks to www.portofbasel.ch Dutch hub and Switzerland. On the the Maasvlakte 2 in Rotterdam. www.portofrotterdam.com 30 Middle East Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

this, thanks to the diversification of exports from the United Arab Emirates (see also ITJ 21-22/2013, page 27). This is where ADPC also comes in.

PC The port is the focal point of the Kha- AD

: lifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), to which is expected to contribute 15% of Pho The port of Khalifa has a capacity of 2.5 million teu and is planning for more throughput from Kizad. the Emirate’s gross national product (ex- cluding oil) by 2030. The government of Expanding Middle Eastern container capacities the UAE has already invested approximately USD7.2billion (EUR5.4billion) in the initial infrastructure construction No harm in competition phase for the Kizad industrial zone, located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. 50 companies have already opened offices Last year the port of Khalifa assumed responsibility from the old port of Mina Zayed for on an area covering 51 sqkm, including the shipment of all containers to and from Abu Dhabi. An adjacent industrial zone is the German firms KSB, which produces industrial pumps, and Binos, a machinery expected to generate additional traffic in future and thus strengthen the port’s position. manufacturer. Small and medium-sized companies from India and other regions The Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) tive, and the port was able to increase its of Asia are also located there. The zone has major ambitions. The new deepsea container throughput by 2.5% to almost can accommodate up to 280 companies. port of Khalifa, which was opened a year 800,000teu in 2012, compared to the ago, is expected to act as a bridge for previous year. This figure also includes More than transit goods traffic between east and west. The port shipments to and from Mina Zayed until Kizad is just 25 km from Abu Dhabi air- is well-placed to achieve this. It was built the end of that year. port and close to the seaport of Khalifa. on an artificial island off the coast of Abu It is thus expected to perform well in pro- Dhabi, is able to offer semi-automatic International clientele duction and cargo transport. The more container handling and can receive ships Khalifa has a powerful competitor in the firms that open offices in Kizad, the bet- with draughts of up to 16 m. vicinity, in the form of Jebel Ali, the flag- ter it will be for the port of Khalifa. Un- Last year the Khalifa hub took respon- ship port of terminal operator DP World. like Jebel Ali, which currently is primarily sibility from the old port of Mina Zayed Last year, Jebel Ali’s container throughput a transit port, Khalifa could strengthen for the shipment of all containers to and stood at 13.3millionteu, and the port is its position as a hub for shipments meet- from the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Khal- also undergoing considerable expansion. ing demand from the industrialisation ifa currently has a capacity of 2.5mil- Upon completion of its new terminal process in Abu Dhabi and domestic con- lionteu, which is expected to increase in the coming year, Jebel Ali will have the sumption. to 15 millionteu by 2030, according to capacity to handle 19 million teu, and it Manik Mehta/Antje Veregge ADPC’s plans. Initial results are posi- is confident of being able to fully exploit www.adpc.ae

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New Port Tank Containers • Talke Group Joint venture in Saudi Arabia

The global tank container operator New Port has entered into a joint venture with the Saudi Arabian subsidiary of Germany’s Talke Group.

Talke and New Port stated that the newly-founded joint venture will enable both partners to increase business volumes significantly, and will simultaneously offer a e lk Ta wider range of logistics services for the booming petro- : to

chemical industry in the Middle East. The Talke Group Pho has already been active in the Middle Eastern market for The Talke Group is expanding in the Middle East. over ten years, and S.A Talke acts as the agent for New Port in Saudi Arabia. liont of this intermediate product per year. Talke increasingly offers cli- The Cleveland OH based firm New Port Tank Con- ents in the region its core expertise – logistics services for the producers tainers, which operates a fleet in excess of 13,000 over- of liquid chemicals. Thus the German service provider facilitates the seas tank containers, will manage the new joint under- developing structural change towards the local manufacturing of more taking – known as New Port Saudi Arabia – together with finished products in the Gulf region. edited by Robert Altermatt S.A. Talke. The joint venture will be headquartered in www.talke.com Al Jubail on the Saudi Arabian Gulf coast. New Port is represented by its own sales office in Dubai, as well as by agents in all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

Ten years in the Middle East Thanks to its ten-year presence in the Middle East the Talke Group, a specialist for tank and silo transport services, has organically-developed structures in many of the GCC states. The focus to date has mainly been on handling plastic polymer granulates. Over and above www.zenit-spedition.at this, the chemicals logistics expert moves around 10 mil-

In brief

Total Freight in Dubai. The Dubai-based Emirati forwarding company Total Freight International recently commenced construction work on a 5,600 sqm storage and distribution centre in Dubai. The firm plans to put the terminal into service in April 2014. www.totalfreightintl.com

Joint venture. The German service provider DB Schenker Logistics has established a new joint venture in Abu Dhabi with its long-standing partner Salem Freight International. The new undertaking will trade under the name Schenker Logistics LLC. www.dbschenker.com

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Deutsche Bahn and Etihad Rail developing railfreight traffic on the Arabian Peninsula First train nearly ready to roll

A joint venture between Deutsche Bahn and Etihad Rail for the provision of railfreight services on the Arabian Peninsula is set to commence operations in October. A contract to establish an undertaking called Etihad Rail DB Operations was signed recently in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). il Ra ad ih : Et to Pho The fledgling local operator Etihad Rail is working with an experienced provider to ensure that the freight railway that is under construction on the Arabian Peninsula will not be built on sand.

Etihad Rail, the railway development English is one of the basic requirements of half a century and DB International ex- and operating company of the United obtaining employment, the recruitment perts have been present in the local and Arab Emirates (UAE), has chosen the task is being coordinated by DB Schen- regional market for decades. They have German service provider DB Schenker ker Rail UK. The first freight trains are been working for Etihad Rail for many Rail as its partner for a new joint ven- expected to roll on the tracks in October. years. «Now we can contribute more of ture. The Emirati rail service provider our railfreight transport expertise to the will hold a majority share of the start- European technical standards region. We’re delighted to be chosen for up capital in the new enterprise, called A new rail network for passenger and this important project,» said Alexander Etihad Rail DB Operations. freight traffic is currently being created Hedderich, CEO of DB Schenker Rail, The German partner, DB Schenker across all of the UAE’s seven emirates who, like HE Mattar Mohammed Al Tay- Rail, has assumed responsibility for the (Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, er, deputy chairman of Etihad Rail, set recruitment of more than 200 employees Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al- his signature on the contract to establish who will be required on long-term con- Quwain). In the final stage – and after a the new railway company. tracts during the gradual development of total investment of more than EUR 80 bil- Etihad Rail was founded four years rail operations and for the maintenance lion – the emirates’ economic centres and ago and mandated to develop, build and of the rolling stock. The search is on for ports will be connected by a 1,200km rail operate a railway network in the UAE. specialists from all of the various railway network that is being built and equipped This network will form an essential part professions – from signalling technicians, to European technical standards. of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s trans- through railcar supervisors and engineers The region has been served by DB port plans and connect the UAE to Saudi to security managers. As proficiency in Schenker’s logisticians for more than Arabia in the west (via Ghweifat, Saudi Arabia) as well as to Oman in the east via Al Ain (UAE).A further phase of development will provide a rail link between Iraq calls for international bids for a new airport Mussafah (Abu Dhabi) and the Emirati Persian Gulf ports of Khalifa and Jebel Iraq is planning to build a new airport to The pre-deadline for an international call Ali, and extend to the Saudi Arabian and the south of the country’s capital city of to tender for participation in the land and Omani borders. Construction work for Bagdad, located in the centre of a trian- airside infrastructure expired on 10 July. the connection to the northern emirates gle formed by the cities of Karbala, Hilla Nasser Hussein, the director general of is already in progress. and Nadjaf. Should the Middle Euphra- the Iraqi aviation authority, informed The rail network’s first client will be tes international airport project, which is regional media that unnamed candi- the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, expected to require investments totalling dates from Germany, Italy, the USA, the which will use the tracks to haul sulphur USD2.5billion, be realised as planned, United Arab Emirates and Turkey had granulate. Discussions are currently be- then it could become the new hub of the signalled their interest in participating in ing held with other potential customers country’s flag carrier Iraqi Airways. The the project. ah of the Etihad Rail network. These poten- airline wants to triple its fleet to more www.iraqcaa.com tial users are from the steel, energy and than 60 aircraft by 2016. www.iq-airways.com building sectors. www.etihadrail.ae International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Middle East Special 33

Supplying more refugees – the rising price of kerosene Worries over Syria increasing

The dramatic situation in Syria is not being resolved, with the consequence that around 2 million refugees have left the country, and need to be supplied with life-saving supplies in Syria’s neighbouring countries. There is a question mark hanging over the future of civil aviation in Syria. The overwhelming regional uncertainty is simultaneously threatening to drive up the price of kerosene globally.

It was not clear at the time when these lines were being written what kind of a coalition might be set up to intervene in the Syrian civil war. The only certainty was that many people were leaving the country, trying to escape the chaos and suffering at home. But in Syria’s neighbouring countries, where they arrived as refugees, a humanitarian catastrophe loomed. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has estimated that since the war began in spring 2011 more than ef

200,000 Syrians had left the country and ic Un headed for Iraq by September, 50,000 of : to them in the second half of August alone. Pho Erbil, in the Kurdish region of north- On 1 September the UPS Foundation, the charitable subsidiary of UPS, helped Unicef to transport ern Iraq, recently received one of many emergency supplies for Syrian refugees to the north of neighbouring Iraq. aid programmes currently being implemented. The UPS Foundation, the chari- Lebanese capital Beirut on 9 August. recently driven the price of crude oil to its table subsidiary of the US express service This has not yet affected the frequency highest level in six months. Mark Irvine- provider UPS, cooperated with Unicef to of flights from Istanbul, but Turkey has Fortescue, an analyst with the US stock transport more than 100t of emergency lowered its regional profile. On 3 Septem- exchange broker Jefferies, has observed supplies to the area. These included life- ber the country withdrew its contingent that «the price of Air France-KLM’s and saving health and hygiene consignments, of UN troops stationed in southern Leba- IAG’s shares declined by 9% recently, special nutritional supplies, drinking non (Unifil). and that of Lufthansa’s by 7%.» Having water, school equipment and emergency The world’s airlines believe that new analysed each player’s financial strategy, infant support materials. Almost half of adversity will be facing them soon, as he believes that the Franco-Dutch cor- the refugees are children. instability in the entire oil-producing poration will be subject to the strongest region increases. An airline uses roughly pressures arising from rising fuel prices. The future of local aviation 30–45% of its overall expenditure on pro- Andreas Haug Up to one quarter of the population that curing fuel. The war-driven rhetoric has www.jefferies.com; www.ups.com has remained in Syria is probably inter- nally displaced. And they are in danger UPS draws conclusions from an accident in Dubai of attacks from the air. Most airlines have not yet decided to avoid Syrian airspace, A fire that broke out on a Boeing B747-400F operated by UPS on 3 September 2010 (see ITJ even though possible air strikes against 45-46/2010, page 51), causing the aeroplane to crash in Dubai (UAE), was probably due to con- strategic government positions by the signments with lithium batteries catching fire. This is the conclusion of an investigation conducted USA and/or its allies are looming. Emir- by the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) into the incident, in which the two crew ates’ president Tim Clark, whose corpora- members lost their lives. tion is particularly heavily affected by the UPS has now heeded advice contained in the GCAA’s report on the event and recommenda- unrest – on account of the geographical tions made by the Independent Pilots’ Association IPA, and deployed 575 fire-containment covers proximity of its hub to the heart of the for cargo pallets. The company has also placed an order for 1,821 fire-resistant ULD shipping unrest – told the media that «we’ve got containers. Delivery will begin in September and be completed by early 2014. The corporation’s new safety initiative can give flight crews more time to land safely in the event of an in-flight fire. emergency and contingency plans ready UPS is also installing quick-donning, full-face oxygen masks for pilots in its air fleet. The company in the top drawer, and can implement has also installed emergency vision assurance systems for pilots. them immediately and efficiently should These measures, which UPS said represented «a milestone in aviation history», earned the developments in Syria warrant the move.» logistics service provider plaudits from pilots and authorities, but could not prevent a deadly The spark has already sprung to neigh- incident with an Airbus A300-600F (see ITJ Daily of 16 August 2013). bouring Lebanon. Two pilots working for www.gcaa.gov.ae Turkish Airlines were kidnapped in the 34 Packaging International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

Kenya and the USA cooperate on an online packaging course First cohort a success

An agreement between Kenyan and US packaging institutes concluded in February of this year yielded its first fruits over the past summer. Eleven graduates of the online training programme managed to earn the prized certificate for packaging technology. The costs for the initial group of students were covered by corporate sponsors.

In February the Institute of Packaging Professionals US (IoPP) and its Kenyan counterpart, the Institute of Packaging Professionals Kenya (IoPP Kenya) approved new fundamentals of an online course in packaging technology, thereby certifying the course of study for both IoPP member in Kenya and for trainees from other countries. The introduction of this training programme was also due to the support of the African Packaging Organisation, as well as the World Packaging Organisa- a tion training network. This new initiative Im Ipack was made possible through the contribu- : to

tions of sponsors, which covered the costs Pho for Kenyan trainees participating in the Ipack Ima from Milan believes there is a need as well as opportunities for packaging trade fairs in programme. One of the first companies Africa. It also sponsors the further training of local packaging experts. to get involved as a sponsor of the programme was Ipack Ima, an organiser of will use what they have learned as an edu- sised the importance of the programme. trade fairs from Milan (Italy). cational module for training programmes He pointed out that the range of foods in their own institute. regionally available in Africa could be From research bodies and the industry Joseph Nyongesa, the president of improved as a direct result of improved Five of the first eleven graduates came IoPP Kenya, emphasised his belief that packaging. from the Kenya Industrial Research and the online programme had elevated pack- These and other packaging technolo- Development Institute (Kirdi). Nestle aging handling to a higher level in Kenya. gies will be presented at the East AfriPack Equatorial Africa and Tetrapak Kenya «I’m also proud of the fact that 40% of 2014 trade fair, which will be held in Sep- each sent one student, and another came the participants are women, and I hope tember 2014 and will cater to East African from the Kenyan national weights and that this aspect aimed at the advancement Community (EAC) countries Burundi, measures office. The students from Kirdi of women will motivate further spon- Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. were especially keen to broaden their per- sors,» he said. Guido Corbella, the CEO cd spectives in the field of packaging and of main sponsor Ipack Ima, also empha- www.iopp.org

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Movianto expanding its services in Switzerland Secondary packaging – a new service

Movianto, a German logistics firm which specialises in pharmaceutical logistics and healthcare services, has expanded its portfolio in Switzer- land. The pharmaceutical packaging company has added another element to its service catalogue in the form of secondary packaging – which is the (re-)packaging of units into other units, the insertion of an information or package leaflet or the (re-)labelling of items.

Movianto was required to extend its The task involves check- wholesale business permit to enable it to ing if the regulations ap- offer its new secondary packaging service. plicable in Switzerland in

This required licencing by Swissmedic, accordance with the medi- o the Swiss supervisory authority for medical products act, and the ant cal sundries, applications and remedies. pharmaceutical approval Movi o:

Swissmedic commissioned the inspection regulations, are being Phot of Movianto by its regional representative, complied with. Licences The logistics service provider Movianto now offers its the medicinal product inspectorate for are granted after successful customers a re-packaging of medical consignments option northwestern Switzerland, which ensures inspections, which was on in Switzerland. that the drugs and medicinal products that 31 July for Movianto. are supplied to the populations in the can- Movianto has intensively trained a ing on the order. According to Movianto, tons of Bern, Lucerne, Solothurn, Basel- group of employees in the field of second- the first customers have already expressed Stadt, Basel-Landschaft and Aargau are of ary packaging, in order to be able to meet an interest in the new services. ra the high quality expected. its clients’ specific requirements, depend- www.movianto.com

Logwin ensures that sea cargo reaches its destination intact

Logwin, a Luxembourgian logistics service collaboration with Alstom, a leading in of standard items like plywood or drying provider, was recently certified for seawor- the energy-sector company. In Traiskirch- agents to hand. For electronic goods, the thy packaging at its Traiskirchen (Austria) en Logwin carefully packed sensitive elec- equipment has not only to be protected location. During the audit Logwin had tronic equipment for its long-standing from moisture, dirt and extreme tempera- to prove, amongst other things, that its customer, The consignments were due to tures, but secure transport also includes wood-processing machines were approved be shipped to Bhutan by sea cargo, via electrostatic special films, as well as fillers for this specific use and that its employees Hamburg and Mumbai. to dampen any vibrations. The packaged were appropriately qualified. Logwin of- The packaging for the components individual components are then stacked fers numerous services for secure sea cargo could not be standardised. This meant that on pallets. The last step before stowing transportation, from the procurement of Logwin had to first determine the exact di- the goods in the container is to enclose packaging material to the stowage of the mensions of each individual component. them. Here the pallet gets enclosed using containers. Then the logistics service provider ordered certified pest-free wood which completely An example of a particularly demand- the packaging materials from its supplier surrounds it. ra ing packaging solution can be found in the in Austria. Logwin always keeps a stock www.logwin-logistics.com 36 Switzerland International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

Streck further expands range of services Daily direct Munich services

The freight forwarding company Streck Transport, based in Möhlin near Basel (Switzer- land), recently began offering a daily direct service to and from Munich. The company is partnering the traditional family-owned firm Spedition Ascherl, headquartered in Munich.

Streck Transport’s new service covers the Streck’s dispatch department electroni- t full range of solutions needed, from parcels cally. The systems provide for automatic or

to full loads. For urgent deliveries there is printing of parcel labels that contain the ansp Tr the so-called Streck classic 24 premium appropriate routing information. The ck re St option. This special service includes over- tracking number allows the shipment to : to

night delivery. The loads reach Munich at be traced by internet all the way to the re- Pho 05.00 in the morning and can be delivered cipient. The electronic delivery note with Streck’s lorries will link Munich directly to the the same day, provided the consignment is the customer’s signature is also uploaded company’s network in future. destined for an address with a 80–83 post onto the internet. code (and parts of 84 and 85). its own extensive cargo network in Switz- Customers can call the company by Zurich option in the pipeline erland. According to Manfred Schmittel, phone before or around noon for pick-up The company guarantees customs clear- head of marketing at Streck Transport, the on the same day. They can also use the ance and deliveryof pre-booked shipments company intends to expand the Munich Streck internet portal for bookings. For in 24 hours for incoming goods destined service. «A parallel daily service to and dispatch and export formalities Streck for customers in Switzerland (with the ex- from Embrach (near Zurich) is already in Transport frequently makes use of an IT ception of the mountain regions). Express the pipeline,» he elaborated. service called Expowin and provided by consignments can be delivered the same Robert Altermatt Fine Solutions. Orders are transmitted to day they are received. Streck Transport has www.streck-transport.com

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JAT and other ex-Yugoslav airlines attracting investors The happening market to be in

Serbia’s JAT Airways is set to become Air Serbia with the coming on board of Etihad (as has been known for the past six weeks, see ITJ 31-34/2013, page 35). Slovenia’s Adria Airways, Bosnia’s B&H Airlines and Croatia Airlines are three other regional providers that are on potential investors’ lists of interesting carriers. It is not quite clear yet, however, just who may be interested in whom.

Etihad Airways touched down in Bel- There are rumours swirl- grade this summer, at JAT Airways, to ing around the future of be precise. The flag carrier of the for- Bosnia and Herzegovina’s mer Yugoslavia is set to take off again as B&H Airlines too, not Air Serbia with the launch of the winter least on account of the schedule at the end of October. The me- fact that Turkish Airlines

dia in neighbouring Croatia, in turn, has transferred a 49% stake it es in rl

been speculating on another move in the held to the government in Ai a region by the Abu Dhabi-based carrier. Sarajevo in summer 2012. ti oa Cr

At the end of August Etihad categorically The national media has : denied rumours that it would be taking also named Etihad Air- to Pho a stake in Croatia Airlines. The Emirati ways as a potential suitor Airlines from the successor states to the former Yugoslavia are carrier already owns 49% of the shares in in this case, after transport keen to leave the turbulence of the past few years behind them. Air Serbia, 40% of Air Seychelles, 29.21% minister Enver Bijedic One of the ways to achieve this is to take investors from the of Air Berlin, 10% of Virgin Australia and mentioned talks that he Middle or Far East on board. 2.987% of Aer Lingus. had held with unnamed In the meantime Garuda Indonesia representatives of «airlines headquartered bljana, both of which are part of a privati- has become a candidate for a stake in in the United Arab Emirates». sation package, as the hub’s CEO, Zmago Croatia Airlines, signalling a clear inter- Skobir, confirmed. «Small markets such est in taking a 49% stake. Emirsyah Satar, Small providers, big opportunities as Slovenia’s aren’t attractive for large Eu- the president and CEO of the Indonesian A deal between China Southern Airlines ropean airlines,» he said, «but they are for flag carrier, conducted talks to this end in and Adria Airways is in the pipeline. CSA emerging Asian players.» ah Zagreb at the end of August. is interested in the Slovenian flag carrier’s www.croatiaairlines.com Now that the privatisation process of pilots’ school, and in the airport in Lju- www.adria.si; www.bhairlines.ba the country’s state-owned railfreight enterprise has been completed (see page 28), the Croatian government is planning to In brief More route cuts. Olympic Air, having already issue a tender in October 2013 and Feb- terminated its flight linking Athens to Rhodes, ruary 2014, with which it aims to secure Back in the black. Greece’s Aegean Airlines has announced that from 14 October the cities the future of Croatia Airlines by finding returned to the profit zone in the first half of of Thessaloniki and Heraklion will no longer 2013. It generated sales worth approximately be connected to the country’s capital either. a strong partner for the airline, which was EUR279million in the first six months of The plans have been criticised across Greece. founded in 1990. the year, a 22% improvement on the figure Olympic Air, which is in talks for a takeover by Garuda only flies to Amsterdam reported for the same period in the previous Aegean Airlines, told parliamentarians that the (via Abu Dhabi) in Europe, and is due year. This resulted in a EUR16.5million profit. route reductions were unavoidable, on ac- to launch a London Gatwick link in Aegean made a loss of EUR38.5million in count of the economic downturn buffeting the November, but is now seeking to expand H1/2012. www.aegeanair.com country. www.olympicair.com its presence on the old continent. 38 Southern Europe International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

Spanish and Portuguese logistics market Venca mandates Tourline Express

Tourline Express, a Spanish CEP firm founded in 1998 which is part of s

CTT Correios de Portugal, that country’s national postal service provider, pres Ex ne recently won a logistics contract to offer deliveries in the Iberian li ur To Peninsula for fashion retailer Venca’s e-commerce activities. : to Pho The deal which Tourline Express has signed with the Spanish on- The Spanish CEP service provider Tourline Express is expanding its line fashion retailer Venca includes options for the delivery in all activities in Spain and Portugal. of the Iberian Peninsula of clothes that have been ordered through the company’s e-commerce channels. In Spain Tourline Express will 1,000 consignments a day. Pedro Salvador, the director distribute Venca’s products from its 335 sales offices and 24 logistics of Tourline Express and CTT Expresso, told the me- centres spread across the entire country, whilst CTT Expresso will be dia that in his opinion the new contract clearly shows in charge of deliveries in Portugal. that both service providers are in a position to offer Venca is headquartered in Barcelona and says that it is the second- their clients high-quality services in Spain as well as in largest online fashion retailer in the country. It has approximately Portugal. Robert Altermatt 1.4million customers and focuses on products mainly for women. www.ctt.pt The managers of Tourline Express and CTT Expresso assume that www.venca.es in a first phase the collaboration will call for the handling of around www.tourlineexpress.com

In brief

FCC Logística and Sanofi in Portugal. The French pharmaceuticals corporation Sanofi recently extended a cooperation agreement originally signed with the Spanish service provider FCC Logística in 1999 for logistics services in Portugal. FCC Logística handles medicine warehousing logistics and distribution services for the Sanofi Group in Portugal, and also looks after the logistics of medical samples and marketing materials. Besides collaborating with Sanofi in the Portuguese pharmaceuticals segment, FCC Logística also works with Genzyme and Zentiva in Lusitania. www.fcclogistica.com

GLS news from Spain and Italy. GLS Spain, the Spanish parcel subsidiary of the Amsterdam-based Dutch company General Logistics Systems (GLS), recently began operations in a new logistics platform in Alicante. The 1,500 sqm terminal is located in the Las Atalayas industrial zone. In other news, GLS Italy, the Italian branch of GLS, was recently granted the status of authorised economic operator (AEO-F) in its home country. The AEO-F certificate (F for full) simplifies and ac- celerates customs formalities when importing and exporting goods. www.gls-group.eu

Logisfashion teams up with FC Barcelona. The Spanish company Logisfashion, which specialises in textiles logistics, is set to commence a cooperation agreement with the Catalan football club FC Barcelona. In future Logisfashion will manage orders that come in through FC Barcelona’s online shop. Logisfashion is based in Santa Maria de Palautordera, near Barcelona. www.logisfashion.com International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 North and Latin America 39

Analysing Latin America’s maritime facilities Is connectivity the key?

Unctad’s Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI) was released for the tenth year running in the summer of 2013. Since 2003 statistical data from 159 countries has been collected e chiv Ar J according to specific criteria, in order to assess how individual countries and ports stack IT : to

up in international maritime trade. The latest statistics reveal quite some surprises in Pho Latin America. Over the last ten years, Panama stood its ground as the region’s leading shipping nation.

Winston Churchill’s observation that In addition, the number and the capacity same period, maritime connectivity in «the numbers don’t lie» is no less valid – measured in teu – of the ships that serve Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador slowed, even now that it has become a truism. a nation’s ports are collected, as well as while the countries of Chile, Colombia The criteria according to which statistics servie c s that connect domestic ports with and Peru have all held steady at their are collected are the crucial factor deter- international ports. The fifth criterion is previous levels. mining how meaningful the numbers are. the total number of containers shipped Panama continued to hold onto the The United Nations Conference on Trade annually to all of the country’s ports. highest ranking in the table – the coun- and Development (Unctad) has updated try has laid claim to the top-ranked posi- its Liner Shipping Connectivity Index Upticks and downturns tion ever since the index started keeping (LSCI) for the tenth time in succession Developments in the index over the past track ten years ago. From 2012 to 2013 this year, and over time it has refined the ten years have held plenty of surprises. Panama significantly improved its score. parameters for statistics collection in its Proportionally, Peru and Chile have im- It gained 2.5 points, pushing its figure maritime facilities survey. proved their positions the most – by a fac- from 42.38 to 44.88. Industry observers tor of 2.2 and 2.1 respectively. Colombia, predict that the opening of the expanded The magic five however, has gained the most ground in Panama Canal (see also ITJ 31-34/2013, The index’s authors analyse five catego- recent years – particularly since 2011 – page 30) in 2015 will bring an added eco- ries, and assign points to individual coun- and has more than doubled its score over nomic boost to the region, as well as to tries based on their assessment. First, the the past decade. the country as a transhipment hub. number of companies offering services to Mexico registered the sharpest in- and from the ports of the country con- crease from 2012 to 2013, having added Christian Doepgen cerned is determined. nearly three points to its total. Over the source: www.unctadstat.unctad.org

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, annual, 2004–2013 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Argentina 20.09 24.95 25.58 25.63 25.7 25.99 27.61 30.62 34.21 33.51 Brazil 25.83 31.49 31.61 31.64 30.87 31.08 31.65 34.62 38.53 36.88 Chile 15.48 15.53 16.1 17.49 17.42 18.84 22.05 22.76 32.98 32.98 Colombia 18.61 19.20 20.49 21.07 21.64 23.18 26.13 27.25 37.25 37.49 Ecuador 11.84 12.92 14.17 14.3 13.16 17.09 18.73 22.48 23.05 21.74 El Salvador 6.30 7.32 8.07 7.90 8.67 10.34 9.64 12.02 8.75 8.36 Mexico 25.29 25.49 29.78 30.98 31.17 31.89 36.35 36.09 38.81 41.80 Panama 32.05 29.12 27.61 30.53 30.45 32.66 41.09 37.51 42.38 44.88 Peru 14.79 14.95 16.33 16.9 17.38 16.96 21.79 21.18 32.8 32.84

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Colombo reinforces its position in the Indian Ocean First deepsea port in Sri Lanka

Container terminals around the world are gearing up in preparation for the handling of ULCVs. The Indian Subcontinent, with its growing middle class, is an increasingly important market for container lines. Colombo (Sri Lanka) wants to strengthen its position as the most important hub in the region by adding three new terminals, one of which was recently opened.

5 August was a special day for Sri Lanka. zone should generate fur- When the South Container Terminal ther growth. was opened, as part of a recent port ex- Farid T. Salem, an exec- pansion project, the country established utive officer of the CMA its first container handling site that is tai- CGM Group, is con- lored to managing ultra-large container vinced that Colombo has vessels (ULCVs). The first out of a total the perfect prerequisites to of three new terminals has an annual further strengthen its po- ps Ma capacity of 2.4millionteu. When the sition as a maritime hub le og projected construction work is finished, for the region: «Colombo Go p:

capacity will reach the 7.2millionteu provides the only deepsea Ma mark. The depth of water in the port ba- port for ultra-large con- The deepsea port of Colombo is favourably situated to receive sin is 18 m, which provides ample room tainer vessels in the re- cargo destined for the Indian Subcontinent. for modern vessels – which are continu- gion. With the ending of ing to grow and grow. its civil war, Sri Lanka can now exploit its larpadam (Kochi, in the southern state Colombo is now the only port in the advantageous geographic position to the of Kerala), making it the country’s first region that can process ULCVs, thanks full.» CMHI has already begun construc- such site. The port has deepened its ba- to this new facility. The port has already tion work on a second new terminal. It is sin, but volumes have not really gained received its largest ever ship with the ar- slated for inauguration at the beginning any significant momentum, mainly be- rival of the 363m CMA CGM Pegasus, of 2014. cause of India’s complicated and slow which is capable of carrying 11,400 teu. customs processing formalities. Sri Vallarpadam wants to compete Lanka is therefore very likely to further Money from the Far East The competition to acquire cargo for increase its lead in the transhipment field China’s influence in Sri Lanka is increas- the populous region of the Indian Sub- with the punctual opening of the new ter- ing in line with its involvement in the de- continent is growing. Last year the In- minal in Colombo. velopment of the port of Colombo, the dian government issued a concession for Antje Veregge most important transhipment hub for transhipment cargo to the port of Val- www.slpa.lk the Indian Subcontinent. The Chinese company China Merchants Holdings (International) owns 85% of the new In brief issued a tender to enlarge the port of Tibar port facilities. CMHI took over a 49% Bay. At present the facility is merely a small stake in Terminal Link, the terminal G6 axing services. The member lines of the tanker port, but it is now set to have two arm of the French shipping line CMA G6 Alliance – APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai container terminals with a capacity of up to Merchant Marine, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Nippon 600,000teu, as well as a breakbulk terminal, CGM, last June. Since 2005, CMHI has Yusen Kaisha and Orient Overseas Container added. www.timor-leste.gov.tl already invested around USD3.7billion Line – are cancelling two voyages in early (EUR2.8billion) in Sri Lanka’s port in- October. Hapag-Lloyd said the move is due K Line investing. The Japanese shipping frastructure. to ship maintenance and the national holiday corporation has awarded a contract for the The Chinese holding is bearing 85% week in China. Additional sailing schedule construction of four new car transporters. The of the more than EUR229million port adaptations are also possible. new ships should be more fuel efficient and expansion costs. The project is set up www.hapag-lloyd.com offer greater flexibility for cargo handling. as a public-private partnership. The Sri They will replace old tonnage in K Line’s fleet. Lankan government has designated the Growth in East Timor. The strong increase The Japanese carrier expects to generate new terminal as a free port, in order to in containerised cargo in Indonesia in the past substantial growth in the car transport and reinforce Colombo’s significance for the few years has now spread to neighbouring ro-ro cargo sectors. cross-loading of cargo destined for other East Timor. The island state’s government has www.kline.co.jp regions. An adjacent free trade logistics International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Miscellaneous 41

Motif hunting on water and in the air Technology’s little tricks

The «Pirates of the Caribbean» are mainly from Hollywood these days. The fact that the largest message in a bottle ever was temporarily lost was not due to deficient telematics either. Taking photos, in turn, can be quite complicated, and sometimes rewarding too.

Can you remember the biggest ever mes- 100,000 Norwegians who had joined in a sage in a bottle? We reported on a PR related quiz. It seemed as if the message campaign launched by a Norwegian lem- in a bottle would never be found again. onade manufacturer on this page in the Seemed. Until 27 August. That was the lo So last issue of our journal (ITJ 35-36/2013, day on which a report arrived from Vene- : page 53) that starred said bottle. In the zuela. The bottle «sighted» land – if the to Pho meantime it seemed as if it had somehow equipment had still been on board. For Los Roques, 100 miles north of mainland Vene ended up as a washout. The agency had the lack of messages from the ship was zuela, was where the pirated bottle landed. originally expected the unmanned but not due to the failure of the tracking technically very well-equipped boat to and tracing technology, but rather that uled full-freighter operator is staging its drift from Teneriffa (Spain) across the the cameras (360°), antennae, batteries famous competition for amateur and Atlantic Ocean for around 70 days. But (600kg), computers and supplies (24 bot- expert aeroplane spotters for the third after more than 150 days the vessel sud- tles of Solo lemonade) were not on board, time. The competition is open in the four denly stopped sending data to the satel- as the coast guard picture shows. categories AN-124-100 Ruslan, IL-76TD- lite, bringing an end to the impressive Whoever took the evocative picture 90VD, Boeing B747 as well as a prize for pictures from the big blue – as well as an has until 15 October to do it again, cap- the photographer whose image receives end to the hopes of finding a competition turing Volga-Dnepr Group full-freighters the highest number of individual online winner, for that was part of the fun for in action. The Russian charter and sched- visitors. photo.volga-dnepr.com

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On targets

«Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts.» Mark Twain (1835–1910), US humorist and author

I love my mother. I’ve always admired her I was impressed by Pablo Picasso’s oft-quot- having a guilty conscience. My old boss strong will, her ability to assert herself, ed philosophy. «I don’t seek – I find. Seeking would simply have collared me in the cor- her perseverance.I think I must have is based on old treasures and on a desire ridor and asked me to come into his of- been around 13 or 14 when she quoted to find something that’s already known in fice. «We need to have a chat.» But that’s something said by one Reinhold Bertsch. what’s new. Finding – now that’s going for so old hat. «If you don’t know where you want to something completely new!» go, then you’ll never arrive.A person The employee’s targets! A thought en- needs goals, clear and explicit goals.»I Today,I work as a dispatcher for a large tered my mind. «If you don’t know where suppose she was reacting to one of my international freight forwarder. In this role, you want to go, then you’ll never arrive. school reports or something. To this day of course, the path is decidedly not the A person needs goals, clear and explicit I don’t know who this Bertsch was. My goal. Our driver had better simply deliver his goals.» Could it be that my mother had father saw matters a little more pragmati- consignment in the right place at the right such incredible foresight and felt in the cally. His point of view had been honed time – and nothing else! Geographical goals depths of her subconscious that goals by many years of practical experience. remain at the centre of my life, even if in a would one day become management’s His dry contribution to the conversation slightly different way. Remained at the centre be-all and end-all? consisted of a Confucius quote. «The path – until yesterday. is the goal.» Said it, turned and left. But It could all be so simple really, couldn’t I wanted to have the last word this time. My new boss – an MBA who worked as a it? The boss and his worker sit down «You have to aim next to the bull’s eye to consultant for a well-known and respected together, assess where to go from here hit it.» Another Chinese saying, at least. international business consultancy for three and what results need to be achieved years after graduation, no less – wrote me at the end of the period. Hey presto – Goals were exclusively geographical in an e-mail on Friday evening at 22.34, ask- one employee’s targets agreement. Not nature for me at that time, however. At ing me to a meeting on Tuesday morning exactly rocket science. Old wine in new first I was interested in the Netherlands, at 07.35. The only item on the agenda: the bottles. particularly Amsterdam, Rotterdam and employee’s targets agreement! Groningen. Later on, South and Central I like German businessman Sebastian America, Colombia, Nicaragua and El Sal- Now, I hadn’t read my work e-mails at the Alscher’s synopsis. «The deal is the vador fascinated me. Asia played a rather weekend – nor on Monday, either, as I goal». subordinate role – despite its formidable had taken a day of leave, in order to go for diversity of sayings and pearls of wisdom. an overdue medical appointment without Torsten Kollande

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This Special is part of 7 Editorial ITJ issue 37-38/2013 8 V. Alexander International Logistics Heat exchangers for France

11 Russian Railways Logistics Oversized refinery cargo

13 Air Bridge Cargo Airlines Satellites on board Premiere at the Euro Airport 10 15 Friderici Overcoming obstacles Chapman Freeborn and Air Cargo International were in charge of the first-ever landing of an Antonov AN-225, the world’s largest freighter, 16 Universal Transport at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport recently. 30t An escort without the police compressors from South Korea were on board.

17 Albacor Shipping International cooperation 15 A pink signal

The Finnish logistics firm Nurminen transported 18 Van der Vlist 450 machine parts from across the planet to a A tram takes to the seas new pulp mill in Belarus.A third of the consignments had special transport needs. 21 Gebrüder Weiss Steel tanks brave the elements

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Colossally detailed work 22 27 Broekman Group Focusing on the HLC The firm Paul Craemer has had a huge industrial press that makes automobile parts delivered. 29 Ipsen Logistics Transporting the equipment from the production Ongoing renovation in Algiers plant in eastern Germany to the firm’s site in western Germany took six days and six nights. 30 Crystal Group and Qualitair&Sea An SME in the project cargo business

33 SNS International Many roads lead to Arabia 33 First full-freighter to Somalia

The Arab Spring has left its marks on the United 33 Nabros Transport Arab Emirates too. The Dubai-based company A low-loader on India’s roads Heavy Load Freight Services needs to find new routes to transport project cargo through a politi- cally difficult region. 34 BLG Logistics Wind power from the North Sea

35 Maersk Line Project cargo in a box Olympic freight 37 36 SAL Heavy Lift The Slovenian port of Koper sportingly accepted Offshore homes on board the challenge of transhipping mobile homes bound for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi (Russia). A Russian freighter shipped the huge 38 Nicolas units across the Black Sea. A record-holder’s successor

41 Volga-Dnepr Between Siberia and Alabama

Getting it just right 45 43 Feldmann and Goldhofer A hydraulic gearbox through the Jura The Dutch enterprise Jumbo is a well-known project cargo specialist. But even old hands need 45 Haropa new ideas when the challenge is as big as the Oil and gas equipment goes green shiploader that the company recently transported from Dalian to Palua. 46 Masthead/Miscellaneous

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After they have been becalmed for The spectrum includes spectacular con- long periods sailors can count on signments such as refinery parts being al strong winds to help them gather shipped to Africa (page 29) and mobile speed again. Columbus already used homes to the site of the Sochi Olympic

this argument to try and encourage his Games (page 37). There are reports rn reluctant crew to stay on board on his on the development of the Tractomas journey into uncharted waters in 1492. heavylift trucks (pages 38–39) as well Today, economic researchers’ exhor- as on pilot projects for the escort of

tations have the same ring about them. heavylift goods on the roads by private ou The US economy has been predicted to firms instead of the police (page 16). grow by a respectable 2.7% next year, We hope you’ll enjoy our Special tj and Japan’s by 1,6%, if one is to be- and look forward to meeting you lieve the IMF’s predictions. The OECD between 23 and 26 September at the expects growth of 1.1% in Europe in Breakbulk Americas trade fair in New 2014, Ernst&Young’s 0.9% is more Orleans. cautious. The BRIC states are expect- Yours cordially, ing 6.2% growth – even though the por figures for Brazil, Russia and India were downgraded recently. That sounds promising, after a long sticky patch. ns The economic trend of the next few months cannot be discerned yet. What we can do is confidently proclaim that ra the heavylift and project cargo segment is doing well, as you will be

able to ascertain from the many .t examples of success reported in this week’s special supplement. www Christian Doepgen Editor-in-chief 8Heavylift / Breakbulk Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

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The US firm V. Alexander International Logistics, founded in Tennessee in 1946, has run Expansion in India a subsidiary in Bremen (Germany) since 2008. The company has already handled many V. Alexander International Logistics recently also launched its own organisation heavylift transport jobs from Germany to international destinations in 2013. in India. It is headquartered in Mumbai and has 16 offices across the country. The firm V. Alexander International Lo- once again carried an oversized and very The Germany subsidiary completed the gistics is well-established in Germany. heavy heat exchanger from Berlin to the shipment of over-dimensioned cases The undertaking has carried out several French commune of Lavéra, near Fos on of machinery from Germany to India. heavylift transport orders to Mediterra- the Mediterranean coast. The overland V. Alexander carried out the stuffing, nean countries and also beyond its Euro- heavylift transport task weighed 56 t over- pre-carriage, sea freight, on-carriage, pean markets recently. all, and covered the 1,800 km route in ap- customs clearance and cargo survey in In this European summer’s heat V. Al- proximately four days. The company’s in- India. cd exander, a member to the Cargo Equip- house surveyor was on location in Lavéra www.valexandertransport.de ment Experts CEE network in Germany, to sign off the shipment. www.valexander.com YOUR CARGOINSAFE HANDS Choose AdvanceInternational Transportand your cargo will be in safehands,managed with careand expertise.

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An Antonov AN-225 lands in Central Europe First visit to Basel-Mulhouse

Chapman Freeborn, an international airfreight broker, and Air Cargo International (ACI), a logistics specialist based in Paris (France), have successfully completed a gigantic transport project. The two partners jointly coordinated the charter of one of the biggest freight aircraft in the world to transport five huge compressors weighing a total of 140t.

On 27 June an Antonov AN-225 took off load project. With the support of their ing of the compressors, weighing about from Seoul Incheon international airport German colleagues, the French team of 30t each, which was carried out with in South Korea, heading for Central Eu- Chapman Freeborn supervised activities the assistance of a large crane. Giorgio rope. After a technical stopover in Baku at the airport and monitored the unload- Monti, Chapman Freeborn’s cargo char- (Azerbaijan) it landed at the Euro Airport ter manager for France, was delighted to Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, which is lo- have successfully implemented this heavy cated both in Switzerland and in France. goods project together with ACI, and was This route was a first for the world’s big- simultaneously «proud of being the first gest freighter aircraft. company to bring the AN-225 to Basel- The Paris office of Chapman Free- Mulhouse-Freiburg.»

born had chartered the full-freighter eeborn In the early afternoon on the follow- Fr from Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines, which n ing day, the empty aircraft took off for ma

makes the huge jet (only ever built once) ap Leipzig, heading for its next assignment. Ch available for special tasks. The company : Its appearance there is also one of the rea- to worked in close partnership with ACI sons behind growing volumes at Germany’s Pho in order to coordinate the heavy pay- Basel, 28 June – a photo for the firm’s album. second-largest airfreight airport, as Markus

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On 2 July the AN-225 took off from Leipzig Huge rail freight for airport for its next assignment. southern Russian refinery chartered airfreight is also posting a positive performance. In particular in the heavy Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL), the

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air our customers are using the benefits of the erator, organised the transportation of le al Leipzig/Halle airport’s location as well as an oversized consignment with a total -H

ipzig those of our subsidiary Port Ground for the weight of 334t from the Ryazan oil re- Le

: handling of such loads.» The fact that the finery. The heavy equipment was trans- to AN-225 has already been used four times ported from the Atomenergomash plant Pho this year at Leipzig/Halle proves his point. in Volgodonsk, 1,000km south of Mos- Kopp, chairman of the airport operator www.aircargoint.com cow, by rail to the city famous for its Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding, said. «In www.euroairport.com heavy industry, which in turn is located addition to the continuously growing ex- www.leipzig-halle-airport.de 200km southeast of the Russian capital. press freight volumes we are registering, www.chapman-freeborn.com The freight was loaded onto two separate 12-axle sections and sent on its journey A case of particularly oversized freight in a single train, to keep disruptions to traffic as minimal as possible during the The charter experts at Chapman Freeborn can look back on other successful projects with Antonov main holiday period. AN-225 airfreight charters, including the first commercial flight of the AN-225 to South America in RZDL sees great potential in trans- 2010, which was carried out on the orders of the Brazilian oil group Petrobras (see ITJ 13-14/2010, porting oversized and extra heavy loads. Heavylift/Breakbulk Special, page 15). The unique aircraft is strong enough to lift a payload of up To this end it is diversifying its modes of to 250t. It was originally designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s to transport the transport and now also offers its custom- Soviet space shuttle Buran. The Antonov AN-225 is an expansion of the successful AN-124 freight ers maritime shipments and road haulage, aircraft – an aircraft type used frequently around the world to transport oversized and extra heavy in addition to the transportation of cargo loads (see also page 21). ah consignments by rail. www.antonov.com www.rzdlog.com

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Russian firm transports aerospace equipment by air Putting satellites into orbit

Air Bridge Cargo Airlines (ABC), a company in Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group, recently transported satellite equipment weighing a total of 16 t from France to Russia. At the beginning of summer the Volga-Dnepr Group prolonged an existing cooperation agreement with a leading manufacturer of satellite systems to 2016.

The Volga-Dnepr Group, one of the leading Russian and global airfreight specialists for transporting outsize and heavyweight shipments, has prolonged a cooperation agreement with the global logistics company SDV and Thales Alenia Space, a manufacturer of satellite systems, up to 2016. The extended pact to transport aerospace equipment was signed by Dennis Gliznoutsa, Volga-Dnepr Airlines’s development vice-president, Francis Bar- go Car

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the 50th Le Bourget Paris air show that Pho took place in June this year. Aerospace freight is always sensitive, and transport becomes even more tricky in adverse weather conditions such as those prevailing on arrival in Siberia. Flying satellite components Pursuant to the agreement, Volga-Dnepr nership with two of the leaders in their re- helicopters and engines, for customers in Airlines will perform a number of AN-124 spective fields of expertise.» Outside the the aerospace industry. and IL-76TD-90VD cargo flights to de- framework of the newly-prolonged agree- Denis Ilin, executive president of ABC, liver satellite equipment for Thales Alenia ment, Air Bridge Cargo Airlines (ABC), explained that «we’ve established a tried- Space. SDV will shoulder responsibility a member of the Volga-Dnepr Group and and-tested track record for the movement for the entire logistics chain before and Russia’s largest scheduled freight airline, of highly-sensitive and valuable aerospace after flights. transported satellite equipment weighing cargo, and are considered a very reliable SDV’s services encompass satellite con- a total of 16 t on 2August. transportation partner by clients in the tainer control, customs clearance, docu- industry.» mentation and insurance. Gliznoutsa Antonov, Ilyushin and Boeing Ilin underscored ABC’s increasing stated that «the agreement is in place up The shipment was stowed on one of the number of regular clients and pointed to 2016. We have a long history of cooper- carrier’s Boeing 747-400 freighters, which to the economical «cargo supermarket» ation with SDV and Thales Alenia Space flew the goods from Toulouse (France) offer that is marketed by Volga-Dnepr and we’re proud to be extending our part- to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia (Russia). The Airlines. It is the best option for consign- highly-sensitive and valua- ments where B747 transportation is the ble aerospace consignment most viable. was loaded onto pallets for the transport leg and de- Cargo supermarket offer livered to its destination in What ABC has already achieved in the pristine condition. heavylift transport business does not Air Bridge Cargo Air- make the firm ready to rest on its lau- lines handles high value rels, however, as Ilin stated. «Like every cargo for aerospace clients other airline we’re aware of the need to on a regular basis. In the constantly improve our services to be epr first half of the current competitive. So we’ve introduced a fleet a-Dn

lg year the airline carried optimisation programme and looked at Vo

: more than 1,000 t of how to manage our route network and to equipment that encom- our management processes to find ways Pho Dennis Gliznoutsa, Francis Baron and Thierry Ehrenbogen passed other space goods of enhancing our services.» www.sdv.com (from the left) signing the agreement in Le Bourget this year and aircraft components, www.airbridgecargo.com extending their collaboration. as well as spare parts for www.volga-dnepr.com www.ipsenlogistics.com

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transport logistics management in the Svetlogorsk project. The first transports have already been carried out. The final loads to be transported are expected for mid-2014. en

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: located around the globe – predomi- to nantly in Finland, Sweden, Hungary and Pho The heavylift transportation of plant parts by Nurminen Logistics was a carried out predominantly via Austria. Smaller consignments will come Finland and the Baltic states to Belarus. from various European countries. The loading stations located furthest Nurminen Logistics organises heavylift transport to Belarus from the destination in Belarus can be found in the US. The transport routes will run mainly via the various branches Machine parts from around of Nurminen Logistics, located in Fin- land and in the Baltic states as well as in Belarus itself. the world for a new pulp mill Belarus has invested heavily in industry and infrastructure projects over the Nurminen Logistics, a Finnish logistics company, is currently organising the past couple of years. According to Nur- transportation of machine parts for a pulp mill in Svetlogorsk (Belarus) for minen Logistics, which is also a member of the heavylift network Cargo Equip- Andritz, a machine engineering company. The various heavylift transports ment Experts (CEE), this project load will be carried out in steps by the middle of next year. is the biggest undertaking ever to have been implemented by a Finnish logistics The project, in which Nurminen Logis- loads. The enterprise estimates that one company in Belarus to date. tics plays a key role and which has an third of these fall into the category of spe- Robert Altermatt order volume amounting to more than cial transports. In addition, Nurminen www.nurminenlogistics.com EUR2million, consists of a total of 450 Logistics is also responsible for the entire www.cargoequipmentexperts.com

Friderici ships transformer for nuclear power plant in France

The Swiss transport company Friderici heavy freight (it was 8m long, 4m wide a bridge that was unable to support the Spécial recently transported a transformer and 4m high) was transported with one weight of the load represented a further weighing 248t for a nuclear power plant platform carriage featuring ten axle lines, obstacle to be negotiated. The bypass in France. The journey covered 220km. and one with twelve, as well as a side sup- road had to be specially reinforced with It started from Corbeil-Essonnes, in the porter bridge. After crossing the A6 motor- aluminium and steel plates to achieve the metropolitan area of Paris, and ended in way, which connects Paris with Lyon, and necessary load-bearing capacity. ra Belleville-sur-Loire in central France. The a demanding rail intersection in Briare, www.friderici.com 16 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

Escorts for heavylift cargo shipments As permitted by the police t or Shipping Heavylift cargo without a police escort?A pilot ansp Tr l project in Germany allows a private company to carry sa er iv out mandatory police escort duties. Un : to Pho The shipping of heavylift cargo is booming in many Project manager Andreas Winkeloch symbolically taking charge of the traffic regions. The regulations governing such transport tasks lights’ remote control from police commissioner Klaus Lücke. are subject to constant change in many German states. In Lower Saxony, for example, whose seaports tranship now employed, replacing the law enforcement officers, in line with the heavylift cargo such as components for wind farms, company’s slogan «don’t worry, be heavy!». amongst other things, shipments may be delayed if no police units are available to undertake escort duties. Security comes at a price According to the legal and regulatory framework it is This increased availability comes at a price, however, because the pri- mandatory for a shipment with a vehicle length of over vate company charges more for this service than the public authority. 30m and a width of 3.7m to have a police escort. The However, as time is money for heavylift cargo shipments, the service is fact that many shipments have to be undertaken at night widely accepted. Christian Doepgen on weekdays makes this situation even more difficult. www.brake.niedersachsenports.de www.universal-transport.com Public tender for private escort services The port industry was unwilling to allow the growing demand for heavylift cargo shipments to stall due to the lack of police escorts. Following much bowing and scrap- ing in the state capital, Hanover, a functional specifica- Tuscor Lloyds tion was therefore developed for a pilot project. Private GLOBAL LOGISTICS companies, in compliance with the regulations, were to be allowed to escort heavylift cargo shipments on a particularly busy route between the port of Brake, which lies on the lower, deepwater stretches of the river Weser, and the Stotel motorway intersection. They would replace the police and undertake the same duties as the latter. Why was this particular route chosen? The number of heavylift cargo shipments between Brake and Stotel has increased by 110% from 2011 to 2012, from 688 to 1,446, resulting in an urgent need for action. The pan-European tender for the franchise, entitled «private escorts for port- related abnormal and heavy loads via the Golzwarden bypass», was administered by Niedersachsen Ports. The afore-mentioned bypass of the Golzwarden intersection had already been inaugurated in June 2011, and had since eliminated the previously rather frequent closures of major roads for heavylift cargo shipments in this location.

Trained escort staff and new traffic lights In July 2013, the pilot project was awarded to Universal Transport. The company from Paderborn has 500 employees and its own fleet, based at 16 sites, including some in Poland, Czechia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Find out howwecan help at www.tuscorlloyds.com, It handles approximately 200 international heavylift car- or contact us at +44 (0) 161868 6000 or go shipments a night, and has first-hand experience of [email protected]. the challenges. Seven specially-trained escort staff are International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special 17

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How to get a houseboat on a low-loader A home in the sun for swimmers

The transport of yachts and boats is an everyday matter for numerous project logistics companies. Houseboats that one generally sees as floating homes on rivers, in contrast, provide a completely different challenge to transporters, because of their large hulls. Hegmann, a member company of Big Move, recently put its haulage skills to the test.

Nearly everyone has experienced large yachts being transported by road. House- boats, in contrast, or floating homes, to give them their alternative name, are still an exotic sight on highways. Yachts with centrally-mounted keels amidships require special supports to ensure that the vessel is stabilised and can be transported safely. Houseboats, for their part, have to ve be shored up in an even more special way Mo g Bi to keep them stable. : The depth of the massive parallel hulls to Pho on either side of the boat overshoots the A houseboat with catamaran-like twin hulls represented quite a challenge for the trailer. height of any special trailer platform. This means that, in order to haul a 14 m tions at an angle from the centre were laid freight consignments that are stowed in long, 6m wide and 4.2m high boat by on the substructure on which the boat this manner. Hegmann loaded the new road, the loading platform of the trailer was to be positioned. To guarantee sta- floating home at the boat manufacturer’s must be raised by 1m. This guarantees ble transport conditions the substructure premises in the Netherlands, and after a that there is sufficient clearance between and crossbeams needed to fit the under- 100km road trip the vessel reached its the boat and the road. body of the vessel precisely. A load se- destination at a lake in Xanten, near Dus- Hegmann, a member company of Big curing system with tensioning straps was seldorf (Germany). The heavylift expert Move, not only had to create the ad- used to keep the balancing act in place. shouldered the task of lifting the vessel ditional bearing height on the loading The weight alone did not make this into the water and then the client was able platform, the firm also had to ensure suf- transport into a heavylift undertaking. to take over the helm. ficient stability. A number of additional It was the special gravitational and cen- edited by Christian Doepgen crossbeams radiating out in both direc- trifugal forces that have an effect on www.bigmove.net

Vintage trams from museum to Budapest

Carrying trams is nothing out of the ordinary for the heavylift accustomed to handling require modular trailers to facilitate transporter Van der Vlist, given that this type of vehicle has re- their transportation, on account of their usually great length. mained popular in many cities across the world. The company This was not the case with the veteran trams from Budapest, was recently faced with a special challenge when it was asked to though, because they were much shorter. But the special loading transport two decommissioned Budapest tram carriages (with the and offloading rails that the company has developed for such operational numbers of 2576 and 2577), which were last used as transports proved helpful, given the need to repeatedly load the long ago as in 1981. trams on and off trailers.

From England to Hungary Multimodal methods The two carriages, each measuring more than 10 m in length, After the trams were loaded onto flat trailers with built-in rails 2.3m wide and more than 3m high and weighing 11.3t, had been in Frosterley, the twin carriages were hauled by road to the port on show for decades in the West Yorkshire Transport Museum of Hull, from where they were shipped across the North Sea to in Bradford, and later also in the village of Frosterley in Durham Rotterdam. After their safe arrival on mainland Europe the road (both England). Fans belonging to the Hungarian historical leg to Budapest began. railway association Mavite held collections and negotiations After a trip of over 4,000 km and 28 years in exile from Hun- and succeeded in bringing the trams back home to Hungary, gary, the trams were finally unloaded in Budapest. Mavite plans however. to restore them before they are exhibited. The association’s ambi- The association approached Van der Vlist about managing tion in the medium term is to put the trams back onto the same the transport, as the firm’s expertise in hauling heavylift ve- tracks that they once ran on in Budapest 30 years ago. cd hicles is renowned. The modern trams that Van der Vlist is www.vandervlist.com ALTIUS SA (ProjectsDivision) Your SpecialistsinHeavy transport, projects (oil &gas,power plants,modules,crane movements, miningequipment, wind millsetc) WWW.ALTIUS.ES

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Gebrüder Weiss deploys a giant of the skies Extreme conditions bring out the best

The Austrian logistics firm Gebrüder Weiss, which is based in Lauterach, is keen to carry out more project cargo operations. GW proved its impressive heavylift credentials recently when it successfully handled two massive air transport tasks under difficult weather conditions. g Hau eas dr An / GW : to Pho Similar pictures, different conditions. Sweltering heat or pouring rain cannot hamper GW’s precision work when loading 70 t steel tanks on board an AN-124 – one of the most complex tasks in airfreight project cargo operations.

Zurich airport was the scene of two im- ITJ, «but as the manufacturer had fallen aircraft was able to bring its routine for pressive heavylift transportation tasks behind schedule there was no alternative such activities into play, setting up the recently, first on 25 July and then again to air transport.» The undertaking nev- loading ramp efficiently and precisely. on 9 August. In each operation a steel ertheless required three months of plan- After a mobile crane with a 50t counter- tank weighing 70 t was hauled on board ning. Most of the transport took place weight had been brought into position for an Antonov AN-124, for delivery to a at night, to ensure minimal hindrance of its role, the tanks were smoothly pulled waste incineration plant in Houston TX traffic. The special units were accompa- into the planes on carriages, with the help (USA). The AN-124 is the second-largest nied by a police escort and had to pass of chain/cable haulage equipment. serially-produced freighter aircraft in the through the Gotthard tunnel, which was The mobile phone of GW’s airfreight world, and the units were operated by the closed to traffic for an hour at midnight. manager Ivo Protjuder rang during the Russian all-cargo carrier Polet Airlines operation, heralding a request to carry Both of the heavy transportation or- Planning every minute detail out a heavylift transportation job in Co- ders had set of from northern Italy. The The weather cannot be programmed in lombia. The Antonov could thus be mak- tanks were transported to Zurich airport the same way. The first tank was loaded ing a little detour on its way back from the on eight-axle flat-bed trucks. «Such loads in sweltering heat, whilst the August date USA. GW’s project cargo business seems are usually shipped across the Atlantic saw incessant rain. Nevertheless, opera- to be doing rather well. ah by sea,» Franco Ravazzolo, GW’s project tions on the apron went like clockwork, www.gw-world.com cargo and breakbulk manager, told the according to GW. The crew of the huge www.poletairlines.com

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Shipping a massive industrial press across Germany A colossus takes a trip

An 82m ship, two giant cranes, three heavy goods transporters, and all sorts of logistics equipment was needed for two special vehicles to move a 2,500t servo press for the manufacturing of automotive parts to a production plant in nine days.

A huge industrial press weighing as Keisar, a 80m long and 8m wide freight The outsized load was transported to much as a herd of no less than 100 el- barge that has a sufficient draught to Herzebrock-Clarholz in two night shifts. ephants is currently being assembled for safely forward the equipment from Aken the company Paul Craemer, a specialist (in the Germany state of Saxony-Anhalt) in metal forming, plastics processing, down the river Elbe, along the Mittel- along the 75 km road route to Herze- and toolmaking. The team of techni- land Canal and then the Dortmund–Ems brock-Clarholz, which is in the vicinity cians deployed by the manufacturer has Canal thence on to the heavy goods port of Bielefeld. a time frame of 120 days to complete the of Münster-Hiltrup. Escorted by up to four police vehi- task, which is being carried out in one of cles, the road train, managed by Spedi- Paul Craemer’s new halls. By the end of 500 t on three special transporters tion Bohnet, headquartered in Kirchdorf, September, the machine will be put into After six days and nights on the 450km made its way in the middle of the night. operation by the manufacturer, Schuler inland waterway route, the consignments A 16-axle trailer towed an assembly truck Pressen, for the production of automo- reached their unloading destination. Two and a transport vehicle from the firm Ch. tive parts. special cranes, which had been brought in Dickel BF3, a heavy shipment escort spe- The body of the new press, consisting from the Netherlands, hoisted the heavy cialist from Wilnsdorf-Wilden. Teams of a head piece, a ram and a bed, weighs load from the ship on to land in the early from the latter took care of the disas- 500t alone. At the end of May, the manu- morning – which was quite a spectacle at sembly and re-assembly of several of the facturer sent the colossus – broken down the tranquil pier. Here the special freight traffic, location and informational signs into three huge pieces, plus sundry small was loaded on to three heavy transport- as well as of the placing of steel plates parts – on a journey from the plant in ers, bit by bit. for load distribution on soft terrain. The Erfurt, located in eastern Germany. The Early in June, the load started out from route followed various state and federal massive items were first transported to the Hiltrup and was moved over two nights roads right to the facility of Paul Craemer in Herzebrock-Clarholz.

Seamless heavy goods transport The ram, the centre section of the servo press, was loaded onto the truck in the first night. At 9m long, 5m wide, and 3.5m high, it weighed in at 170t. In the second night, the heavy load transport team loaded two vehicles, one with a head piece 10.5m long, 5m wide and almost 4m high and weighing 170t, and the other with the 10 m long, 5m wide and almost 4m high press bed, weighing 160t. The four-hour overnight time legs were handled by the specialists without any incident. The heavy load road train, whose overall dimensions were 35 m long, 5.5m wide and up to 4.8m high (lowerable by aemer Cr

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worked on the assembly of the new servo Trafiver Logistics new press. The machine includes a stationary tool change truck that houses the stamp- PCN member for Mexico ing tools. With this 8m tool bench the new machine at Craemer is the largest The Mexican company Trafiver Logistics, press ever built. It brings the number of which specialises in heavylift transporta- machines at the Herzebrock-Clarholz lo- tion jobs and project cargo operations, cation to 12 presses with pressing forces was recently accepted as a new member of 400t to 2,500t, including the fourth of the Project Cargo Network (PCN), a with so-called servo direct technology. freight forwarders’ alliance that focuses on project cargo and heavylift firms. Production from autumn 2013 PCN said that Trafiver has become its When the behemoth is completed it third Mexican member. Service provider will weigh 990t, not including all of the Trafiver Logistics was founded in the year peripheral equipment. Starting from au- 2000, and is active primarily in the oil tumn 2013, the servo press will go into and gas industry. The enterprise has ap- aemer Cr

: operation and commence with the pro- proximately 60 employees working at ten to duction of loads of seat shells for the au- locations in Mexico. Pho tomotive industry. ra Such special shipments have their price, edited by ra www.trafiver.com though. The freight costs on water and www.craemer.com www.projectcargonetwork.com on land amounted to as much as the price for nice little home – approximately EUR350,000.

Millimetres to spare at the entrance Arriving at the Craemer plant in the early hours of the morning, the company Spe- dition Hoffmann, an expert for special transportation needs based in Chemnitz, together with a team from Schuler, took over the further transport to the company premises, as well as the assembly of the press. Working with just millimetres to spare, the freight experts and the press specialists manoeuvred the massive items through the entrance into the hall (specially constructed for the new equipment) and jockeyed everything on to the hydraulic gantry to lift and lower the multi-tonne individual parts. This large movable heavy load crane on four steel supports, erected temporarily over the deep press pit, first lifted the head piece to the interim location on the other side of the hall. In the following few weeks they were able to prepare the three large press parts for assembly, and haul them bit by bit in to the 6m deep, 11 m long and 8m wide press pit. The press bed was placed at the very bottom on four stands in the corners, the ram in the middle, and then the press head was put in place. Finally, the anchoring was done with four steel pins through the hollow columns which were first completed with the bolting of 8 heavy nuts, four above and four below, each weighing 450kg. During the 120 days of operations, a dozen specialists from Schuler Pressen Dunkerque, theplacefor breakbulk cargoes

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From Romania to Australia Of boilers and refrigerators

Holleman has expanded steadily across Eastern and Central Europe since it launched its activities in Romania in 1997. It now has branches in Bulgaria, Serbia, Moldova, Hungary and Ukraine. After a management buyout in 2003, the company P. Schwandner Transport+Logistik, from the German town of Pfreimd, assumed ownership of half of the company shares in 2004.

Over the last few months the activities of the heavylift cargo transport company Holleman have been successfully diversified. Some spectacular transport tasks have been handled in the company’s «home countries» in Romania and Bulgaria. In so doing the heavylift cargo transport enterprise relies especially on the well-developed inland waterway navigation network there. eman ll Ho

Condensers to Constantza : Early in September two large condensers to Pho were relayed from Ploiesti to the Black Technical teams closed key sections of the heavylift convoy’s route to regular traffic. Sea port of Constantza (both Romania). The transport was handled via a ro-ro weighing 93 t, was to be transferred from glass factory has been completed. Boilers terminal located in the Romanian inland the inland barge to the factory (which is and a furnace, in contrast, were a differ- port of Oltenita, on the Danube. Each still under construction) using intermod- ent kind of cargo that had to be handled of the steam condensers weighed roughly al transport options. in the summer of 2013. The boilers and 105t and were 6.35 m high on the trans- In less than an hour the cargo was furnaces had to be picked up from differ- portation vehicles. Dozens of electrical, unloaded in the Danube port of Russe ent manufacturing locations in Denmark telephone and television cables had to (Bulgaria) in a tandem operation with a and then consolidated. There are 144km be removed prior to setting off on the mobile and a floating crane. During over- between Odense on Fyn and Aarhus in overland transport leg of the route. With land transport the 120km to the destina- Northern Jutland (both Denmark). these cables the condenser would have tion were covered in less than eight hours, The destination of the cargo was a been 6.95 m high. even though the delicate transport opera- power station in the village of Katunitsa, On the Danube Holleman used a tion had to be escorted by the police and near Plovdiv, the second-largest Bulgar- barge with a 2,000t loading capacity. a special technical team. ian city. The boiler’s dimensions were Transferring the units to the ship, with 7.8m high, 3.57 m wide and 3.9m long, the use of gantries on pontoons, required Refrigeration units for a glass factory and it weighed 33 t. This was bested by approximately nine hours of work. After Existing barriers were successfully han- the furnace, however, which weighed 35 t a distance of 200km was covered on the dled by the staff accompanying the trans- and measured 9m long, 3.3m wide and Danube, the Holleman team was also in port. For safety reasons all bridges on the 4.2m high. charge of handling the heavylift cargo route were closed to regular traffic while in the port of Constantza, including all the transport passed through. Holleman On time and well-executed lashing required. The condensers left the will handle the final placement of the From Odense and Aarhus the heavylift port as ocean freight destined for Austral- refrigeration container on site once the cargo was transported overland to the ia, where they will be used in a refinery. German Danube port of Regensburg, In Bulgaria, in turn, the company had transferred there to an inland barge and to keep cool for a particularly sensitive shipped in two successive transports to cargo handled in August. Holleman re- the Bulgarian port of Russe. The trans- ceived an order to transport an oversized ports were handled separately, upon refrigeration container from the Turkish the explicit request of the shipper. This glass producer Sisecam – one of the larg- heavylift cargo transport was not the first est investors in Bulgaria, which has been one for the principal, but was again im- eman

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Competition in Northern Europe Facelift for the Waalhaven port area

The port of Rotterdam is Europe’s leading general cargo hub. Now it is expanding its infrastructure to meet increasing demand for the transhipment of project cargo as well.A comprehensive upgrading of its Heavy Lift Centre, operated by the Broekman Group, is under- way, in order to offer more competitive services in this field.

Competition for market shares in the handling of heavy goods and project car go is fierce among the ports of Northern Europe. Although the two largest players, Rotterdam and Antwerp, are well ahead of their competitors in terms of through put volumes, smaller hubs such as Vliss ingen and Terneuzen (both Netherlands), which have joined forces to form the Zee land Seaports, as well as the port of Ost ende (Belgium), have all been pouring a great deal of funds into the extension of

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ministers, operates and develops the port Pho facilities and the industrial hinterland of The HLC is set for modernisation by 2014, which will create space for the handling of larger loads. Europe’s largest maritime hub, plans to gain some points by opening an upgraded ing crane in the port can move cargos further afield. For Rotterdam, using the terminal in the eastern part of the Rotter weighing up to 1,800t. The quay has a Waalhaven area for project cargo is the damse Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM) draught of up to 10.5m and is 300m long. logical choice. Since it is close to a village, site in the Waalhaven port area. «With this length of quay our terminal very loud activities involving heavy traf The new facilities are scheduled to can process the largest conventional ves fic are out of the question there. come on stream by the end of 2014. The sels that can enter the Waalhaven area,» authority has found a partner in the Jeroen van Doorn, Broekman’s general Good project cargo prospects Broekman Group, which intends to fur manager for strategic logistics develop In addition to its division dedicated to ther expand its existing business in the ments, explained. To further extend the handling special products, the Broek Heavy Lift Centre (HLC). In total, the au quay, the adjacent area would have to be man Group also offers services in logis thority will invest more than EUR15 mil added to the HLC. This site is occupied tics, maritime shipping and the transport lion in the project, while Broekman will by another company, however. of automobiles. The latter segment has continue to operate the terminal in the come under particular pressure in the years to come, albeit under slightly modi Built close to the water current economic climate. The project fied terms. With this move, Rotterdam Broekman and the port’s authority be cargo business, however, has excellent wants to meet increasing demand and lieve they have a decisive competitive ad prospects for growth in the years to come. above all improve its position with regard vantage because they can store especially Antje Veregge to its competitor Antwerp. large and heavy cargos close to the quay www.broekman-group.com side there. «No other European port can Completion scheduled for 2014 offer storage space so close to the water,» The Rotterdam port authority Broekman intends to open four upgraded said van Doorn. «Moreover, our ware halls by the third quarter of 2014. These houses have doors up to 23m high,» he The port authority has invested approximate- facilities will provide a total storage space continued. Customers like ABB, Alstom ly EUR100million in upgrading general cargo of 16,000sqm and overhead cranes with or Siemens, which have to ship very large infrastructure in recent years. In 2012, the lifting capacities of between 75 and 700t. but sensitive cargo, could benefit from hub reported a throughput of 23.8milliont The terminal will also offer an uncovered this service. of general cargo, including ro-ro services, a storage and cargo handling area stretch In addition, the Waalhaven area is slight decrease from the 25.1 milliont regis- ing over about 26,000sqm. connected to an inland waterway network tered in 2011. Antwerp, on the other hand, Some older warehouses have already with good links to destinations in the handled 15.7 milliont in 2012 and 16.7 mil- been pulled down. The quay cranes at the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France liont in 2011. HLC can only lift up to 45 t, but a float and Switzerland, as well as the Danube www.portofrotterdam.com Soli-Trans Speditions GmbH Konsul-Smidt-Str. 8c D-28217 Bremen, Germany Soli-Trans Phone +49 (0) 421 - 165 85 -0 Fax +49 (0) 421 - 165 85 -30 e-mail [email protected] We take care of your project, tailor-made solution By Sea, by Air, by river barge or by specialTruck

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Ipsen Logistics – soon to be four decades in the African project cargo business Coming of age in the global market

The Ipsen Logistics corporation, which is headquartered in Bremen (Germany), is currently running the logistics for a refinery renovation and expansion project in the Algerian capital of Algiers. With a newly-established central project cargo department the company’s position in the global project cargo business should continue to grow.

There are strict regulations for the project cargo business in the port of Algiers. Breakbulk cargo may not be unloaded – unless a company is able to obtain a special permit for such extraordinary transport tasks. The local employees of Ipsen Logistics know the procedure, and also know exactly what has to be done to ensure that a two-year project for the renovation and expansion of a large refinery in Algiers does not have to avoid using the obvious hub and divert busi- s ic ness to another port. The permit the firm st

needed was issued, but with a catch. The en Logi Ips load had to be transferred immediately, : with no form of intermediate storage in to Pho the port allowed. Ipsen Logistics was recently in charge of handling and immediately forwarding a 21 m piece of refinery equipment in the port of Algiers. Parts from every corner of the globe The equipment in this contract came from to the construction site. The police ac- Sogamoso hydroelectric plant in Colom- all over the world, mainly on chartered company this leg of the route too. In the bia have been delivered, amongst others. ships. The load consisted of around 60% last twelve months, 30 charter ships with The heavylift and project cargo division breakbulk items (without specially-large a total volume of 130,000t have been is set to be expanded across the entire dimensions), and the remaining 40% ar- processed in this manner. They carried globe in future. rived in the form of heavylift or oversized pieces measuring up to 28m in length, «After 36 years of successfully deliver- cargo. There had to be a sufficient num- with widths of up to 5.5m and up to 5.7m ing project cargo services in Africa, we’ve ber of trucks on the quay for every ship high. Some of the parts weighed up to come of age for the global market and are that arrived, so that the vehicles could be 132t. The percentage of the valuable con- moving away from this geographical limi- loaded directly from the ship without any struction parts that was damaged or lost tation. We’ve already shown how much delay. This meant that, on any one day, during loading and handling amounted we can do, but we can offer more. Now a total of up to 40 trailers were brought to precisely 0%, according to a corporate is the time to position ourselves accord- in. At night they left in convoy for the spokesperson, which, he said, represented ingly,» said Henrique Wohltmann, who customs warehouse, under customs seal a great success for the company. has been in charge of the project cargo and with an escort formed by the police The focus of Ipsen Logistics, above all division at Ipsen Logistics since July. and customs authorities. in Algeria, is specifically on the project Transportation out of the port of cargo business. This new project is one New management, new structure Algiers was carried out solely at night, as of many – over the last ten years there It is not just the management of the pro- there is a general ban on trucks moving in have been around 50 such undertakings, ject cargo business that is new at Ipsen, the city during the day. Unloading took mainly serving the oil and gas industry in but also the entire set up. The manage- place immediately after this, around the the south of the country, as well as other ment of worldwide activities has been clock. The ponderous customs formali- essential country-wide infrastructure de- centralised. This increases efficiency and ties in the country, which make the pay- velopment projects. will result in a central database with all ing of customs duties before transferring sorts of detailed information. Everyone the load impossible, cost a lot of time. Extensive expertise in the team can then benefit from the Ipsen Logistics Algeria is one of the few The company has used its extensive ex- knowledge of colleagues across the globe. non-Algerian firms that has been issued perience in its other target areas in Asia «This is our one of our strengths,» Wohlt- with an official customs licence. This is and South America. For example, plant mann added. «We’re a global team, even a huge advantage, especially for large pro- components and systems for the con- if our local operational units are autono- jects. After the customs duties have been struction of the Tuban IV and Tonasa V mous.» edited by ra successfully paid, the delivery was made cement plants in Indonesia and for the www.ipsenlogistics.com 30 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

In conversation with the Crystal Group’s Joël Glusman and Qualitair&Sea’s Eric Hennet Three answers to project questions

The Crystal Group, which is headquartered at Charles de Gaulle airport in of what we have called The Aerospace Logistics Alliance Paris, shows how a medium-sized enterprise can successfully work with (Tala) last January (see ITJ 07-08/2013, page 18) is a vivid example of this. The development of our project cargo the complexities of the project cargo business. Two of its leading lights business fits very well into this framework. In the group described the model. we’ve created Altus France, which deals exclusively with oil and gas activities and is based on Altus Singapore. Mr Glusman, Mr Hennet, how would you define the strengths of In the final analysis we decided to concentrate on a few the members of Crystal Group? key markets, where we’d like to be considered absolutely Joël Glusman: This is primarily the strength of a team that has com- essential, in the best case, but want to be perceived as mitted itself to joint values, such as proximity to customers, dedica- very strong as the minimum. tion, ingenuity and growth. Our ability to adjust to new markets while structuring our activities is also one of our trump cards. The founding Which markets are you assessing? Eric Hennet: Initially, geographic niche markets, such as Brazil. We’re set to take over a company there shortly. Then there are Turkey and Japan and finally China. Over and above this there are Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, where we have promising branches.

«Transporting components for oil platforms or heavy individual parts of up to 1,000t each requires special expertise.»

But I am also thinking about industry-specific niches, such as the aviation industry (via the company Tala, in which Qualitair&Sea is one the four founding members), the auto industry, the pharmaceuticals sector, as well as the project cargo business in the oil and gas trade.

What funds have you earmarked for the project cargo business, which is a rather complex market? Hennet: It’s a sector in which we have invested a lot in the past few years. We’ve created very professional teams, established an international network with high added value, and have made a name for ourselves by carrying out many technically-demanding operations in sensitive markets. Our project cargo work now runs along three axes. Oil and gas, with Altus France, the transport of helicopters or heavier parts for the aviation industry, with Tala France, and the general industry sector, with Qualitair & Sea.

What are their activities in detail? Hennet: In the oil and gas sector our subsidiary Altus France operates from three platforms, in Marseille, Le Havre and Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. In this sector even classic freight forwarding tasks require a comprehensively technical and highly-specialised approach. It is easy to load a container, but transporting components for oil platforms or heavy individual parts weighing up to 1,000t each requires special expertise regarding safety regulations, handling the cargo mass, its centre of gravity, etc. The management of the supply base takes us to the core expertise of Altus France. This is a question of man- International Transport Journal 37-38 2013 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special 31

tenance companies. These talks make us optimistic for the future. In the oil and gas segment, we’ve got an eye on explorations off the coasts of South America and Africa, in Europe, in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Our base in Dubai is an ideal intermediary for these activities. oup

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Industry projects, finally, are the third axis in our range of logistics services. Our ability to manage oil and aviation activities, which are very demanding when it comes to technology and regulations, serves as a guarantee for the companies who entrust us with transport or logistics for their heavy individual parts or even for their entire projects.

How can a medium-sized enterprise guarantee that it can successfully manage the entire supply chain for project logistics and heavylift cargo? Hennet: We depend on practical and integrated networks, such as Altus or Tala, but also on local partners. connectingWorlds. This may be surprising, but it can work out much bet- Whether heavy lift from the Netherlands to Tajikistan or ter than an international network such as those run by high tech from Germany to Russia: For every project, our multinational competitors, because we have to set the cooperation between our country units is minutely much higher standards in terms of technology, commu- coordinated to run. Make use of the dense Militzer &Münch nications and adaptability. This human face has been network of 100 locations in over 30 countries and convince received particularly well by our customers. yourself of our precision.

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Dubai – a hub for Africa and Asia Finding alternative routes

The 5,000 transport and logistics industry companies in Dubai make the sector a key pillar of the emirate’s economic future. The Arab Spring has also left its marks here, but some firms, such as Heavy Load Freight Services, are doing well. The specialist for the oil and chemicals industry

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Being a key niche player is more lucrative : than ever before in Dubai. Local enter- to Pho prise Heavy Load Freight Services had the Project cargo operations, especially intermodal ones, require very detailed planning. opportunity recently to prove its worth in a North African and a Middle Eastern Aktau (Kazakhstan) from Jebel Ali had to Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). To com- operation. Project cargo activities are on- be shipped to Istanbul, from where it was plete the job in 21 days, the goods were going in the region, despite the difficult trucked to the destinations via Georgia. flown to Amsterdam and then shipped political situation. Another recent task saw goods stored Trinidad in containers. cd in Hamriyah (UAE) needed in Port of www.heavyload-dubai.com Finding new multimodal ways Thus it would have been impossible to transport oilfield equipment – goods of approximately 1,000 cbm – from Jebel Ali Airfreight to Mogadishu 1,880 Indian kilometres (UAE) to Casablanca (Morocco) directly on a vessel, due to the costs involved, so an Somalia is in the news more on account The Indian company Nabros Transport, alternative multimodal route was devised. of maritime issues than airfreight matters a project cargo operations specialist, re- The shipment was sent by road to Egypt these days. Now Mogadishu airport (So- cently completed a special road transport and thence a part charter was organised malia), which was disused for a long time, task in India. The load consisted of a feed for the Alexandria to Casablanca leg. The is being renovated with Turkish help. SNS gas dryer and absorber. The first piece of total transit time for the task amounted to has again set the trend by landing the first equipment measured 38.6 by 5.5 by 5.7m a mere 25 days. Boeing B747F cargo plane at Mogadishu and weighed 432t. The absorber, in turn, Two more truck loads of oilfield equip- airport. The aircraft had been loaded at came in at the record length of 243m. It ment destined for Baku were shipped Tekirdag Çorlu airport (Turkey). was 6.8m high and 5.8m wide and reg- from the same Egyptian port, a task that istered the ever-so slightly more modest was also successfully completed in just 12 Risked the airfreight option weight of 360t. days. Mohammed Al Khouli, the CEO of The load discharged at Mogadishu was Heavy Load Freight Services, pointed out designated for the airport itself and con- Various modes and route lengths that success «required close cooperation sisted of 80t of machinery and equip- The load was discharged in the port of between our agents in Egypt and Turkey ment to be used for airport facilities. The Dahej, in the state of Gujarat, and was as well as the vessel agent.» landing on the runway from the city side hauled by Nabros Transport to Vijaipur, instead of the sea side was rather brave in the Guna district of the state of Madh- Circumventing blocked transit routes by the pilots, as aircraft do not usually ya Pradesh in central India. The total dis- The conflict in Syria represents a chal- choose to use this option, for security tance covered was no less than 1,880km lenge, for example when an out-of-gauge reasons. SNS’s project supervisory team and the transit time for this rather special consignment had to be shipped to Jebel Ali. ensured smooth operations. load was around 30 days. Considering the The firm first had to truck the cargo from SNS likes to set the pace. It remains the dimensions of the consignment Nabros Erbil (northern Iraq) to Mersin (Turkey) record-holder for the heaviest project car- selected a transport combination consist- and then use a ro-ro vessel for the seaborne go load ever hauled between Haydarpasa ing of a 22-axle single line with 16 semi- leg to Jebel Ali. This time it avoided a de- (Turkey) and Turkmenbashi (Turkmeni- axles operating side by side, thus ensur- lay that would have been caused by a part stan), having shifted a 566t consignment ing that the consignments was delivered charter. Due to restrictions for the tran- there in 2010 (see ITJ 49-52/2010, page 27 safely to its final destination. cd sit of goods through Iran, oilfield equip- of the Heavylift/Breakbulk Special). cd www.nabrostransport.com ment destined for Baku (Azerbaijan) and www.sns-international.com www.gpln.net 34 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

New offshore wind power plant in the North Sea Towers and nacelles in place

Germany’s BLG Logistics Group, which has established itself as a strong specialist for logistics services to the offshore wind power industry, is involved in another wind farm in the North Sea. The facility is expected to be connected to the grid at the end of 2013.

Construction of the Global Tech 1 wind wind farm, with final assembly at the farm commenced in September 2012 company Weser Wind’s site. Thereafter, G BL

(see also ITJ 7-8/2012, page 15 of our BLG was commissioned by the con- : Heavylift/Breakbulk Special). Its foun- struction company Hochtief Solutions to Pho dation structures are being transported to transport the tower segments and na- Wind farm towers and nacelles being loaded for to the construction site from the ABC celles. Weser Wind develops and produc- shipping to the North Sea by BLG. Halbinsel (the ABC peninsula, BLG’s off- es foundation structures and transformer shore terminal at Bremerhaven) by the in- platforms for international offshore wind then undertook the lashing of the compo- stallation vessel Innovation. 51 of the 60m energy power plants. nents ready for the sea leg, arranging for tripods, weighing 900t each, have now their transportation to the Fischereihafen been installed at the wind farm, which Ready for installation at sea area of the port of Bremerhaven. covers 43 sqkm and is located 100km BLG loaded the first tower segments for Using its special self-propelled modular northwest of the German island of Juist. the firm Areva’s wind turbines – types transporter vehicles (SPMTs), BLG subse- BLG first held the foundation struc- S1 and S2 – onto the transport barge quently transported the nacelles and their tures in intermediate storage and then Stralsund at the production site of the associated components from their storage transported them for the Global TechI firm Ambau, located in Bremen. BLG locations at the company Areva Wind’s site to the Labradorhafen section of the port, and there arranged their loading In brief WWL ALS in South Africa. WWL ALS, an in- onto the pontoon. The pontoon was then ternational 3PL service provider and heavylift towed to the ABC Halbinsel offshore PCN celebrating. The Project Cargo Network specialist, opened its first representative office terminal, located in the Kaiserhafen sec- (PCN), a freight forwarding alliance that spe- in Johannesburg (South Africa) on 1July. WWL tion of the port. There, the components cialises in project cargo and heavylift opera- has secured a large turnkey project, which will shortly be transferred to Hochtief’s tions, recently celebrated its third anniversary. started recently and will continue to 2015, for Thor installation vessel, which will take PCN has 197 members today, and its global a copper mine in Zambia. WWL ALS can also the components to the construction site, presence includes more than 700 offices in act as a sub-Saharan hub for WWL ALS’s other where they will be installed at sea. 93 countries. African activities. www.wwlals.com www.projectcargonetwork.com www.abnormal-loads.com Robert Altermatt www.blg.de

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Lines want a slice of the cake too activities, as we can often accommodate cargo from these industries on our ships. In the coming years, the market for this «More standardised solutions» type of cargo is expected to increase. Furthermore, developing countries are Many box shipping lines are expanding their project cargo activities, hoping for better becoming more and more active in these margins than in their core sector (see ITJ 19-20/2013, page 17). Nikolaj Forsberg, sectors, leading to more growth.

Maersk Line’s global head of special cargo, believes such a move has potential. Does Maersk benefit from Triple-E ships with regard to carrying project Mr Forsberg, there has been a lot of cargo? talk about liner carriers increasing Triple-E vessels are not exactly set to pro- their activities in the project cargo vide significant improvements for project sector. How is this business segment cargo, as they only cover a small portion developing at Maersk Line? of our total network. Having said that, We have experienced a significant in- we can carry even longer pieces on these crease in this area in the last five years. It ships now, at competitive terms. has been a steep learning curve for us as a container line, which has now increased What trends do you foresee for the our expertise in this segment. ocean transport of project cargo? Historically, all cargo was shipped on spe- ne

Your ships are designed to carry boxes Li cialised vessels. Then the containerisation sk and are not exactly flexible in terms of er of goods arrived, which increased global Ma their fittings. What do you consider to : trade by transporting goods in standard- to ised boxes. This increased frequencies

be your advantages? Pho We feel that customers benefit from the Nikolaj Forsberg, Maersk Line’s global head of and coverage, and at the same time de- global coverage of our network, which special cargo, is due to speak at PLA 2013. creased costs. We expect a similar trend means that they can ship smaller amounts for those types of project cargo suitable of cargo to destinations which would be carriers’ set-up provides fast transit and for shipping on containerships. We will expensive on conventional multipurpose response times, which sometimes proves again increase frequencies and coverage. vessels. Liner carriers offering weekly sail- to be crucial. There will be more standardised solutions ings are able to connect the world with available at lower cost. competitive transit times and more fre- What kind of developments do you an- quent departures. ticipate in the project cargo segment in Nikolaj Forsberg is scheduled to speak Our customers often combine break- the next two years? to the Power Logistics Asia 2013 trade bulk and containers to deliver turn-key We have identified the four segments fair and conference in Singapore on projects that arrive at their destination oil and gas, infrastructure, mining and 30October. av at the same time. For urgent cargo the industrial machinery to be key for our www.powerlogisticsasia2013.com

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: facture it and have it certified. to On top of this, the vessel’s standard Pho The 36m high offshore quarters being shipped on the «Svenja». equipment also had to be adapted to this rather unique job. The ship’s traverse Loading an offshore housing unit had to be rigged and fastened at a certain angle, amongst other things. Various grommets of different lengths had to be Rooms with a view... ordered, and certified expressly for this purpose. Despite these rather difficult No project cargo consignment is like any other, and if the shipment has to be circumstances SAL was able to complete delivered double-quick, then all parties involved are under a great deal of pressure. the loading in the expected time frame, thanks to the great cooperation of all the SAL Heavy Lift’s team recently passed a test in Rotterdam with flying colours. parties involved. The Svenja thus set sail from Rotterdam bound for South Korea The German company SAL Heavy Lift, unit for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine right on time. which is headquartered in Hamburg and Engineering (DSME), based in Geoje The Svenja is a type 183 vessel. It is part of Japan’s K Line Group, recently (South Korea). The unit weighed 1,425t has two on-board cranes which can lift took a particularly interesting shipment and measured 42 m by 37 m, and was 36 m 1,000t each (combinable for up to 2,000t on board the Svenja in the port of Rotter- high – giving a massive 54,353 cbm. The lifts). The heavylift freighter’s deadweight dam (Netherlands). The extremely heavy Svenja thus had to sail across the oceans tonnage amounts to 12,500t and it can and oversized cargo concerned was the with an open hatch and with an overhang sail at speeds of up to 20 knots. av living quarters for an offshore housing of 20m. www.sal-heavylift.com

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The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are not exactly upon us yet, pe Ko of but preparations for the event are naturally proceeding apace. The rt po , port of Koper was recently involved in the shipping of mobile ko min homes to the Russian city. Do a Matej

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Further development of the Tractomas A Burgundian heavyweight

Truck tractors are designed for heavy loads. The Tractomas, whose predecessor from 2005 featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, is definitely in a class of its own. Nicolas Industries, a subsidiary of the TII group, recently gave journalists a chance to look at the latest generation of this vehicle – and even drive it on the plant’s grounds in France.

Tractors are steadily growing, in line with triggered the birth of the Tractomas and sector. Such a strong truck tractor replac- their international tasks in the heavylift the PH 640 OM 6x4 model was created. es many single vehicles. The LCR group sector. Despite a slight decline in com- At the same time an 8x8 version, known really beats the advertising drum with modity markets and decreasing growth as the PH 5030 GM, was built for a cus- what has been named the superhauler in emerging nations, demand for massive tomer in Tunisia. down under. truck tractors in the oil and gas exploi- The current Tractomas model from tation sector, as well as in the mining, 2012 still has the same Renault driver’s A date in Champs-sur-Yonne ship building, wind power and offshore cab as the prototype had 32 years ago. The vehicle was built on French soil, as industries, for example, remains strong. The latest version, whose launch unit has the Nicolas Industries plant is located been deployed by the company LCR in in Champs-sur-Yonne, near the city of Up to 1,000t tractive force Australia since June last year, has a trac- Auxerre in Burgundy. The factory is on a In the case of the Tractomas, whose first tive force of up to 1,000t. This enables 90,000 sqm tract of land that is home to model was developed in 1979, demand the special vehicle to pull whole convoys workshops and warehouses, where nearly initially came from overseas.A truck trac- made up of tipper trailers – themselves 190 employees work to develop and build tor for hauling heavy loads with special special vehicles from New Zealand – car- heavylift tractors and trailers for use on dimensions was required in China. This rying bulk commodities for the mining the road. The company delivers around

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The conglomerate Nicolas Industries has been part of the Transporter Industrie International Group (TII) for nearly 20 years. Scheu- erle and Kamag – two more well-known brands in the heavylift and special consignments market are also part of the same group. Nicolas was taken over in 1994, and after the fears that arose from n

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Pho tially benefitted many a project in the Project engineer Sébastien François presents the latest version of the Tractomas on the premises of meantime. Nicolas Industries in Champs-sur-Yonne. Outlook 170 different types of vehicle per year. so far. The plant has the capacity to pro- Where will the next units of the new Trac- Project engineer Sébastien François, one duce up to 20 of these vehicles per year, tomas go? The sales representatives on of the developers of Tractomas, welcomed depending on the model. Production the spot in Champs-sur-Yonne remained visiting journalists to the plant. frequency cannot be arbitrarily changed, tight-lipped about the destinations. How- The current TR D75 model is his baby. but it can be raised. ever, from what was said one could gather It is being built in 6x6, 8x8 and 10 x10 that talks are to be held with internation- versions. At 10.87m long, 3.48m wide Taking a test drive in person al purchasers in Asia, Africa and South and 4.52 m high, the vehicle’s dimen- Even novice Tractomas drivers find it America. One thing is certain: Tractomas sions are very respectable. The Tractomas easy to use the vehicle – as a driving trip units will be hauled to their destinations weighs 36 t. around the grounds of the plant, accom- by road on BMW loading platforms and The version that was presented to jour- panied by an instructor on the passenger then by ship. nalists was an 8x8 with a tractive force seat, soon proved. Christian Doepgen of around 535t. This goliath among spe- The six-gear Allison automatic trans- www.nicolas.fr cial vehicles obtains power from its C27 mission is smooth, the ZF 2-speed trans- www.tii-group.com Caterpillar engine that has a 27 l cylinder fer box delivers two transmission ratios www.lcrgroup.com.au capacity and 653kW, corresponding to (1 :0.91 and 1:1.407). The exactly 888 horse power. The vehicle is maximum road speed is equipped with a diesel fuel tank that can 65 km/h. Normally, the hold no less than 1,000l. truck tractor is designed to run at 40km/h on flat Individual characteristics terrain. A special vehicle of this type will only be constructed under very specific con- Demanding project ditions for precisely defined purposes. One must not underes- Even the first-ever Tractomas has its own timate the demands that story. According to section MDG 25 in are placed on a project the Australian road traffic law, truck trac- team to fulfil the techni- tors have to be equipped with roll-over cal requirements of special protection capabilities. Nicolas was able vehicles. François said that n to implement this in collaboration with the current model was ge ep an Italian company. Over and above this, the second version which Do n ia

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Volga-Dnepr flies a compressor to Krasnoyarsk and a helicopter to Alabama To the Deep South and the frozen east

The Russian airfreight carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines carried out two remarkable heavylift transport services in August. The company airlifted a compressor weighing almost 100t to an oil refinery in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia). On top of that, a helicopter was conveyed to Huntsville in the US state of Alabama, just in time for the opening of a hangar facility for an American security company.

Volga-Dnepr recently flew a Bell UH-1 part of the US army’s Redstone Arsenal tasks are finished the freshly-refurbished helicopter to Huntsville international standard and non-standard rotary-wing helicopters, which Dyn Corp regards as airport in the US state of Alabama, just programmes. «particularly safe air transport vehicles in time for the opening of a hangar op- for both freight and personnel», will be erated by the US company Dyn Corp Antonov on the move used to support the company’s growing International. The company supports the Dyn Aviation, the Dyn Corp division turnover in the business and government US government’s logistics projects, and that is responsible for airside services, is transport sector. relies on Volga-Dnepr for airfreight and currently overhauling eight of its helicop- Volga-Dnepr deployed an Antonov logistics solutions. ters, as well as five more UH-1s and two AN-124 freighter to convey the large load. At the new hangar at Huntsville air- Mil MI-17s that were recently deployed This aircraft was available for inspection port Dyn Corp, which has more than in various troubled areas and zones of by numerous guests that attended the 60 years of experience in the field, pro- conflict around the world. The mainte- opening ceremony for the hangar. vides aviation support, maintenance and nance work is being carried out in Hunts- The Russian airline deployed the same overhaul services for helicopters that are ville and Pensacola FL (USA). When the type of aircraft (also known as a Ruslan) to fulfil another major contract in sparse- ly populated Siberia this summer. This particular task involved the carriage of a 95 t compressor from the port city of Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast to Krasnoyarsk, approximately 3,000 km to the west.

Experienced partners Volga-Dnepr’s experienced engineers made use of special loading equipment weighing 16 t to ensure that the freight was evenly stowed in the aircraft’s belly. The shipment was unloaded in Krasno- yarsk by three mobile hydraulic cranes. The large compressor, which was destined for the Achinsky oil refinery, was airlifted on behalf of Transafe Logistics. The largest refinery in the Krasnoyarsk krai is in Achinsk, located on the right bank of the Chulym river. Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Transafe Logistics have been collaborating to fulfil such complex logistics projects for several years. The two companies have worked in tandem to organise deliveries such as the transportation from Moscow to Sur- gut (Russia) of 60t General Electric rotor turbines for the Surgut 2 power station, epr and the carriage from Narita (Japan) to a-Dn

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Feldmann and Goldhofer master a heavylift transport task through the Jura 260t on the road in Switzerland

The Swiss company Feldmann Pneukran und Transporte deployed a Goldhofer THP/ET heavy-duty modular system with 20 axle lines to transport an extraordinarily heavy hydraulic gearbox for a tunnel boring machine through Switzerland’s Jura mountains. The equipment was needed to proceed with work on Switzerland’s A16 transjurane motorway.

High-tech made in Germany – Goldhofer axle lines – and Swiss precision – Feld- mann heavylift transport skills – were at the heart of a rather delicate task recently. The transport route for a 160 t gearbox that had to be hauled the full breadth of the Swiss canton of Jura was nothing for the faint-hearted. Twenty Goldhofer axle lines had to manoeuvre a 4.3m high colossus, with a diameter of 6.3m, with pinpoint precision along narrow roads and across several motorway bridges. Goldhofer’s experience and engineering meant that the r fe logistics feat was accomplished without a Goldho hitch and with no damage. : to

The route from Courtedoux in the Pho Swiss canton of Jura to Balsthal in the Absolutely precise work was required when Feldmann and Goldhofer’s project managers transported canton of Solothurn is only 68 km long a heavy hydraulic gearbox for a tunnel boring machine through a narrow underpass. – albeit through breathtaking mountain scenery. By car, it is about an hour’s re- was provided largely by Goldhofer’s own added to his elaborations. The Feldmann laxed and enjoyable driving. Easy Load software system, as well as team’s painstaking preparations also paid If you have to cover the distance the heavy-duty axles on the Goldhofer off. The company’s highway crew had with 20 axles, an overall convoy length THP/ET modules. The company said spent weeks getting ready for the big day, of 45.5m and a load that weighs about that it was this software that made it removing – or getting ready to remove – 260t, however, then you will not spend possible to distribute the load with such every potential obstacle, such as highway much time admiring the beauty of the precision that the 160t could be safely bollards or posts, road signs and traffic Jura mountains. It takes 100% concentra- transported by road, in compliance with lights, so that the stage was set for a trou- tion to handle such an operation without the legal requirements. ble-free operation. any delays, injuries or impact on the en- «We were able to use the same steering vironment. planwiththe additionalaxles, so there was Negotiating tight radii no need to lift the load for the motorway The transporter negotiated narrow roads Crossing narrow mountain passes sections,» as Marcel Guilbert explained, through the towns of Muttenz, Pratteln The task met a challenge right at the be- the head of transport operations and the and Hauenstein in the greater Basel re- ginning, just a few kilometres after leav- project manager for the company Feld- gion and through the Laufental valley to ing the village of Bure. Two motorway mann Pneukran und Transporte, which its destination in Balsthal. For a number bridges had to be crossed on the A16 link- is headquartered in the Swiss village of of particularly narrow passages, a radio- ing Porrentruy and Delémont. Because of Bilten, located in the canton of Glarus. control unit had to be used to employ the weight of the load the Swiss authori- Where necessary, the load was raised by the auxiliary axle steering on the modules ties stipulated 20 axles for this section of up to 300 member, using the hydraulic needed to negotiate the tight radii with- the journey, and four axles were accord- swing-axle suspension. out any problems. ingly added to the 16-axle transporter so Thanks to the flexibility of Gold- For Feldmann the operation was a as to reduce the axle loads. hofer’s heavy-haulage system the permit special kind of premiere, as it had never The 260t steel giant then rolled – me- that the authorities had to issue for the handled a 160t payload before. For Gold- tre by metre – towards its destination, journey through the Jura was not limited hofer, a leader in the transport equipment over narrow mountain passes and along to night hours, as is usually the case. It industry, it was another challenge success- one particular section of the new mo- additionally allowed travel during the fully mastered. torway that it was set to work on itself day. «That considerably reduced the total edited by ra that was not yet open to public traffic. project time required – and hence also www.goldhofer.com The key to the success of the operation the costs,» the pleased project manager www.feldmann-kran.ch OPEN HATCH TRANSPORT, OVERHANG OF 20 METRES: LIVING QUARTER, 1,425 MTONS, 42 ×37×36M (NETHERLANDS –KOREA)

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are needed in a specific project. On this occasion they were collected from storage in Singapore by the Fairlane as it was en route to China. After loading the cargo onto the vessel in the People’s Republic of China the o ship set sail for Venezuela. The most di-

Jumb rect route would have been through the o: Panama Canal. This was not an option, Phot The shiploader was heaved on board the «Fairlane» using Jumbo’s fork-lift method. however, as the cargo protruded on either side of the vessel. This necessitated transporting the crane via the Cape of A crane for the port of Palua Good Hope instead. Scheduling played an important part in the planning of the operation, as delivery of the cargo was Delicate operational sensitivity only possible in Venezuela’s June to Sep- tember rainy season. The rainfall in this Every manoeuvre has to be executed exactly right in project cargo operations. Jumbo’s period raises the water level in the port’s recent transportation of a shiploader from China to Venezuela required very precise skills fairway, thus allowing access to the quay. from all of the parties involved. Planning+engineering skills=success Once the Fairlane had docked punctually A high degree of operational skills and challenges, one of them being a water in the Venezuelan port the next challenge finesse are called for when a project cargo depth at the port of loading of only 5.6m. arose. The cargo had to be discharged us- specialist is asked to transport a heavy This meant that a vessel with shallow- ing a conveyor belt structure. The Fair- and large consignment. This was once draught capabilities was required. This lane’s capacity to lift heavy loads at an again the case when the Dutch heavylift posed no problem, as Jumbo vessels have extensive outreach was crucial to the suc- specialist Jumbo recently transported a strong heavylift capabilities at shallow cess of this order. shiploader from Dalian (China) to the draughts. The Fairlane, a ship in Jumbo’s The shiploader is particularly impor- port of Palua (Venezuela). H800 class, with the capacity to carry tant for the port of Palua, which is why 7,051t, was selected for the task. It has Ricardo Menendez, Venezuela’s indus- Meagre water depth two on-board cranes which can lift 400t tries minister, was present for its unveil- The crane, which registered around 420t each, giving quite an impressive lift when ing, together with mining company rep- on the scales, measured 16.3m wide by they are deployed in tandem. resentatives. The new crane will have a 28m high and was 58 m long.A tripper In this case, however, the shiploader major impact on activity at the port, the car weighing approximately 35 t was also was lifted on board the Fairlane using minister said, improving performance on board, as was a telescopic chute and Jumbo’s fork-lift method, which deploys considerably and enabling the hub to supporting structure, which came to an- two 24m beams and thus brings the handle 7.5 million t of minerals a year, other 10 t. combined lifting capacity to 1,600t. The a 60% improvement on previous levels. The successful completion of the op- beams are not stored on board a vessel but Antje Veregge eration required the navigation of unique are brought into action as and when they www.jumbomaritime.nl

Green logistics for an oil and gas industry supplier

Four large pieces of articulated equip- Normandie region of France. For the past ment used in the transhipment of lique- 30 years such parts were always shipped fied natural gas (LNG) left the French to North European ports by road. Now inland port of Gron by barge early in Haropa, an alliance between the ports of August, headed for Le Havre. There Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, and the Bur- they were loaded onto the deepsea ves- gundian inland port of Gron, have joined pa Haro sel Hanxin for the maritime leg of their forces to provide greener and faster links : to

journey to Mumbai (India). The units between Burgundy and Normandy. Pho measured 19.21 by 4.7m, and each one This consignment was only in transit This was the first time that FMC transported weighed in at around 32 t. for five days, which is half as long when LNG equipment by barge from Gron to Le Havre. The shipper was FMC Technologies, compared to haulage by road. On top of which manufactures parts for the oil and this, the high volume of traffic on the making use of Haropa’s barge services, gas industry. It had never before trans- highways in the summer months would which fit in very well with its new greener ported a consignment by barge from Gron have caused many a bottleneck. FMC business model. av to the port of Le Havre, in the Haute- Technologies is happy to have started www.haropaports.com 46 Heavylift / Breakbulk Special International Transport Journal 37-38 2013

the tying of new knots in their networks, and last but not least, entrants support a deserving organisation. This year it is the maritime scholarship fund of Texas A&M University at Galveston which will

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: welcome to jog around the 5 or 10 km to route,» Anders Flensborg emphasised. Pho Logistics will take centre stage in New Orleans at the end of September, when this year’s He is always happy to welcome new par- Breakbulk Americas trade fair takes place. ticipants to the event, which caters to all speeds and abilities. He and his wife 16th Business Run scheduled for 25 September Katrin Flensborg will take the opportunity to wind down a little, as they will have run in the legendary Jungfrau mountain New business in New Orleans marathon in Switzerland just ten days earlier. ah Flensborg & Associates, a German transport and logistics industry consultancy, is organising the next edition of its well-known business run, with the ITJ on board Information for participants

as one of the event’s official media partners. • Runners meet in front of exhibition halls G/H of the Ernest N. Morial convention The Breakbulk Americas trade fair is re- cas fair in the same city the sixth such centre on 25 September at 7.15 am. turning to New Orleans from 23 to 26 canter took place, and a year later in Hou- • The starting gun will be fired by Texas September this year. It will once again be ston the tenth one. Now the organisers Terminals’ Buddy Schurig at 7.30 am. accompanied by the well-known business have arrived at the 16th edition – but the • Refreshments and a list of participants will run, as has been the case at most of the triple bonus remains the same. be handed out at the end. heavyweight logistics events of the past First of all, runners do themselves www.flensborg-associates.com/ few years. At the 2011 Breakbulk Ameri- good, then their companies benefit from businessrun; www.tamug.edu

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