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Multimodal multinational Strasbourg to Greenville for General Electric 9

Ranking shipping lines Class worth more than mass – Drewry 46

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| 9 May 2014 19 · 20 www.transportjournal.com 7 Editorial International ENGLISH EDITION This Special is a part of Transport (also available in an identical Andreas Haug on the Antwerp trade fair Journal German and French version) ITJ ITJ 19-20/2014 9 Port Autonome de Strasbourg A monster for General Electric

15 Polytra Specials Breakbulk / Heavylift Supplement 25 From Constantza to Casablanca Italy

Two to become three? Hapag-Lloyd looking 14 east after CSAV deal

Turkey shows the way Rail expansion in 21 17 Drewry’s analysis Southeastern Europe Controversy over figures Study versus study on 25 Good prospects for heavylift shipping Italian port throughput

19 SAL Heavy Lift To and from the land down under

21 UAL Strong fleet expansion

23 GTE An innovative new type 13 Cranes to Lake Baikal Everything is bigger in the USA– and often also 26 Faymonville more complicated. Scheuerle has developed a new Multifaceted thanks to Combimax prototype for the market, its highway giant dual- lane trailer, which can handle heavy jobs that 27 Steder Group comply with the laws in every state of the union. Locomotives to Ethiopia

28 Kübler Took a ship to water and made it swim

29 Delta Maritime Special transport to Greece Cautiously optimistic 17

31 Gustav Seeland/Big Move Analysts have predicted an upswing for the Hamburg by night heavylift sector several times in the last few years. Now Drewry has stated that it believes a 37 Felbermayr subdued 2014 will be followed by two years of As if made for the inland waterways rising volumes.

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42 Schleif Transport GmbH (STG) Oil and gas module to the Emirates Flying aid to remote corners 33

43 Port of Antwerp Russi Batliwala, the CEO of Chapman Freeborn, Handling a huge container crane spoke to the ITJ’s Andreas Haug about the last 27 years of the air charter company, the changing 45 Global Boat Shipping (GBS) face of the business and the satisfactory returns Four superyachts from Dorset his firm hopes to achieve this year.

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50 Best Logistics Liquid gas tanks down the river Oder Projects in Tunisia 41

The oil and gas industry has developed substan- 54 Heavyload Freight Logistics (HLFS) Pipes to Colombia tially in North Africa, bringing the concomitant project cargo tasks with it. Tunisia’s STTAT Group 55 Ipsen Logistics has a specialist project cargo unit that can assist A shiploader for Norwegian fish the regions entire energy industry.

56 Universal Transport Transformers to Hammerfest

61 Salammbô Group Fleet parade 46 Project logistics for oil and gas businesses In its latest analysis the Dutch consultancy 63 Lattrans Dynamar has sketched a differentiated picture 10,000 km to Ulan Bator of the units and their equipment available from maritime heavylift providers. Dynamar also 65 Imperial Baris expects an upswing in the sector from 2015. A cog from Lithuania to Berlin

67 Seaway Heavy Lifting A 3,300 t transformer topside Steady in heaving and rolling 71 68 Venice Port Authority Linking up with Central Europe Heavylift transportation calls for the efficient and 69 Volga-Dnepr Airlines/Ruslan International reliable securing and lashing down of loads with Four helicopters and an Antonov the appropriate materials. New developments in the segment can lead to significant improvements 77 BNSF for customers in this field. Massive project logistics effort

78 Alexander Global Logistics Mining equipment to Mongolia Aware of its deficits 73

Containers have ruled the roost in the port of Interviews with... Hamburg recently, with dry bulk and the project and heavylift sector being a bit neglected. Public Russi Batliwala of Chapman Freeborn 33 and private measures and cooperation with part- Thomas Wirz and Frank Fehrenkötter of T-LINK 51 ners may now turn the trend around. Alexander Shelkov of Instar Logistics 59

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Dear readers, made by Drewry even sees transport volumes in the sector growing in the coming years (see page 17). There are similar In the run up to the Breakbulk China trade fair a few issues – and long-term, I hope – reports of growing volumes in the ago my colleague Antje Veregge mentioned that spring was airfreight industry, my field of specialisation here at the ITJ. in the air in the heavylift and project cargo market. And The ITJ’s editorial, sales and marketing team now? How has the sector developed since then? Well, we will be happy to discuss these and can’t exactly say that it’s high summer yet, but – despite a other interesting transport mar- few ups and downs – the climate seems to have stabilised ket developments with you at the somewhat in the meantime, as I was reminded recently at Breakbulk Europe 2014 trade the TransRussia trade event in Moscow. fair in Antwerp, where the ITJ Even just a cursory glance at this ITJ Breakbulk and has been present as a media Heavylift Special confirms the trend – with an impressive 80 partner for many years now. pages it once again does its name proud. And a subsequent Enjoy this ITJ heavylift more detailed reading of the supplement will confirm to the special on your way to the industry experts that there are quite a few extraordinary pro- key industry meeting! jects taking place these days. One of the world’s largest cor- porations, General Electric, sets the tone in the first article, which reports on it setting an in-house heavylift transport record in Belfort (France). The global heavylift fleet, in turn, is primed and ready for action in ever heavier projects, as a Andreas Haug Dynamar study has established (page 46–47). A projection Head of aviation

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A General Electric turbine took the multimodal route from Belfort to the USA A «Love Story» in Strasbourg

In March a convoy with highly unusual dimensions transported a large General Electric turbine with a capacity of 510 MW from GE’s Belfort works to the inland port of Strasbourg. GE stated that this heavy goods transport represented a record for its Belfort works. One leg of the turbine’s journey, whose final destination was the USA, saw the unit loaded onto the barge «Love Story» in Strasbourg.

General Electric (GE), a US firmcurrently involved in a bidding war for the French industrial group Alstom, has been operat­ ing from its Belfort branch, its European headquarters with its own production facilities, since 1999. The prototype of a new gas turbine began its transport to the USA several weeks ago. Its rated capacity is 510 MW, which is large enough to sup­

ply 600,000 households with electricity. rg This brand new type of gas turbine is to ou rasb be tested in the southern USA and pre­ St de pared there for production readiness. The e nom

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Bouchain, in the départment Nord. : to Pho A convoy weighing 800 t The longest and heaviest convoy ever put together for GE moved 800 t from Belfort to the USA. On 5 March General Electric’s hitherto longest and heaviest transport convoy had begun planning the route in Octo­ Numerous accompanying measures were ever to hit the roads in France began its ber 2010. The journey of approximately required en route, in order to smoothen journey in Belfort. The group of vehicles 150 km in the densely­populated region the journey and make the transport pos­ measured a total of 109 m in length, with of the départments of Belfort, Haut­Rhin sible. Several intersections had to be an average width of 6.7 m and a height of and Bas­Rhin was divided into five jour­ blocked and the traffic redirected. Cer­ 5.7 m. The overall weight of all the mo­ neys of one day each. tain sections of road and some round­ dules and parts combined came to 800 t, From Belfort the convoy first crossed abouts had to be widened as well as other with the gas turbine itself accounting for over a bridge at Aspach, thence to Colmar, modifications carried out. On­coming 390 t. Two trailers and two pulling and a night leg on the road from Eguisheim traffic lanes had to be blocked and their two pushing tractors were used for this to Ebersheim, and then to Strasbourg via use closed in some places, including a unique heavy transport. Illkirch­Graffenstaden.Theroutewassele­ road through Benfeld. Because condi­ Rhenus Logistics was given operatio­ cted on the basis of previous experience nal responsibility for the transport. It with heavy load transports. continued on page 11

International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 11 rg ou rasb St de e nom to Au rt Po : to Pho The turbine being loaded on to the «Love Story» in Strasbourg. continued from page 9 tions there were so windy the transport experts had to create a new exit on RD 829. On top of these kinds of road blocks and the suspension of road traffic in many places the transporters were also forced to partially sus­ pend some bus services.

Belfort local government and GE collaboration The local governments participated financially as well as practically in the operational aspects of the transport. Employees of the local Unité Technique d’Aménagement du Territoire (UTAT) were on hand to support the oper­ ation, including cutting branches off trees, removing and installing hoardings and sign boards, and switching off traffic lights and power supplies. The costs of these accompanying measures was estimated at approximately EUR 700,000, divided equally between General Electric and the Belfort district government. The road transport took two days longer thanplanned. On 13 March the enormous plant and equipment was loaded on to the barge Love Story at the Port Autonome de Strasbourg, and the next stage of the journey pro­ ceeded without further loss of time. The trip on the river Rhine to Antwerp took three days. The next stage of the transport of the turbine and the rest of the mod­ ules was the maritime leg to the USA. On the other side of the Atlantic the port of Savannah GA received the consignments. From there the turbine was taken to its destination in Greenville SC by rail. The whole journey took a total of one and a half months.

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Meeting varying legal requirements with one vehicle type Flexibility a standard specification

The range of heavylift vehicle types that hits the roads every year is as broad as the number of different legal stipulations that apply to their operation in different countries. Now Scheuerle has introduced a new vehicle concept for a US client.

The speed lim- its that apply in most countries make sure that journeys do not The highway giant dual-lane take place on the prover- trailer was presented to the public bial highway to hell. The in Las Vegas recently. Photo: TII statutory requirements for ve- hicles using the roads vary from country to country, The vehicle’s hydraulic cylinders in the pendulum axles have a large of course, but in the USA specific legislation concern- displacement volume, in order to be able to drive under and pick up ing load distribution on roads and bridges can even loads. On request the highway giant can be equipped with a power vary from state to state. The regulations become even booster, an additional power source that provides extra thrust when more important when logistics operators are engaged in driving, and even allows the vehicle to be used as a self-propelled unit heavylift activities in the USA. The regulations concern- without a tractor. Thus a second tractor may not be required during the ing load distribution on roads and bridges vary from transport, under certain circumstances, and if there is only very little state to state. Each federal entity prescribes specific load space available at the final destination the cargo can nevertheless be support measures and regulates wheelbases and the dis- shunted into position easily. Christian Doepgen tribution of the load.

New highway giant with a low tare weight The qualities of variable vehicle concepts thus come into their own in such circumstances. Such a concept allows a vehicle to be adapted exactly to suit the cargo being transported, and simultaneously to fulfil the statutory framework conditions at the place of operation. Scheuerle has now developed a new vehicle for an important US customer, namely Sterett Crane&Rig- ging, which is headquartered in Owensboro KY. The new Scheuerle unit is called the highway giant dual-lane trailer and has an extremely low tare weight. It is now ready to be approved for use in most US states. Its most important advantage is its high degree of flexibility.

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A specialist for project cargo in Africa Wagons across the waters

Heavylift transportation in Africa goes beyond the standard energy and mining project undertakings these days. Polytra, the WWPC member for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for Zambia, recently hauled some railway wagons to Morocco.

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Drewry: Room for optimism for heavy carriers «An alternative with added value»

Initially it seemed as if 2013 would bring a minor improvement to shipping lines in the heavylift and project cargo segment. In the meantime, however, it has emerged that such optimism was a little premature. Things may get better towards the end of the year, however, as Drewry’s latest analysis of the industry indicates.

Just as we did last year, we are bold enough to once again gaze deep into the crystal ball (see ITJ 19-20/2013, page 17) and analyse how the market for heavylift vessels is set to develop in the short-term future. (See also pages 46–47 for an as- sessment of the current global fleet.) There was precious little gloss on the crystal ball last year. The market condi- tions were poor to unbearable for ship- ping lines in this segment. They had to compete with declining demand and growing competition from providers inie from other sectors of the industry, such -L rs as container shipping. me ck Ri

Initially, there was hope that 2014 : to

would be ringing in some improve- Pho ments in the overall situation. As Susan It is important for heavylift lines to communicate the added value they offer their customers. Oatway, an associate with the English analyst Drewry, admits: «This optimism the last year. «The outlook is now more multipurpose fleet is aged towards the was misplaced – or at least premature.» positive, however,» according to Oatway, older end of the maritime spectrum, and The reasons behind this development, «as global steel production, to cite just the orderbook at the beginning of 2014, she believes, are the facts that demand one example, is expected to rise at an ave- comprising a relatively unimpressive 128 growth has slackened and market share rage annual rate of 5% over the next two vessels totalling 2.1 million dwt, repre- dwindled, in the face of very determined years.» But there is no place for euphoria sented just 7% of the existing fleet. competition. in the market at the moment, for «the out- But as long as newbuildings offer a But has the trough been passed in look for the specific project cargo market unique quality – it is not so important the meantime? Drewry’s «Multipurpose is more mixed», the expert believes. what that is; it could be any thing like Shipping Market Review and Forecaster», eco-friendly engines or extraordinary lift the company’s latest annual report for Light at the end of the tunnel capacities, according to Drewry – there the multipurpose and heavylift sector, Thus general expectations for the project will still be space to accommodate them believes there is some cause for cautious cargo and heavylift industry remain sub- in the market. «What this means is that optimism. dued, at least for 2014, in Drewry’s as- Drewry’s forecast provides some room for sessment. There are signs that the sector optimism for owners. Demand is expect- Declining market share could begin to pick up further volumes ed to continue to grow and it has the po- Even though cargo demand has risen towards the end of the year, however, and tential to deliver significantly increased steadily since the crash of 2009, the share grow in 2015 and 2016. Drewry forecasts volumes.» of the multipurpose sector, a category in that demand for multipurpose units will which Drewry also includes heavylift grow at an average annual rate of 5% over It’s five to twelve units, was not able to benefit from this the coming years, underpinning a gradual Drewry believes that such a develop- positive development. Its volumes, rather, recovery. «I believe that we will only see ment is urgently called for, as capital have been eroded. The analyst goes as far modest growth in 2014,» Oatway says, costs, which are a significant part of as to reckon that 2013 was, in fact, a worse adding that «any delay in the recovery of most shipowners’ bottom lines, can only year for heavylift and multipurpose ship- the container liner sector will also delay be borne for so long. Oatway closed her owners than that recession-blighted year the recovery for project carriers.» argument with one uncontested fact. «It of 2009. Their market share dropped to The effective multipurpose vessel fleet is our strongly-held view that those own- just 8% of the dry cargo segment, even grew by just 1.7% over 2013, with new- ers who are able to promote their vessels though tonnage was actually higher. building deliveries continuing to swell as an added-value alternative to contain- Drewry estimates that project cargo the fleet, in spite of continued strength ers will be the ones to see positive results volumes have fallen by almost 15% over in demolition volumes. In general, the sooner rather than later.» Antje Veregge YOUR GOODS ARE UNIQUE, OUR KNOW-HOHOWWT TOO.OO. Natural gateway to Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille Fos offers you the ideal conditions for the transport of your cargo :multimodality,optimized process, modern and competitive facilities. International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 19

Shipping a shiploader All’s well that ends well

The project cargo specialist SAL Heavy Lift recently transport a coal shiploader from Australia to South Korea, and then returned it to the antipodes for installation. A big height difference between the jetty on

which the shiploader was located and the ship’s deck made the lifting ft Li y of the equipment a delicate operation. av He L SA : aspects we had to assess to SAL Heavy Lift, a German firm that Pho specialises in the sea transportation of and take into account in SAL Heavy Lift transported a shiploader to and from South Korea, heavylift and project cargo, recently com- the long planning stage of and installed it after its refurbishment. pleted the transportation and installation the project.» of a coal shiploader at Abbot Point, in the SAL Heavy Lift owns and operates 16 also offers dynamic positioning installa- Australian state of Queensland, bringing purpose-built heavylift vessels. The firm’s tion solutions to clients in the oil and gas a rather complex one-year project to a suc- wholly-owned subsidiary SAL Offshore and renewables sectors. av cessful conclusion. The project started early in 2013, when the shiploader was taken on board the Lone, one of SAL Heavy Lift’s ships, at Abbot Point, and thence transported to the New Port shipyard in Mokpo (South Korea) for refurbishment and upgrading. The Svenja, also owned by SAL, returned the equipment to Australia in April. Both units are part of SAL’s 183 type heavylift vessel fleet. They feature cranes with a total lifting capacity of 2,000 t and have service speeds of up to 20 knots.

Unit came back heavier Before the recent upgrading measures the shiploader, which is owned and operated by the Adani Mining Company, had been in service for 20 years. Before it was refur- bished the shiploader weighed 1,050 t, but on its return it came in at 1,250 t, as steel and other materials had been added in the process. These improvements made it capable of loading coal onto bulk carriers at 7,000 t per hour, an augmentation of 2,000 t per hour. «Loading the equipment from a jetty in open water at Abbot Point and return- ing it to the same position was one parti- cularly tricky part of the operation,» says Justin Archard, managing director of SAL Heavy Lift in Singapore and Australia.

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UAL supports cultural exchange Beyond the boundaries of business

The merchant shipping industry is a world unto itself. Roger Jungblut, the chief executive officer of the Dutch shipping company United Africa Lines (UAL), has moved beyond the traditional confines of the sector, however, with his so-called Youngblood Africa initiative, based in Cape Town. The recent naming of the latest addition to UAL’s fleet underlines the close ties between Africa and Europe.

Even if the market situation in the ship- ping industry in general, and in the heavylift and project cargo segment in particular, is currently rather unfavour- able, one thing remains clear to Roger Jungblut. The chief executive officer of the shipping line Universal Africa Lines Alliance (UAL) is convinced: «It requires reinvestment to maintain and develop a functioning society.» UAL has been active in Africa for more than 40 years, particularly in the energy sector. It was thus a natural progression for the firm, headquartered in Capelle

aan den IJssel (Netherlands), to give the L UA youth of the continent some support. : to

The line has already created training Pho programmes and many a shipping indus- The multipurpose vessel «UAL Cologne» was launched in the Netherlands in February. try job in Africa, but Jungblut is extend- ing UAL’s involvement beyond the ship- nition. «Cape Town is a key African gate- The 8,600 dwt UAL Cologne made its ping industry by supporting youngsters way,» Jungblut underlines. The next step maiden trip from Aberdeen (Scotland) and their artistic and cultural activities. to speeding up a more effective cultural to Antwerp (Belgium) and thence to «Without art and culture we would not exchange saw the opening of Youngblood various destinations in West Africa, in- know anything about the history of Europe in Cologne. cluding calls at Takoradi (Ghana), Ma- nations. The field is the only one that labo/K5 (Equatorial Guinea) as well as remains visible over the centuries and Symbolic name Pointe Noire (Republic of the Congo) a leaves an indelible mark on society,» he To make this decision amply clear UAL little further south. Antje Veregge is certain. has named the latest addition to its fleet UAL Cologne. «The name of this multi- About UAL Support from the UAL network purpose vessel symbolises the link be- Jungblut believes that learning the ba- tween nations as well as between Cape Universal Africa Lines has connected West sics of entrepreneurship is a particularly Town and Cologne,» Jungblut elaborates. Africa’s oil and gas industry with the USA important aspect of life for artists world- The CEO has every UAL ship named and Europe for more than 40 years. The wide, and that they should be able to earn after a place with a special significance company has also extended its activities to their livelihood and live independently. from his personal or business life. The East Africa recently. «But capital to start up their activities, as UAL Cologne was built in the Royal The new trade offers connections to well as connections to local and global Bodewes shipyard in Hoogezand (Neth- services to and from the United States of networks, are equally important elements erlands) and was named by Angela Roters, America, West Africa and South Africa. The to help artists become established. This is the wife of the lord mayor of Cologne. shipping line also specialises in transport- ing equipment and tools to the western and where UAL and its international business eastern coasts of Africa, particularly for the connections enter the picture,» Jungblut Environment-friendly design oil and gas industry. explains. To make his vision a reality The UAL Cologne was built with the pat- The company’s extensive fleet of multi- Jungblut founded the Youngblood Africa ented Groot cross-bow. This innovative purpose vessels with tween decks, heavylift Arts and Culture Development founda- bow shape, with wave-piercing abilities, cranes and other special equipment are well tion for talented individuals in South means the vessel has less slamming and suited to handling a broad range of projects. Africa’s burgeoning artist ranks. allows it to maintain its speed more easily UAL’s fleet encompasses a total of 15 In Africa, Cape Town is the initiative’s in comparison with more conventional modern freighters, two feeder ships as well focal point, because as the continent’s bow shapes with bow flares. This saves as smaller units for coastal shipping activities prime arts and cultural centre it also en- energy and fuel, which results in a reduc- in Africa. joys a great degree of international recog- tion of the CO2 output. Membership Available in SelectiveMarkets! Pr Application: [email protected] oud GPLN www.gpln.net

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Transporting a crane across Russia in rather special circumstances GTE clears a path to Lake Baikal

Transporting a crane that weighs just under 100 t through Russia’s winter landscape s ic st is already quite demanding in and of itself, but if the route includes wooden bridges, gi Lo E the project represents a particularly difficult challenge – which GTE mastered. GT : to Pho The Russian company GTE Logistics re- overcoming the incline. The crane also Transporting a crane through the Russian winter cently completed the task of transport- had to cope with the wintery roads where was a particularly challenging task. ing a crane from the Moscow region to it was to move under its own steam. GTE Severobaykalsk, at the northern end of made sure that it had enough winter fuel, The unit is needed to build a second rail- Lake Baikal, an undertaking that called which would not freeze in the cold, on way track on the Baikal–Amur main line. for the special dedication of everyone in- board. Near Ust-Kut, nearly 1,000 km The link, which connects to Siberia and volved. It all began rather harmlessly. The north of Irkutsk, the road was impassable far eastern Russia, was built at the begin- 90 t consignment was hauled on a truck, for the truck, so the crane had to cover ning of the 20th century. It runs almost a seven-axle vehicle, whilst other mate- the last 300 km to Severobaykalsk under parallel to the famous trans-Siberian rail- rial, such as the unit’s counterweight, fol- its own steam. way. Antje Veregge lowed on six separate lorries.

50-year-old roads But quite a few rather unique challenges had to be overcome during the transpor- tation task, for the conditions the convoy encountered could not in any way be de- scribed as easy. Temperatures fell as low as –50°C. Even in summer the surfaces of the region’s roads would not have been able to create a much more relaxed atmos- phere for the drivers involved, however, as they had not been renewed for at least 50 years. This fact, combined with steep ascents in the mountainous area, meant that de- tailed planning was of the essence for the task at hand. One of the most important elements that the planners had to bear in mind was that many bridges that had to be crossed were made of wood, thus casting doubt on their ability to manage the 100 t load.

GTE presents authorities with solution This was one of the reasons why it turned YOUR DEDicaTED aGENT iN SWiTZERLaND out to be extremely difficult to get official authorisation to transport the consign- FOR FiRST cLaSS HEaVY LiFT caRRiERS ment on this route. GTE Logistics was able to establish a solution, however. The Russian authorities gave GTE permission to proceed because the firm agreed to unload the crane when it reached one of these bridges, and declared that the unit would cross wooden arches independent- O. Brunoni S.A. ly of its means of transport. Tel. +41 44 455 58 58 | Fax +41 44 455 58 55 As the weather was extreme, GTE had E-mail [email protected] | www.brunoni.ch to deploy road clearance vehicles and bulldozers on a daily basis to keep the route clear. The convoy could not afford QUALITY FLEXIBILITY COMPETITIVENESS to drop its speed below 5 km/h whilst www.ozean.ch International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 25

Cuxhaven positions itself as a hub for the offshore sector Tailwind in the far north

The trend in the heavylift industry is toward ever larger pieces of cargo. For the German port of Cuxhaven this development has opened up new fields of business. The German shipping line Bremer Reederei E&B, which is the port agent for the hub, places special emphasis on projects for offshore wind farms.

The transition to renewable energy is one of the most important issues in Germany. For the city and port of Cuxhaven this is a convenient development. Together with Eemshaven (Netherlands) and Esbjerg (Denmark), the northern German hub has developed into one of the most im- portant transhipment centres for cargo for the offshore sector. The port, which is currently serving as the base for two large-scale offshore pro- t jects, is well on its way to passing its trial or by fire. The German shipping line Bre- xp /Cu mer Reederei E&B, which has served as heer Sc the general agent for Eon’s Amrumbank : to

West offshore wind farm since December Pho 2013, is playing a key role in this develop- The monopiles and transition pieces for the Amrumbank West project are shipped through Cuxhaven. ment. The project is located in the North Sea, around 35 km west of Amrum and stallation involves fixing the 60 m long these days, or for the weight of shipments 38 km north of Helgoland. monopiles 30 m deep into the seabed in to exceed the maximum weight capac- A total of 80 wind turbines will be water up to 24 m deep, and finally install- ity permitted, for example of motorway installed for the project. The installation ing the transition pieces atop the piles. bridges and the like. This creates new ship MPI Discovery is being used to build business opportunities for seaports such the wind farm, as well as other offshore Stable jacked-up position as Cuxhaven, as they make assembly di- projects. «We first went through a typical Once in position, the ship lifts itself up rectly at the loading site more attractive demob/remob phase,» explained Cap- out of the sea on six hydraulic jack-up legs, for exporters. tain Arne Ehlers, the business partner ensuring a stable position from which to who runs the company. That means that carry out its crane and installation work. Building on offshore cargo experience the technical systems in place for the pre- The foundation structure, made up of the Cuxhaven is responding to this devel- vious project, the Humber Gateway off monopile and the transition piece to the opment and wants to establish itself as the northeastern coast of England, had wind turbine tower, weighs about 900 t. the first choice for the export-dependent to be deactivated first to prepare the ship The other project being carried heavylift industry, based on its experi- for the new project. out from Cuxhaven, in which Bremer ence in transhipping offshore cargo. Reederei E&B is the subagent, is the In pursuance of that goal, new logis- Cuxhaven as a hub installation of four Siemens transformer tics areas are being established, which will Transportation started last December and platforms. From Cuxhaven the jack-up be available with effect from mid-2014, is slated for completion by next autumn. vessel GMS Endeavour is supported by especially for offshore, heavylift as well Steel tubes, so-called monopiles, along the platform suppliers Blue Alpha and as other project cargo. A 5.4 ha area can with transition pieces, will be shipped to Blue Antaris, which supply the platforms be used for loads with weights of up to the wind farm via Cuxhaven. The pieces with food, technical equipment and ser- 20 t per sqm. Antje Veregge of cargo, which arrive from Belgium, vice technicians. are placed temporarily on a newly-built About Bremer Reederei E&B heavy-duty pier, using a mobile crane Bigger and heavier with a lifting capacity of 1,500 t, and are The direction of the trend in the heavylift The shipping line, which was founded in then sorted so that the MPI Discovery can industry is clear – dimensions are increas- 1951, is headquartered in Bremen and has a load them with its own crane. ing in size. Infrastructure in many places branch office in Cuxhaven. It offers services The jack-up barge is loaded in Cux- is running up against its limits, however in the areas of chartering, purchasing and haven and shuttles regularly back and (see also page 73). sales, brokerage, warehousing, stevedoring, forth between the wind farm and the port It is increasingly common for project crewing and insurance. Bremer Reederei to install the foundations at sea. The in- cargo to be too big to transport by barge E&B operates six ships. 26 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014

Faymonville presents a combinable road vehicle series Pre-announced in-house revolution

The Luxembourgian vehicle manufacturer Faymonville will use a modular construction system with a modular platform structure on its new vehicles, called Combimax, to bring the future into the market. The strategy used to develop the vehicle is based on the versatility brought by being able to combine standardised components. This principle has been interpreted for pure road vehicles.

lar system elements made from over-long edge pieces for automated welding. The decisive technical advantage for freight forwarders will lie in the flexible construction and options for the expan- sion of their fleets. «We give our custom- ers a tool with which they can design their own universal fleet,» Arnold Luxen said about the high value for customers produced by the new approach. Freight forwarders get more transport alternatives for their capital investment, e ll

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: vehicles, and can expect flexible and to timely adjustments, even in the heavylift Pho A new system interface enables vehicles of various heights and widths to be linked directly, whilst cargo business, to cope with the rapidly- simultaneously keeping the axle-load equally spread across the whole road train. changing nature of the orderbook.

Up until now, most vehicles produced max, Multimax, Gigamax, Variomax and A plus for the producer by Faymonville were «designed to or- Modulmax series. With a manageable number of compo- der», that is to say they were tailor-made Modularity is a principle which is al- nents, Faymonville can still produce solutions, exactly meeting a customer’s ready used in heavy-duty vehicles, but an almost infinite number of models. requirements. What this meant was that up until now has not been consistently The internal value of this project can the current range of products, with 14 implemented in pure road vehicles. Now be seen not least in the planned invest- basic models, has become increasingly modularity, and thereby flexibility, have ment amount. This is projected by the complex. There are now more than 3,000 been transferred to Faymonville’s core business’s management to amount to different vehicle frames of 8–60 m long product, that is to say to their trailers EUR 30 million by the end of next year. and weighing 6–44 t. and semi-trailers for medium to heavy Parts of this sum are also flowing «We’ve manufactured with the right payloads between 60 and 250 t. into the expansion of the corporation’s philosophy so far, as we’re able to pro- manufacturing locations. Thus the hall duce what the customer wants quickly Technology and the order book space for the steel construction, which and flexibly and deliver it in a timely An important reason for the development is located in Goleniov (Poland), will be manner,» COO Alain Faymonville said, of the Combimax is not least the EU-wide increased by about 6,300 sqm, and staff looking back at the situation. harmonisation of truck approval regula- numbers will also be boosted. tions, with a future maximum limit on In Lentzweiler (Luxembourg), a new Payloads of 60 to 250 t axle loads of 12–15 t. «The worldwide ten- assembly plant for the Combimax is cur- In the meantime, however, this complex- dency to limit axle loads inevitably forces rently being constructed. On an area ity is reaching its limits. The reason why us to come up with new ideas and devel- covering 7.5 ha Faymonville is building a Faymonville is not renouncing its cus- opments,» Arnold Luxen, Faymonville’s production hall with 10,000 sqm for as- tomer-specific solutions, but launching commercial director, said. sembly and surface coating. A later dou- a complementary vehicle concept, is be- To be able to realise the Combimax, bling of the capacity is also planned. cause «with this we’ll provide our custom- a special development team was se- The first phase of production in Lentz- ers with an economical option to individ- lected to design new components and weiler will start with an additional num- ually configure their own vehicles,» said processes. These included a lightweight ber of specialist staff. In addition to this, technical director Guy Fickers, describing design for the modular vehicle chassis, a new training and delivery centre will the new product concept. Looked at in decentralised add-on steering, universal be built in Luxembourg – not just for the this way, the new Combimax product is unit goosenecks, lighter swivel axles and new product, but rather for the complete simply an addition to Faymonville’s ex- independent wheel suspension systems, Faymonville range manufactured in the isting product groups, namely the Mega- symmetrical coupling heads and modu- Grand Duchy. Andreas Haug International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 27 er ed St : to Pho The heavily loaded multi-axle vehicles making their way across the East African state of Ethiopia.

Steder Group supporting rail projects in Ethiopia of heavylift and oversized freight to Ethi- opia as well as neighbouring countries, including South Sudan and Kenya. Locomotives via Djibouti The company has a modern fleet of vehicles that can handle special equip- The Djibouti-based enterprise Steder Group FZCO (free zone company) recently ment and can carry consignments mea- transported five heavy locomotives from their port of discharge in Djibouti to suring up to 50 m in length and weigh- ing as much as 300 t. The Steder Group their final destinations in Ethiopia. parent company is active as ship’s agent, charterer, freight forwarder as well as The firm Steder Group FZCO (free zone sites in Ethiopia, where new railway lines liner shipping agent. The proximity of company), which is based in Djibouti are under construction. They form a part its corporate headquarters to the port of in East Africa and is a subsidiary of the of a new pan-national railway network in Rotterdam enables the firm to offer easy Steder Group headquartered in Rhoon the country. access to many important global centres (Netherlands), recently took charge of of trade and industry. five locomotives weighing between 85 A specialist for East Africa Steder Group FZCO is the member and 135 t each in the port of Djibouti. Steder Group FZCO was founded in for Djibouti of the networks Worldwide They were loaded on to Steder Group 2011. Since then the enterprise has suc- Project Consortium (WWPC) and Cargo multi-axle trailers for transport by road to cessfully specialised in the transportation Equipment Experts (CEE). it 28 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014

Overland transport by Kübler A new ship on a new lake

Before a new and large ship could be launched on a newly-created lake in the Leipziger Neuseenland (new lakes country, Germany) in April it had to complete a long journey. The heavylift specialist Kübler from Michelfeld near Schwäbisch Hal was in charge of the task.

A ship weighing 165 t and with a total impossible on account of bridges with length of 42 m and a width of 8.6 m had lower load-bearing capacities. Having ar- er

to be transported recently by the forward- rived in Dresden the ship was loaded onto bl Kü er Kübler – not an easy undertaking. The a 21-axle trailer using two mobile cranes. : to

height of 4.5 m did not make the task Pho easier. From the ship’s manufacturer near Reassembled prior to its launch Atmospheric lighting for the loading of the ship Bonn in western Germany the vessel be- In several night shifts that required pre- – without its upper deck – in Dresden. gan its journey under its own steam on an cision on the scale of millimetres, the inland canal, reaching a heavylift termi- new ship, which is licensed to carry up to then place it hydraulically on a cross- nal in Duisburg. To save height, the upper to 400 people, was transported to Lake member. This required a further conver- deck was removed there and transported Markkleeberg. In the process, around 20 sion of the trailer. to Schönebeck on an inland barge. From traffic signs needed to be dismantled and With heavy ropes, the ship was then there, the upper deck was transported by refitted along the route. tied down, to prevent it from slipping truck to Markkleeberg. Two tractors towed the vessel to Lake away, out of control. The vessel then The vessel itself, now travelling with- Markkleeberg, where it was reassembled slowly slid down the slipway into its ele- out its upper deck, continued up the river in preparation for its launch. At the lake- ment.A week of work brought the vessel Elbe to Dresden. The river had to be used side the ship was initially manoeuvred to its new home, where it will enter regu- because transport from Schönebeck was backwards to a mobile slipway, in order lar service in May. ah .ch ct

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Road haulage transportation hampered by extreme cold Mastering a difficult task

Delta Maritime, a member of the WWPC network, was asked to manage 30 special road haulage transports last winter. The company had to contend with extremely adverse weather and road conditions.

Delta Maritime recently moved oversized nance work on existing roads. The com- The demanding task was made even more and heavy equipment for road construc- pany started off by transporting a variety difficult by the fact that the delivery of tion works from Poland to building sites of equipment, including caterpillar exca- the equipment was required to take place in Greece, namely in Platamonas, Koropi vators, crushers, Mercedes trucks, motor during a period of extraordinarily cold and Shimatari. Those places are currently graders, driers, asphalt tanks and filter weather. The roads were thus in a par- undergoing extensive construction work boxes. Individual pieces weighed up to ticularly difficult state of disrepair, thus for new motorways as well as mainte- 32 t each, some were as high as 3.45 m. presenting an additional challenge for the experienced logistics enterprise. Delta Maritime Limited was founded in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2004. The company was initially active in the port

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Inner-city heavy transport Enjoying Hamburg by night

When it comes to transporting, handling and assembling heavylift cargo consignments in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, then the Big Movers from the company Gustav Seeland GmbH are a reliable partner for urban special transport, according to the two brothers who run the firm, Frank and Olaf Beckedorf.A recent order which the enterprise carried out shows what really counts. ve Mo g Bi s: to Pho It was not the strongest equipment that was called on to transport a storage container through Hamburg recently. It was detailed planning, rather, that made the difference on the inner-city route.

With their own mobile cranes to lift and requirements of our customers.» These The inner-city route planning represented move loads of up to 300 t, as well as a requirements are becoming increasingly the main challenge of this latest transpor- diverse fleet of vehicles for heavylift work, complex, both inside and outside Ham- tation task of hauling a storage container the in-house hardware at the firm Gustav burg’s city limits, as he has experienced with a 6 m diameter across the Hanse- Seeland covers all necessities. However, with his brother since they took over the atic city. It was useful that the complete even the best hardware can only offer a firm completely from their father, Hel- measurements of all of Hamburg’s roads 100% performance when it can call on the mut, more than two decades ago. have already been registered in Seeland’s appropriate software, in this case a modern database. database-supported planning department. Checking every last detail These were needed from start to finish In recent years a complete power station for this project, along with its key trans- Human, mechanical and electronic team was dismantled in Hamburg, moved out, port mass data and other requirements «We rely equally on people, machines reconstructed and put back into operation The data was evaluated and special require- and IT,» said Olaf Beckedorf, describing in England. For this reason the company ments for things such as temporary con- the philosophy of the company which was portfolio also includes its own assembly struction and bottlenecks were checked, founded in 1932, «and only the very best department, as well as lifting scaffolds to submit the application for approval for of all of these will enable us to meet the with capacities to handle 360 t. this project to the authorities. ah

Heavy milestones from the company’s history

1 March 1932: The firm Gustav Seeland GmbH was founded. It carried out small shipments in Hamburg, mainly for one customer. 1950s: The transport department was built up, with one 3.2 t, one 1.75 t and one 1.25 t vehicle. 1960s: Helmut Beckedorf, the father of today’s two executives, took over the management of the business. 1970s: The transportation of heavylift cargo was added to the firm’s already extensive portfolio. 1991: The new generation took charge. 2004: A founding member of Big Move. 2013: Integration and development of a tablet application. 60 iPads are now Nothing moves in heavylift operations without the involvement of used to support the implementation, planning and organisational development key specialists – even if they themselves are not Superman. of all logistics and heavylift orders. WWW.ALTIUS.ES Yo modul rSp ur es ec ,c ia ra lis ne ts mo in He ve me av yt nt ra s, ns mining po E- Ph Bi BR E- Ph Ma MAI AL ARGE Ph C1 E- ma ma ma lbao 42 one one one TI AN drid rt NO 8D US il il il :j :e :j :+ :+ :+ ,p NTI CHES ·G VP tu ve ro ·P FFI ARGE 34 34 54 eq rner@ lasco NA drigu ra ro ·B ase 11 94 91 CE nv uipm ue 52 je 43 43 oC @a ia al ez NTI nos 365 23189·F ct ti 93669·F nº @a as us lt NA iu s( 53 te 62 Ai ar lt s. en iu ll .c re ,1ºI,4 es 5 an ·S s. oi om s·A es a, t, ucr l&g .a ax ax 8, rg wi r e2 80 :+ :+ 3º en 11 43 34 nd 34 ti D·2 as na 7, Bi 91 94 Pi lbao ,p 43 80 mi 44 so 1664 46 1767 ow 7( lls Ma A- et B- er 3 drid 9 C) c) pla . nt s, International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 33

In conversation with Russi Batliwala, CEO of Chapman Freeborn Helping hands high in the sky The aircraft charter company Chapman Freeborn’s has developed into a successful problem-solver for its clients since landing its first contract in 1973. In a recent discussion with ITJ editor Andreas Haug in Basel, CEO Russi Batliwala explained why aircraft – of any size and able to offer any performance – frequently remain the last solution for urgent or large and heavy consignments.

Mr Batliwala, please give us a brief de- During my initial years the business ran scription of your career. What was it according to a clear plan. Services were that led you into the aviation and air- purchased and sold, and there was a freight industry? margin. One knew the market and could I come from a family whose members easily tackle the next contract. This form have traditionally worked as pilots and of business is no longer possible today. flight attendants. My mother, a German Customers’ demands have become much citizen, was the first-ever foreign flight more sophisticated and their projects are attendant to be employed by Air India. much more comprehensive. Clients ap- She met her future husband, an Air ­India preciate it when their partner has all the pilot, on her first training flight from know-how at his fingertips. Düssel­dorf. My father later flew in the charter sector, including services to and «The time when business from Africa, where I subsequently made my first contacts. was ‹normal› is long gone.» My first steps up the career ladder al- ready took me to the airlines. My first In the meantime we have our own lawyer

employer merged with another airline, Freeborn Chapman Photo: and an in-company compliance depart- two others went bankrupt, and in 1987, Russi Batliwala, CEO of Chapman Freeborn. ment. The latter checks all the data that is shortly before I wanted to try and seek my captured online in our systems. Business fortune in England, I answered a small You’ve been with Chapman Freeborn obligations also play a major role. For job advert that read «aviation company for 27 years now. How has business example, every year we pay a six-figure needs a pair of hands to help». I phoned changed during that time? sum for our non-owned aircraft insur- them and got the job. I worked in a team ance. Naturally we’ve never had to make of eight people at the time; today we are Well I would have reams to report! And a claim, but you would not believe how a very large company with 450 employees one needs to consider the fact that air working in more than 30 countries. chartering is a highly specialised field. continued on page 34 34 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 continued from page 33 same breath – contracts for armed forces arises. The spotlight is now on the Cen- made up the greater part of our volumes tral African Republic, The UN manages many forwarders simply want to have the in the last few years. But we don’t trans- matters well by shipping freight to Douala security this coverage offers! port weapons or ammunition, as a mat- (Cameroon). We then fly the shipments Such protection can also be taken as ter of principle. We’re just a part of the from there to Bangui (CAR). That is just a sign of how seriously we conduct our logistics supply chain. 1,000 km – but still quite special… business – for there are some black sheep Let me give you an example. We fly in the charter business. Take, for instance, canned beer and trucks to Afghanistan ... the last mile so to say ... a firm that calls itself 1 Air Charter. An on behalf of various armies. That country Yes, but this combination of air and sea- incident occurs, the firm has to close, but was key for us and will remain so this freight is a good method for reaching the it opens again the very next day – un- year. In connection with this business target. der the name 2 Air Charter. We cannot we founded a small airline with its own afford to take risks, as we’re the biggest warehouse and a 80-strong workforce in Business predictions are always diffi- UN service provider in the broker busi- Sharjah. In addition to this, we’re active cult to make – but what are your expec- ness field, and on top of this the value of in the automotive sector, support the oil tations for 2014? shipments we handle amounts to millions and gas industry, and transport heavylift We’re pursuing our strategy of having of dollars. items as a matter of course. We receive partnerships with forwarders and airlines, requests for quotations from a multitude such as Lufthansa and Swiss, but budget- In which business fields is Chapman of fields, but only 5% of them end up ing is complicated for us as a firm that Freeborn active? actually being carried out. doesn’t have its own substantial operat- Freight basically accounts for 70% of our ing capital. Nevertheless, I can tell you business. We evolved from humanitarian And where are you active in those do- that the figures for 2014 are already three aid flights. These still play an important mains you’ve just mentioned? times higher than planned. And that is role today, even though – and it might Basically we offer our services and can partially due to the humanitarian activi- not be suitable to mention this in the also position aircraft wherever the need ties in Africa.

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The first ship called at Neustädter Hafen in Bremen, which was still under construction, 50 years ago. Since then the port has stood for reliability and quality in break bulk cargo handling. 50 years of history mean 50 years of development. Planned as a port for conventional break bulk cargo, it was adapted to the requirements of containers and developed into Europe’s biggest terminal for break bulk and heavy- lift cargo. An optimal transport connection to road, water and rail networks makes the port the site of preference for handling high-quality steel and forestry products as well as break bulk and heavy-lift cargo. And development continues: the trend to bigger and heavier components is unchecked. For this reason the port is increasingly developing into BLG is also responding to the accelerates the handling of mass a location for the assembly of large requirements of the market by break bulk cargo, such as paper units. Assembled right on the water, making investments in modern and cellulose, has been put into the components can be taken over equipment. Recently a new mobile operation. Regular training courses by heavy-lift vessels and shipped port crane with a capacity of 140 enhance the handling of sensitive from Bremen all over the world. Unit tons was purchased to optimize goods and improve occupational weights of 800 tons have already heavy-lift cargo handling. Moreover, safety. Certified quality is actively been assembled and shipped there. a hydraulic crane that significantly practiced. www.blg.de International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 35

Do you notice the supposed shift from air to sea freight in your charter sector? Not really. You need to remember that our business always depends on the con- crete situation. We will remain a product of bad planning or disasters

What hurdles does your business face? Regulations. There are countries, such as India, where the situation for overflights and landings has improved greatly. In earlier times the only way to move a compressor from Dubai to Bangladesh in 48 hours was to take an absurdly long route via Sri Lanka, in order to circum- vent flying over India. China is also

Photo: Chapman Freeborn Chapman Photo: relatively restrictive in this matter. But a The unique An-225 landed in Switzerland for the first time last year, thanks to Chapman Freeborn. broker who knows what he is doing will always find a way. Major projects inevitably require long- in recently after an earthquake in Chile. term planning, on the other hand. Forwarding items by sea to complete a Where are the geographical growth Large companies naturally want to for- project would have taken too long. markets for air charters? ward their goods in an economical way. In my opinion there’s an ever greater South America is very interesting for us, However if a problem crops up – such as realisation in industry and trade that as is Australia. We’ve been present there the weather or for production reasons or almost anything is possible these days – for four to five years. The Middle East even on account of geopolitical develop- thanks to air chartering. This awareness, has always been an exciting region, whilst ments – then it’s time to charter an air- which wasn’t so common 10–15 years Europe and North America are develop- craft. This was reason why we had to step ago, has certainly helped us develop. ing somewhat sluggishly.

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From Rotterdam to Ranshofen A ship waiting for water

Felbermayr, an Austrian heavylift logistics company, dealt with a super-heavyweight order for the Austrian company Amag recently, transferring hundreds of tonnes from Rotterdam to Ranshofen.

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onwards – at a snail’s pace – on the roads Pho to Ranshofen, where the consignments Low water levels on the river Danube was one of the challenges facing Felbermayr. were to be delivered to a factory belong- ing to the Austrian aluminium manufac- a precise timetable and route, was strictly load was too heavy to be able to navigate turer Amag. adhered to. To move so much heavy mass a section of the Danube, due to rather en bloc over tranquil state and federal low water levels at the time. It was then Sufficient water under the keel? roads is a substantial logistics challenge. nevertheless possible to unload the two The heavy cargo was loaded onto a ship «Many traffic-control measures needed ships on schedule in Linz and to transfer in Rotterdam, and Haeger&Schmidt to be clarified in advance and windows their loads to special heavylift cargo low- International, a Felbermayr subsidiary, of opportunity had to be defined, as we loaders waiting there. took care of that part of the order carried had to navigate around bridges and fra- out on water. The water route, however, gile sections of infrastructure,» recalled Crossing 17 bridges brought with it pitfalls all of its own. Jürgen Steinbrecher, from Felbermayr’s The start of the road transport in mid- The route ran via the Rhine–Main– transport department in Wels. December 2013 was made by two roller Danube Canal to the heavy-cargo port Two days before the planned arrival stands, with a length of about 8 m and in Linz, which belongs to the Felbermayr of the ships at the Felbermayr port the a and a width of around 5 m. «Due to corporation itself. For onward transport bad news came through from Regens- by road a meticulous logistics plan, with burg. «The ship is waiting for water!» The continued on page 15

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200 t, the components were transported co Mar in a convoy on two 20-axle low-loaders,» : Steinbrecher reported. to Pho The United Nations operates to high standards in every field, including logistics. Using an entry as an exit Shortly after leaving the port, a 100 m United Nations approved supplier status attained bridge needed to be crossed at a snail’s pace, for reasons of structural stability. Allseas Global Logistics, an out-of-gauge (UNDP) had made it necessary for the «The low-loaders were pulled by two trac- forwarding specialist based in Bingham, firm to develop commitment to the tor units diagonally along the road surface in the English county of Nottingham- authorities concerned to enable regis- for this,» was how Steinbrecher described shire, has secured UN approved supplier tration, the manager elaborated. Allseas the principle of distributing the weight status. This official status recognises achieved excellence in all the required better. Sixteen further bridges were eas- Allseas’ commitment to expertise in the fields, including financial standing and ily crossed without any special measures humanitarian aid and relief sector. references from customers. Binge that the being needed. The firm said that the vote of confi- Allseas is very proud to have achieved the But after the convoy had covered dence came on top of Allseas recently recognition. Allseas has additionally at- 90 km it had to use the motorway exit gaining official authorisation as a suppli- tained supplier status from a number of Ort im Innkreis, and with it a bridge over er to other institutions. The enterprise is other bodies over the past six months. the A8 motorway which, due to the total also accredited with the same status with transport weight of 305 t, was not pass- the United Kingdom’s defence ministry, Success is based on many key factors able. The solution was to use the bridge- as well as a number of other international Carl Clark, Allseas business development free entry ramp as a provisional motorway professional bodies that make stipula- manager who has just returned from a exit, which called for the short closure of tions for who may supply them. stint as a logistics manager with the Brit- the highway and the removal of barriers ish army in Afghanistan, has previous to cross over to the other carriageway. An- Accreditation before orders experience in the field. «There is a lot of other convoy with two transporters fol- The status of supplier as well as adherence work to be done in the humanitarian aid lowed in January and also went to plan. to the rules and codes of conduct involved and relief sector. Allseas’ experience in are a precondition to receiving an order logistics activities in general and heavylift Ports to be expanded from one of the entities that make up operations in particular, as well as our In Germany the company focuses its the United Nation system. Group com- specialist knowledge, will help us to find activities on the inland port of Krefeld, mercial manager Mark Binge explained a role in this niche market,» he explained. where it owns an area that is being ex- that his company has «already carried out Clark believes that several factors con- panded by 15,000 sqm. A new 4,000 sqm some humanitarian aid and disaster re- tribute to success in the sector. Aid work heavylift cargo hall is also being built for lief efforts recently, and has now focused requires a dedicated team. He knows that the handling and intermediate storage of resources and efforts on detailed registra- you need good lines of communication in industrial components. Vienna’s inland tion and accreditation procedures.» place. You have to be ready to move 24 port of Albern is also being enlarged. In Various tender bids submitted to the hours a day, seven days a week.«I know 2014 an open storage space is being creat- United States Agency for International it sounds dramatic, but disasters are dra- ed and the quay adapted to meet heavylift Development (USAID) and the Unit- matic, and we have to be able to respond logistics needs. Josef Müller ed Nations Development Programme instantly and efficiently.» cd Deepsea transportationsince 1927 International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 41

malities. This why, Ben Abdallah added, «our experience as well as our reputation makes us a suitable partner to implement these processes. We provide complete insurance coverage through the entire supply chain and adhere to all health, safety, security and environment stand- ards (HSSE). The well-trained employees of our stevedoring company GMS Sfax, TAT ST

: with their extensive technical know-how to in the field, make us confident that we Pho A heavylift consignment being loaded on board a ship in the Tunisian port of Sfax. can provide the best project cargo ser- vices required.» STTAT Group Global presence STTAT specialises in chartering and Oil and gas – the pillars of the transporting project cargo from all over the world. «In 2012 and 2013 as well as in the first quarter of 2014 we’ve exclusively project cargo business in Tunisia carried out all the project cargo trans- portation and handling of wind towers The STTAT Group, one of the pioneers in the Tunisian maritime transport sector, from the port of Sfax to several European which is headquartered in Sfax, offers its customers its experience, know-how hubs for one of the biggest manufactur- ers in the wind power industry in North and modern infrastructure and material. Africa,» Ben Abdallah elaborated. Over and above this STTAT has also The STTAT Group successfully provides erating in this field. Faouzi Ben Abdal- transported an oil rig from the port of its customers with high-quality and cost- lah, the general manager of the STTAT Sfax to Central Africa. That task was effective services related to stevedoring, Group, said recently that «project cargo handled by the corporation’s stevedor- shipping agency, forwarding, customs services are complex operations requir- ing company for a British energy and brokerage, chartering brokerage as well ing safety, care and attention. STTAT’s gas projects firm. And last but not least, as options in the project cargo segment. experienced teams provide effective plans STTAT chartered a vessel for His Royal Over the years, the oil and gas industry as well as logistics and shipping solutions Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia in Jan- has become one of the biggest customers to overcome difficulties that may arise in uary, which transported the biggest flag for the project cargo industry in Tunisia. these sectors, especially of course in the pole in the world. Ben Abdallah closed Thanks to its network of branches STTAT oil, gas and energy industry.» by pointing out that this task too «was can offer first-class shipping solutions to Project cargo frequently also requires carried out to the full satisfaction of our and from all Tunisian ports to firms op- special customs and administrative for- customer, the king.» it

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Shipping offshore equipment From the Far East to the Gulf

The transport of oil and gas equipment is a classic service area for heavylift logistics service providers. The family-owned company Schleif Transport GmbH (STG) recently had the opportunity to be involved in the transport of such a system.

STG’s global presence is not yet a year challenge. STG opted to handle it in a old. It opened its own office to serve the multimodal transport chain. Carriage Southeast Asian market in Singapore in from the production site was carried out August 2013. The office is located in the using self-propelled modular trailers. The city state’s German Centre, which is op- company used ro-ro methods to move the G ST erated by the Landesbank Baden-Würt- unit from a pontoon to a freight ship.A : to

temberg. The move enabled STG to par- tug pulled the pontoon alongside the Pho ticipate in a heavylift logistics operation chartered heavylift freighter. The unit Carriage from the production site by SPMT. recently, carrying freight from Singapore was then loaded on to the freighter for to the United Arab Emirates. further transportation using the ships operations. The ultimate destination was on-board cranes, supported by some ad- an oil platform in the Arabian Gulf. Produced for the UAE dition special slings and hoists. Owner-operated Schleif Transport was The oil and gas equipment that was to The operation required the combined founded in Bremen (Germany) in 1996. be transported was destined for Emirati use of two cranes with lifting capacities of Its 18 years of project cargo experience offshore operations. The single piece of 80 t each. Finally the enormous piece of with plant and equipment stood it in plant weighed 100 t and was 18 m long, offshore equipment was heaved on deck good stead. Heavylift transportation and 5 m wide and 4.5 m high. The sheer bulk for the maritime leg. The company’s own ship loading are the main foci of STG, of the item posed a particular logistics inspectors were at hand to monitor the which has a branch in Belgium too. cd

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Port of Antwerp loads container crane An uncommon sight

Antwerp is one of the most important box-handling centres in Europe, so container cranes on the quays are a normal sight in the hub – in contrast aute to the unit that was shipped through the port on a pontoon recently. nh Va as om Th

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the chances are quite high that you will at the moment.A lock in Pho catch sight of a container crane. However, the port’s Deurganck dock The 145 m length of the crane convoy was quite a challenge. the possibility of spotting one on a pon- is due to be completed by toon, all ready to be shipped to Norway, 2016 at the latest, which means that the The crane was destined for the Norwe- is something rather different. The recent world record will then still be held by gian port of Larvik, where it will serve a shipment of such a piece of equipment Antwerp, but by the newly-built facility. container terminal. av created quite a spectacle in the hub. Especially its height of 69 m made loading the crane onto a pontoon in the Delwaide dock a remarkable spectacle, Blue Water Shipping renews Kazakh contract but the operators managed this. The crane was transported with a bascule laid Blue Water Shipping Aktau has renewed includes domestic railfreight for chemi- horizontally, making the convoy 145 m a contract to provide domestic freight ser- cals destined for Kazakh locations, with long and 89 m wide. vices to the Kazakhstan branch of Hal- most shipments headed for the cities Kzy- Early one March morning the load liburton International Inc, which is one lorda, Aksay and Shymkent. Blue Water passed through the Berendrecht lock, of the largest service providers to the oil has had a strong set-up in the Caspian which is 500 m long, making it the largest and gas industry worldwide. The contract region for many years now. av

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Four yachts shipped to the Mediterranean From Poole to Malta via Nice

The German company Global Boat Shipping (GBS) specialises in the transportation of special cargo such as motor boats and large yachts.But the recent shipping of no less than four yachts on a single vessel was a rather unique experience even for the specialist.

There was a spectacular transport task to be seen in the port of Poole, in the county of Dorset in southwestern England, re- cently. The German company Global Boat Shipping (GBS) was in charge of loading four so-called superyachts in the hub in March. The largest yacht was a Sunseeker Predator M5, which weighed in at 140 t, and which was accompanied by two more 28 m Sunseeker yachts weighing 80 t each. The fourth yacht was a 17 m unit made by Princess Yachts, based in Plymouth in the county of Devon. The luxury motor yacht manufacturer Sunseeker in turn is based in Poole.

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Eendracht, a Dutch vessel specially char- : tered for this voyage by GBS. The yachts, to Pho all of which are destined for the Mediter- The shipping of four yachts from England to the Mediterranean took place in splendid weather. ranean Sea, sailed through the English Channel headed for the Mediterranean during the discharge. Additionally, GBS Ft Lauderdale FL (USA) and Vancouver on board the breakbulk freighter. Two also supplied the necessary cradles. (Canada). The company has the neces- were being transported to Nice, in the sary equipment to offer load-on/load- south of France, whilst the other two were New offices off expertise as well as float-on /float-off bound for Malta and were expected to GBS Yacht Transport, which specialises services. arrive there a bit later. in handling and hauling large yachts and The firm is part of the Ems-Fehn GBS Yacht Transport organised the fast boats, has substantially expanded its Group, which means that GBS has good carriage, supervised the loading, pro- business this year by opening new of- access to the cargo vessels it requires, as vided a supercargo and was also present fices in ports located in Genoa (Italy), well as to an international network. av 46 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014

A Dynamar report on the worldwide heavylift fleet Size isn’t everything

Heavylift shipping lines are adapting to the trend towards ever heavier consignments in the segment by increasing the heavylift capa­ cities of their ships.A ranking by the Dutch consultancy Dynamar illustrates interesting developments between the industry’s leading firms. Dynamar senior shipping consultant Dirk Visser believes that the project cargo market will see some improvement in 2014.

More capacity is be on offer – but with smaller by 23 vessels. This is a result of If we take a look at the heavylift capacities fewer ships. This is the succinct summary the scrapping of elderly units as well as of each operator’s fleet, then the picture of prospective developments in the fleets delivery-slippage of a number of new- is a bit different. The table on the right of the ten largest breakbulk shipping lines buildings. The average age of the Chinese gives an overview of the top breakbulk that operate multipurpose or heavylift line’s ships came down from 17 to 8 years. operators by the aggregated heavylift freighters. capability of their operated fleet of multi- The shipping lines Cosco, Thorco, Merger causes a shake-up purpose ships – that is project cargo and BBC, Spliethoff, Swire, Rickmers-Linie, The merger of the major market players heavylift units – in mid-April 2014. Chipolbrok, Macs, Hansa Heavy Lift and Clipper Projects and Thorco into the Open-hatch gantry crane vessels Intermarine operated a total of 480 vessels new Thorco last summer has resulted (OHGC), ro-ro units, vehicle carriers, with a combined aggregate of 7.89 mil- in Thorco overtaking the second-placed specialist heavy-load ships and semi-sub- lion dwt in April 2014. This represented operator BBC Chartering in terms of dwt. mersible units are not included in this 7.4% more than the 7.35 million dwt that But with 131 units the latter continues to tally, even though they partially operate were managed early in 2013. deploy the largest number of ships by far. in breakbulk markets too. The Cosco Shipping Co remains Hansa Heavy Lift is the only newcomer On the cut-off date in mid-April 2014, the largest breakbulk operator by dead- in the list, coming in ninth and displa- the 480 vessels operated by these ten com- weight capacity, even though its fleet is cing PACC. panies have an aggregated heavylift capa-

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Fleet Orders Rank Shipping line Ships HLcap.Av.HLcap.Built Ships HLcap.Av.HLcap.Built HL’s share 1BBC 131 42,000 320 2007 54,000 800 2014 10% 2Hansa Heavy Lift 24 19,000 770 2010 00000% 3Thorco 100 18,000 180 2007 10100 2014 0% 4Cosco 62 16,000 250 2006 12 3,000 230 2015 19% 5Intermarine 45 13,000 280 2007 00000% 6Rickmers-Linie 18 9,000 520 2006 22000 900 2015 22% 7Spliethoff 51 9,000 170 2002 00000% 8Chipolbrok 17 9,000 500 2002 64000 640 2016 44% r

9Macs 14 2,000 130 2004 00000% nama 10 Swire 18 1,000 80 2002 40120 2014 0% Dy e:

Total top 10 480 136,000 280 2005 30 13,000 430 10% bl Ta The table shows the fleet of multipurpose project cargo and heavylift units of the ten largest operators in the heavylift /project cargo market. bility of 136,000 t (which is 31% higher tially higher average crane capacity per The question of how the market will than in early 2013), with an average of ship, however, namely a rather impressive develop in general this year remains 280 t per unit (which is, in turn, 29% 770 t. HHL also has the youngest ships, largely open in the opinion of the experts higher than in early 2013). on average. (see also page 17). Dirk Visser, a senior Thorco comes third in terms of its shipping consultant with Dynamar, a Several top lines in various categories aggregate lifting capacity. Rickmers-Linie market analyst based in Alkmaar in the With a total of 42,000 t, BBC Chartering vessels have a considerably higher lift- Netherlands, is cautiously optimistic, remains the most capable operator in the ing capacity per vessel, though, namely saying that «the breakbulk/project mar- pack, with the average heavylift capacity a very respectable 520 t, as do Chipol- ket was in a very bad state at the end of of the German company’s vessels coming brok’s units, hard on the fourth-placed 2013. It has improved now in 2014, with to 320 t. firm’s heels, with 500 t average lifting demand recovering and rates increasing The ships deployed by the company capacity per vessel. The heavylift capa- since March. I believe that the coming ranked second in the list, Hansa Heavy city of Thorco’s units comes to just 180 t year will be good – and that 2016 promi- Lift (19,000 t in total), have a substan- on average. ses to be even better.» Antje Veregge

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©fotolia.Blend Images International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 49 Marble to N’Djamena New Australian agent Landing on its six feet The British firm of Hunt &Palmer Cargo Charters has appointed the Wexco Group as its GSA for Australia and New Zea- land. This as part of a growth strategy for its cargo charter sector for Hunt &Palmer, founded in 1986. It has already entered into similar partnerships in Japan, North

r America, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ai s Luxembourg. Freight director Jamie Pe- Atla Damen : ters said that «this move comes at a time : to to

Pho when the Australian airfreight market is Pho The massive stones, flown on a Boeing B747. continuing to make gains, particularly The «MPI Resolution», with its feet in the air. demand for mining cargo». The Wexco B&B International, a freight forwarding Group, from Mascot near Sydney airport, Damen Arno Dunkerque, a part of the firmbasedinMions,closeto Lyon airport, was established 35 years ago and has expe- Dutch enterprise called the Damen and the French member of the Worldwide rience representing passenger and freight Shiprepair&Conversion Group, has in- Projects Consortium (WWPC) network, charter businesses, and in the handling of stalled a new set of «feet» on the MPI was recently involved in an exceptional exceptional and oversized consignments. Resolution, which was built in 2003 and heavy lift operation between Italy and was then the world’s first ship designed Chad. for the installation and maintenance of A Boeing B747 full-freighter of the US offshore wind turbines. airline Atlas Air was chartered and loaded On your marks... Go! The upgrading of the foundations of with 117.5 t of marble and other high- all six legs of the platform will give it the value construction materials at Milan After the first Business Run, which was additional strength it needs to withstand Malpensa airport, on the same date that held in Shanghai on the occasion of the the enormous stresses it has to bear when the WWPC network held its annual gene- Breakbulk China trade fair (see ITJ Daily working with extremely large loads on a ral meeting in Thailand (see page 77). of 11 March), this year’s second Business rocky sea bed. From there the cargo was transported Run, the 18th since its inauguration, will quickly and safely to central Africa, take place in Antwerp on 14 May. This Ship able to leave a day early where it is being used in the construction is the fifth time the race has been held In the first intervention of its kind to be of the new Grand Hotel in N’Djamena, in Antwerp, the city where the race first carried out on this type of ship, a new the capital city of Chad. took place, and it starts at 07.30 from the generation of composite metal plates «Because of the current congestion in Hilton Hotel, at Groenplaats 32. has been used. Damen Arno Dunkerque the port of Douala, there was no way of The early starting time is the only completed the work in a month, together achieving rapid transit by sea and then part of this event that demands a turn with Intelligent Engineering, during a by road between Cameroon and Chad,» of speed. As always, the race places the dry-dock overhaul after the vessel had Georges Gualdino of the B&B com- emphasis more upon conviviality and completed ten years in operation. Al- mented. The freight forwarder, which business contacts than on speed. The en- though the ship arrived at the French port was established in 1997, now employs 15 rolment fee for the event, for which the two weeks later than planned, it was able people, who all also have experience in ITJ is the media partner, will be donated to depart again on 3 April, a day earlier the field of project logistics. to the Tejo organisation. than originally scheduled. ah

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Best Logistics – From Szczecin to Głogów Liquid gas tank travels upstream

Air Liquide is currently having a large consignment transported from France to a new site in Poland. Best Logistics, a company that specialises in heavylift shipping on inland waterways, reports on a special part of the contract.

Last month, two of the largest pieces of service provider to find freight ever to be transported on the river unconventional solutions.

Oder were moved between Szczecin and The lack of a suitable road s ic Głogów (both Poland) by experts from link to a nearby port was st gi Lo

Best Logistics. The load’s destination was another difficulty that t Bes a construction site for a new technical cropped up. Without fur- : gas production facility that is being built ther ado, a ro-ro ramp was to Pho for the French company Air Liquide. To specially built close to the Travelling on a brand new road from the Oder to the building site. fulfil the transport task a large number unloading site and an aux- of struts, tanks and various other pieces iliary side canal was excavated between firm Felbermayr, which owns 80% of the of equipment had to be conveyed from the main waterway and the ramp. shares in Best Logistics. Even with such France to the DAP building site, via the The overhead clearance of the bridges a large inland waterway vessel it was still Baltic Sea port of Szczecin. on the stretch of river Oder to be navi- almost impossible to support the freight The biggest challenge was posed by gated was too low to allow the deploy- with steel beams or props. So Best Logis- two large heat exchangers, each measur- ment of pontoons. Instead, a special ro-ro tics employed an on-board gantry crane ing 18 x 7 x 6.5 m and weighing 143 t. barge was used. The vessel was sent from system to cross-load the massive consign- These dimensions forced the logistics the river Rhine to the river Oder by the ment onto a trailer. ah International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 51

Swiss forwarding and export packaging group T-LINK banking on quality A one-stop shop

The T-LINK Group (Switzerland) was founded in 1990. It operates production sites in Bassersdorf and Maienfeld (both Switzerland). The company focuses on four core sectors, namely export packaging, industry and project forwarding, exhibition logistics and trade fair agency. T-LINK chief executive officer Thomas Wirz and sales director Frank Fehrenkötter spoke to the ITJ’s Jutta Iten in Bassersdorf.

Mr Wirz, Mr Fehrenkötter, one could this practical, time-saving and individual say that you actually offer four separate solution. services which can be combined. Wirz: That’s correct. We’re active in the How should one envisage your pro- four sectors that you mentioned. cesses? Fehrenkötter: Well, export packaging «We’re the only company is usually for exports from Switzerland’s to offer the combination of engineering industry, which are to be forwarded as ocean freight for example. forwarding and export packaging.» Around 70% of our combined export packaging/industry and project-forward- Our speciality is offering forwarding and ing offers are sent by sea, 20% go as air- export packaging services as a combina- freight (these are often urgently needed

tion. The customer decides whether, and NK spare parts) and the remaining 10% by LI T- to what extent, they are provided in this : truck. form. This two-pronged service is unique to Pho in Switzerland, and gives clients an enor- A 65 t machine begins its journey in expertly- «Top-class, made-to-measure packaging mous advantages. There are other pack- made packaging with a particularly solid floor. from a single contact person.» aging firms that offer some forwarding services, but we’re effectively the only entity in Switzerland to provide such a ers, for example. When machinery is de- The corresponding figures for pure for- combination. livered we can immediately check on the warding services are 50% by sea, 30% by spot to see whether the foreseen packag- road and 20% by air. When hauling ma- Your Niederglatt and Dübendorf loca- ing is the best for the subsequent trans- chinery by road we have a pool of T-LINK tions were merged two years ago. Has port route (corrosion protection may be special vehicles that, when closed, can that proved to have been a good move? required for instance), or whether equip- carry loads up to 4.5 m wide and 3.9 m Wirz: Yes, because communication is ment has to be dismantled so that it can high. We attach the greatest importance now optimal, on account of the shorter be stowed in a container. to the quality of these vehicles and their distances, and the infrastructure is pre- This modus operandi enables us to drivers – particularly because most of our cisely tailored to our needs. We have guarantee protection that is precisely customers stem from the engineering in- indoor and outdoor cranes for handling tailored to protect capital equipment machinery, and 20, 40 and 45 ft contain- during transport. Our clients appreciate continued on page 53

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Wirz: Because we create added value Pho for the customer. He receives top-class, Are customers prepared to pay accord- T-LINK’s workshop in Bassersdorf, where experts made-to-measure packaging for his valu- ingly for this service? manufacture top-class packaging. able freight that may be destined let’s say Wirz: Well, good quality does have its for the Far East. The client has one single price. Switzerland’s engineering industry a certain shift caused by the euro’s devel- contact person for transport, packing and still demands quality. Our clients are opment. Swiss quality remains a positive the entire forwarding procedure. aware that they require premium packag- sales argument almost everywhere in the Fehrenkötter: We think long and hard ing because, in turn, they also want to world. Our foci are currently on the Far about the needs of our customers and of do the best they can for their customers. East/Middle East, Russia, etc. (60%), industry. Packaging is one matter, but we North, Central and South America take on additional responsibility with the «Swiss quality remains a (25%), as well as Europe (25%). subsequent logistics services too. We have positive sales argument to order a crane if necessary, and organise Allow me to return to your locations special transport (including special per- almost everywhere in the world. » again. Will they remain as they are? mits, etc.), in order to be in a position to Wirz: One thing is certain – we won’t unload machinery at a client’s site. As I Proper export packaging is extremely im- make any acquisitions at the moment, but mentioned, this means extra responsibil- portant mainly because, depending on we’ll continue to grow organically, as we ity for us and less risk for a client. the transport route, out-of-gauge goods have done for the last few years. We’re On top of that, the combined solution have to be cross-loaded more frequently. very satisfied with Bassersdorf (and its shortens the process time, as scheduling The importance of correct packaging in- proximity to Zurich airport), and Maien- can proceed simultaneously. This is an creases in proportion to the sensitivity of feld is favourably sited near its local cli- advantage that our customers appreciate. the goods. This applies in particular to ents in the Rhine valley. oversized pieces of cargo. This is where How important is intermodal transport? our top class trucks come into play once The Project Professionals Group PPG Wirz: Very important. We like to choose again. They offer extra width for gene- the inland waterways, to keep overland rously-dimensioned shipments. T-LINK, a 100% Swiss owned entity, is trips, with their need for special permits Switzerland’s exclusive representative in one that are sometimes difficult to obtain, as So the motto is Swiss machinery in of the world’s leading associations of project short as possible. A 30 to 40 t packed ma- Swiss packaging? cargo forwarders. The Project Professionals chine is ideal for intermodal transport. Fehrenkötter: Demand in this segment Group is dedicated to the safe, cost-effective We either pack the item at one of our sites is still good, even though there has been transport of project shipments.

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Project logistics and e-marketing hand in hand A piping hot marketing concept

Heavy Load Freight Services, a Dubai-based company, was able to ship pipes as part of a project logistics operation for a leading pipe manufacturer. The service provider has also started using innovative new marketing methods to attract new customers.

A leading multinational pipe manufac­ and tools, and reached Cartagena in the turer recently issued a call to tender for specified time frame. the delivery of pipes to Cartagena (Colo­ mbia). Both the size of the pipes, as well Novel methods to attract clients

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port into a rather special challenge. The operations, as a matter of course. This Pho carrying out of the project was awarded stiffens the competition enormously. The Fragile goods need the correct handling tools. to Heavy Load Freight Services (HLFS), HL Khouli Group is now banking on a a member of the HL Khouli Group, head­ more prominent presence in the internet Lokhande has drawn up a digital process quartered in Dubai. in order to reach out to new customers. that automates and standardises most To achieve this, the Emirati corporation of the company’s booking processes. A Lashing and unloading has boosted its workforce by the addition customer can enter his requirements on The transport took place in April this of Asmita Lokhande. The new assistant a web­based booking platform and can year. The pipes were stowed in 40 ft con­ manager of group corporate communi­ then receive an online estimate. The lo­ tainers and lashed into place with straps. cations is in charge of building up an gistics service provider is now deploying At their destination, the boxes were un­ e­marketing team that is expected to reap this new modus operandi to reinforce its loaded, with the aid of special vehicles rewards for the firm in the medium term. traditional marketing methods. cd

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Good things take time Ship unloader straight to a fjord

In project logistics, the preparation phase can be quite long. In the case of transporting a ship unloader to Nor- way for a new fish-food production facility for the farmed salmon company Marine Harvest, the work for Bremen project specialist Ipsen Logistics started in September 2012, more than one and a half years ago. The reason

was that the first feasibility studies on the possibility of en Ips : moving the equipment to the future site of operation were to Pho included as part of the location planning. The ship unloader in transit on SAL Heavy Lift‘s «Lone».

Now the firm has announced that the construction on The vessel was moored to the company’s own pier. This allowed the ship the Valsneset peninsula in the municipality of Bjugn unloader to be discharged directly onto the rails provided for it, and it (Norway) is nearing completion – production is due to was then almost immediately ready for use. start in June. Time then to deliver the ship unloader. At Henrique Wohltmann, the company’s projects director, was pleased the start of the year, Neuero Company began disassem- with the successful completion of the rather challenging transport task, bling the equipment in the port of Bremen (Neustädter explaining that «we have experience with remote destinations. But even Hafen) for transport, because there is not enough space then it’s not simply a matter of transporting large parts, but rather of at the destination for the use of a mobile crane. The realising the best concept for the task at hand.» it ship unloader measures 15 x 10 x 27 m and has a boom measuring 20 m in length and weighing 170 t.

Just one very large piece Loading was done in one piece. One of the more notable challenges was the fact that the centre of gravity is in the upper third of the ship unloader, but the crane rope can only be fastened to the vehicle chassis. In order to reli- ably manage such a situation and to be able to transport a device of these dimensions, a suitable heavylift ship with www.zenit-spedition.at the appropriate on-board crane was needed – along with plenty of experience. Selecting the shipping line to be entrusted with the job therefore involved a thorough assessment. As Marco Steinforth, project manager at Ipsen Logistics explained, technical aspects and cooperation during the planning phase were the factors that decided it in favour of SAL Heavy Lift. «In addition to meeting the technical require- ments, the coordination between all participants on is- sues such as lashing and securing points, as well as other aspects of the ocean leg of the journey, were important success factors,» according to the logistics enterprise.

Unloader discharged onto rails at firm’s own pier On 3 April the time had finally come. In five hours of careful precision work, the ship unloader was safely load- ed onto SAL Heavy Lift’s freighter, the Lone. Project man- ager Steinforth oversaw the loading and accompanied the There‘s no ‚No Can Do‘ with ZENIT ... we are the SpecialEast! shipment to the port of discharge, in order to oversee the Multimodal solutions for plant systems and projects. unloading operation. The final destination was the con- Western- and Eastern Europe .The Balkans .Turkey .Iran .CIS .CentralAsia .Mongolia .Near East .NorthAfrica ZENIT -neutral handling guaranteed. struction site in central Norway, about 100 km northwest A-5101 Bergheim .Tel. +43/662/45 40 41 .offi[email protected] of Trondheim, in one of the country’s numerous fjords. D-Furth im Wald .Tel. +49/99 73/80 48-0 .offi[email protected] 56 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 t or ansp Tr l sa er iv Un : to Pho The 100 t transformers were securely lashed to two flat-bed trailers with twelve axles each for the journey to Norway.

A heavy load hauled on flat-bed trailers Transformers to Europe’s northernmost city

The Norwegian city of Hammerfest’s status as Europe’s northernmost city is frequently The voltage adapters were subsequently cited. The recent transportation of two huge transformers to the northern town made transported by road to the sea port of Wismar (Germany), 450 km away. There headlines primarily on account of the consignment’s great weight, however. a port crane lifted the heavy units off the trailers and transferred them to the hold The journey of the two giant transform- about 2.6 m wide pieces of equipment were of a waiting ship. In the port of Europe’s ers started at a Siemens plant in Dresden heaved by crane onto heavylift lorries pro- northernmost city, located on the Barents (Germany) early in April. They were load- vided by the heavylift logistics specialist Sea, the transformers were once again ed onto trucks there ready to be hauled Universal Transport. The 100 t monoliths loaded onto lorries for the final leg of approximately 3,200 km to Hammerfest were securely lashed to the two flat-bed their journey, which was to a site around (Norway). The 7 m long, 4 m high and trailers, which had twelve axles each. 30 km from the port of discharge. av

A multimodal transport chain for some heavyweights

AsstrA Associated Traffic AG, a transport (Russia). The firm deployed road-trains and logistics holding from Zurich (Switz- with low-bed trailers, mobile cranes that erland), recently carried out a combined could lift up to 350 t, the coastal ship- transport task using three different modes ping vessel Konak, the breakbulk freighter of transport. It handled heavy and over- Okskij 25, another crane capable of lifting sized consignments weighing between 12 250 t and the concomitant accompany- A

and 45 t and consisting of machine parts ing vehicles which ensured that the trans- str As for the wood-processing industry which port was always safe en route. The com- : were needed by Kronospan. pany was happy to have demonstrated to Pho The transport started off in Brasov the functioning interplay of the various Various modes of transport linked up to manage (Romania) and led to Rostov-on-Don modes of transport involved. nau the transportation of machine parts. International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 57

German association informs about escorted transports Focusing on heavylift transport

The legal aspects of escorted high volume and heavylift transports and the obtaining of the relevant permits were recently the focus of a well-attended event held by the German heavylift and crane operating association BSK (Bundesfachgruppe Schwertransporte und Kranarbeiten).

On 15 March 2014, the first meeting of this size was held at the invitation of BSK

BSK member firms that handle the civil : protection of high volume and heavylift to Pho transports. In Nohra near Weimar the A discussion on the privatisation of police duties is ongoing, and in this context the question of 130 representatives of road escort com- whether they may relinquish certain escort duties and hand them over to civil bodies has arisen too. panies who attended the meeting also learned about issues relating to insurance ration Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge gave a not only meet the demands of wind pres- law and were given an outline of the rules picture of the demands that have to be sure and the increased roof load which that govern the piloting of oversize loads met by a class BF4 escort vehicle with a it induces, but also the adverse effect on in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxem- forward-facing VMS unit, which must cooling performance. ah bourg, Switzerland and Austria. In this connection special emphasis Second heavy transport night in the North German two-city state was placed on the rules applying in Aus- tria, where all escorted movements are ac- At the request of organisations representing the transport industry in the northern German state companied not by police officers but by of Bremen – namely the Bremen transport industry association (LVB) and the logistics provider certified road supervising managers with BLG, in addition to the BSK itself – the managers in the senate department of internal matters, official powers. transport and economic affairs examined the possibility of opening the night of Friday to Saturday The meeting was rounded off by an for heavylift transport, if such transport tasks did not necessitate the involvement or presence of exhibition of products from suppliers the police. With a letter dated 23 April the senator for construction, environment and transport of transport vehicles, such as Mercedes- stated that the deputation addressing the matter had agreed to the request. This means that in Benz, fully-equipped escort vehicles and principle, the nights of Friday to Saturday and Sunday to Monday, stretching from 22.00 to 06.00, variable message sign units (VMS). Never can be used for the transport of large and heavy loads without a police escort. BSK has called the ministerial decision «an extremely gratifying outcome» and evidence of «the highly constructive before had eight manufacturers from this cooperation, for the benefit of all concerned, between senators, the road transport office and the field been represented at an event of this port and transport industry.» kind in Germany. In a lecture the corpo-

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In conversation with Alexander Shelkov of Moscow-based Instar Logistics A balanced portfolio

It is common knowledge that competition has become stiffer in the heavylift sector.A global company of Russian origin that works in the industry has to cope with this, and also deal with some special challenges at the moment. Against this backdrop the ITJ’s Antje Veregge put some questions to Alexander Shelkov, director general of Instar Logistics, about the current situation.

Mr Shelkov, which would you call your core markets? We are not only a heavylift project for- warder with around 800 employees in various CIS countries, as well as Eu- rope and the Middle East, we also have our own assets. We have 46 Goldhofer axle lines, Mercedes Titan prime movers and ro-ro barges at our disposal. We are therefore able to execute projects with our own resources. Our main markets are in the fields of power generation, refinery, petrochemical and offshore projects. s ic st gi Lo Where do you see further potential? r sta In

Over the next few years we foresee a lot : of movement in the petrochemical sector, to Pho as well as in refinery modernisation and The weather is a key factor in project handling in Siberia, Instar’s Alexander Shelkov said recently. power generating industries. weather conditions, with a temperature of Our subsidiary in Ukraine is faced with What projects have you handled recently? –15°C and 1 m of snow. an aggressive price war in a shrinking We completed a very large project in the market. Many potential projects that are power generation industry at the end of How do you see the market today? on the drawing board have simply been last year. It was connected to construc- Conditions are very tough and the em- shelved. We are seeing a critical decrease tion work on the Polyarnaya power plant, phasis is on costs. This puts pressure on in business activity there. located in Salekhard, northern Siberia. the prices and margins of all providers. It We delivered approximately 50,000 t of will squeeze some companies out of the What do you expect from the current year? equipment with two heavylift vessels, market in coming years. We are optimistic about the future, as making use of the northern sea route our business activities are well distribut- through the Arctic Sea. The shipment You are present in both Russia and ed across regions and products. We have was discharged onto 17 offshore ro-ro Ukraine. Does the current political up- already been able to secure a number of barges in Obskaya Bay. During the over- heaval affect your business? Are goods large projects in the power generation, land leg we had to cope with very harsh flows being hampered, for instance? refinery and offshore industries.

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Salammbô Group expanding Focusing on project cargo

The Tunis-based Salammbô Group was founded in 1999 by Mohamed Hechmi Briki, general manager, who continues to head the corporation today. The group is active in different fields and thus operates with several subsidiaries (see box). Salammbô Projects, the company’s heavylift, oil/gas and projects department, operates as an independent business unit in the Salammbô Group.

The Group has expanded throughout the Maghreb countries, by successively setting up offices in Algeria and Libya, namely Salammbô Shipping Algeria and Salammbô Libya. The group’s subsidiary, Salammbô Projects, operates in the ever more important heavylift sectors of the oil and gas industry and in the project cargo segment. This division operates as an independent business unit in the Salammbô Group. It is run by a team of project cargo and heavylift experts.

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The unit provides dedicated services tai- bô mm lored to meet the specific needs of the oil la Sa and gas industry, as well as of companies s: in the engineering, procurement, con- to Pho struction, energy, fertiliser and windmill Project cargo handling activities (l) and lifting a rolling unit on to a heavylift freighter. industries. The unit’s services include de- tailed planning and monitoring, procure- ments to Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea customers with first-class consultancy ser- ment, carrying out construction and as- and Persian Golf countries. «At Salammbô vices, meet their every challenge and make sembly work, as well as project handling. Projects we believe that consultancy, chal- the difference in terms of the treatment we The group’s business development lenge, difference are the keys to success. provide our customers with. This is what manager Lotfi Kefi told the ITJ that «at What this means is that we provide our they have paid for, after all.» Jutta Iten Salammbô Projects, we orchestrate some of the most complex supply chain activi- ties for mining, power generation, wind The Salammbô Group mill components and offshore energy ex- ploration and production enterprises.» Salammbô Shipping is active in the ship agency field in all of Tunisia’s maritime ports. Over and above this, the entity Salammbô Shipping also works in the ship and slot affreightment and chartering business, as well Consultancy, challenge, difference as a ship broker. Salammbô Project is currently heavily in- volved in oil and gas logistics in the Middle Salammbô Logistics East and in North Africa. In 2013 and also is the group’s logistics firm. It has an office in Tunis as well as a customs-bonded warehouse in in the first quarter of 2014 the company the Radès port compound. It offers international transport solutions (groupage and full loads) in shipped 116 rolling units, 40 twenty-foot trade to and from Europe, the United States of America, Africa, the Far East, etc. National logistics flat-rack units and several breakbulk ship- and distribution activities are also on offer. Customs clearance services also form a part of this entity’s portfolio.

Salammbô Air Freight and Cargo Services acts as a cargo airline representative. It has an office at Tunis Carthage airport, the hub that serves the Tunisian capital city, as well as premises in Sfax. It is a member of the International Air Transport Association (Iata).

Salammbô Projects manages the customer-oriented handling as well as the transportation of particularly large Mohamed Briki, Lotfi Kefi, and/or heavy consignments which require a high degree of expertise, especially the handling president and chief business development of such units by one of the various modes of transport, be it air, road and sea. Services include executive officer. and projects manager. lifting, jacking and skidding. Strong and caring

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Off the road at night in Mongolia A route to Central Asia s

A transport route of 10,000 km is as such not an unusual requirement. If transit through ran tt La :

four different countries needs to be accomplished, however, and the destination is Ulan to Pho Bator, then an unusual heavylift operation is certainly scheduled. An unusual sight in Mongolia.

The trucks operated by the Latvian heavylift transport was available, which police marking the direction. The desti- transport company Lattrans processed by no means meant an end to the many nation was, however, reached successfully a special transport covering no less than difficulties. and the cooperation with the local au- 10,000 km at the end of 2013. The trans- thorities is now but a positive memory. port started in the German city of Neu- Close cooperation with the police In addition to Mongolia, Lattrans has traubling and went all the way to the On the last section of the route it was specialised in heavylift transport op- Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. only possible to conduct the transport erations in the Central Asian republics at night, due to special local conditions. of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Route inspection of the special sort What is more, it was necessary to drive off Turkmenistan and the Far Eastern region The transport alone took a whole month. the road, with only the signal lights of the of Russia. Christian Doepgen The trucks crossed four countries overall and switched the accompanying teams several times. The dimensions of the individual vehi- Cargo Equipment Experts in New Jersey cles amounted to a total of 20 m in length, 5.2 m in width and 4.95 m in height. As HLI Logistics has been appointed as a The HLI Logistics’ rail and equipment the transport needed to be carried out in new member of the Cargo Equipment department implemented the new con- the winter months, rough weather con- Experts network (CEE) in New Jersey. figuration. The wagon can now carry ditions also had to be contended with, HLI Logistics will offer services in the 400 t and transport goods covering a bringing rather difficult conditions on fields of railway transport as well as pro- surface area of 12.8 m or up to 13.7 m the roads. viding expert opinions. long. This also allows the transportation In addition, on the basis of the previ- The company recently implemented a of goods that are not typically suitable for ous route inspection, a meandering route technical capacity expansion project for the Schnabel wagon type. with numerous detours had to be taken. a railway wagon of the Schnabel CCRX HLI Logistics has also entered into Crossings in particular, that is bridges, 40010 type. The waggon, which is oper- an exclusive agreement with the Contrac- road crossing and level crossings, all re- ated by Contractor Cargo and can usually tors Cargo Corporation to have the lat- quired numerous sophisticated solutions. transport loads of up to 550 t, had an ter’s rail wagons with 10, 12 and 20 axles For Mongolia, the official permit for the additional upper tween deck integrated. available at customers’ requests. cd

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Imperial Baris transports a Hanseatic cog Just like in the good old days

Project cargo shipments usually pertain to heavy equipment or machinery. A task tackled by Imperial Baris recently was completely different, however – the firm was asked to ship a cog from Lithuania to Germany.

The Kogas, a cog that has already been seen in the German television drama «Störte- beker», evokes nostalgic memories of the North Sea’s Hanseatic shipping industry. The vessel recently crossed that sea again, coming from Lithuania for delivery in the

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26 x 8 x 5 m, required a logistics concept er Imp that went far beyond what the heavylift : or project cargo segment usually calls for. to Pho The German firm Amadeus Schif- The cog that was shipped from Lithuania is set to become an adventure restaurant in Berlin. fahrts- und Speditions GmbH, one of Imperial Baris GmbH’s sister firms, was crane to load the ship onto the freighter Now the Kogas has cast anchor in Berlin, in charge of handling the shipment from Lore Prahm. The voyage to Szczecin took where it is due to be refurbished. Its fu- Lithuania. The transport was routed from two days. There a pushboat combination ture is still uncertain, though. If the au- Klaipeda (Lithuania) to Berlin via Szc- took over and transported the fake an- thorities issue the requisite permits, then zecin (Poland). tique to Berlin on the country’s inland it will serve as a restaurant and canteen The cog’s 15 m mast was first partial- waterways. This leg had to be completed ship with a maritime flair in the capital ly dismantled, thus enabling a floating in accordance with a precise schedule. from June onwards. Antje Veregge

The world’s largest ship’s propeller churns up the port of Hamburg

HHLA’s box terminal in Altenwerder a diameter of 10.3 m and weighs an im- firm Mecklenburger Metallguss in Waren (Germany) handled the world’s largest pressive 113 t, was lifted off its pontoon an der Müritz in eastern Germany, from containership propellor in mid-March. and placed in the ship’s hold by a float- where it was hauled to Hamburg on a The huge five-bladed screw, which boasts ing crane. The propellor was made by the 30 m heavylift truck. av A HHL : to Pho A ship’s propellor – paradoxically a rare sight in the port of Hamburg – being loaded on to a container vessel. RELIABLE. DIVERSE. COMPETENT. YOUR WISH. OUR STYLE.

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Copenhagen Malmö Port is focusing on the automotive sector Specialisation brings great returns

This is green logistics with a difference. The joint port of Copenhagen and Malmö has handled a consignment of exceedingly long environment-friendly buses.

Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP), the joint Swedish-Danish port of Copenha- gen and Malmö, recently handled the first of a total of 15 so-called superbuses as ro-ro cargo in the Frihamnen section of the hub, located on the Swedish side in

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are scheduled to enter service in Malmö Pho this summer. 24 m long buses leaving a ro-ro vessel in Copenhagen Malmö Port. According to Johan Ullenby, the chief operating officer for port and terminal the facilities and space required to receive low levels of damage incurred,» he con- operations at CMP, receiving the consign- vehicles of this type, which also includes tinued. Being very careful is frequently ment of buses is a good example of the lorries, excavators, tracked units or any not enough, however, so the hub has success of the port’s strategy of offering other large vehicles,» the COO said. «Of special quays, surfaces and tracks which specialised services in the high and heavy course our employees are very careful together provide tailor-made solutions for cargo category. «Here at CMP we have all when handling the vehicles, resulting in its vehicle customers. av/nau

Seaway Heavy Lifting installs a transformer topside in a North Sea wind farm

The Dutch specialist Seaway Heavy Lift- Seaway performed the lift using the dyna- with a capacity of generating 3.6 MW ing, which is based in Zoetemeer, has mic positioning system on its crane vessel each. It is expected to save about 1 mil- installed a 3,300 t so-called transformer Oleg Strashnov. With the installation of lion t of CO2 annually. Seaway’s involve- topside in the North Sea. The transporta- the topside the wind farm has now been ment in the Meerwind project started in tion task was carried out in the context of completed. September 2011. In the second quarter the project Meerwind south/east, which The Meerwind offshore wind farm, of 2013 the company installed transition is being set up in the German Bight and which consists of the Meerwind south pieces for the undertaking. is managed by the German company and Meerwind east fields, has a capacity Jens Assheuer, WindWM’s managing WindMW. of 288 MW. It boasts 80 wind turbines director, was very pleased with the way the project had gone. «Completing this installation work represents the end of a very satisfactory collaborative accom- plishment. I was particularly impressed with the expert handling of the special equipment involved.» Peter de Bree, Sea- way Heavy Lifting’s chief operating of- ficer, said that «this was our first such job in the North Sea again after a six-month hiatus. The good weather and planning efforts of everyone involved enabled us to complete our task in 24 hours.» g

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EMPIRIC to help improve Central European links Extend business opportunities through multimodal cooperation in Central Europe

«Extend your business opportunities through multimodal cooperation in Central Europe. The experience of the EMPIRIC project.»

The economic productivity of a region is strongly linked to efficient freight transportation solutions. Good accessibility is crucial to participation in in- ternational freight flows. Currently, the ease of

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gions where missing or neglected transport lines Pho cause weak accessibility. The Venice Port Authority is the leading agency in the EMPIRIC project.

«Projects in the CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME The project is led by the Venice Port Authority, along the Baltic–Adriatic transport corridor. In help to improve international traffic flows, en- with the involvement of 12 partners in Central this respect, EMPIRIC helps to boost future eco- couraging intermodal transport and thereby Europe. It was created to seek out the potential nomic development of the various regions along enhancing access to the continent’s various re- for innovative multimodal transport solutions and the BAC and introduces measures in different gions,» explained Christiane Breznik, Managing logistics services between the greater Baltic Sea sectors of the freight transport market that aim Authority, CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME, and Adriatic Sea regions, along the Baltic–Adri- at increasing utilisation of truly multimodal con- Head of the Unit. atic transport corridor (BAC). This major European cepts. freight-trading route is recognised as one of the 9 core corridors of the new EU TEN-T policy, which EMPIRIC’s transnational approach has enabled was approved in December 2013. the stakeholders to analyse and compare existing practices applied in the logistics sector in differ- Supported by research and analysis, EMPIRIC ent countries and understand what pre-conditions As central Europe’s markets are growing and EU has brought together major policymakers, stake- are seen as crucial for the implementation of eco- trade with Asia is becoming ever more important, holders and market players from this important nomically viable and environment-friendly freight we can expect an increase in transport in the corri- Central European north–south axis together, to transport solutions. EMPIRIC supports all of the dor linking Baltic Sea hubs to North Adriatic ports. develop more efficient, reliable, as well as more partners and stakeholders involved to think about By encouraging multiple modes of transport, with sustainable forms of transportation of goods, with the European relevance of their local development an emphasis on rail and waterways, the EMPIRIC a higher share of railways and inland waterways. plans towards the goal of establishing the core project is part of the effort to keep traffic moving network towards 2030 and the comprehensive smoothly through the corridor while reducing its Having analysed freight traffic flows, logistics network towards 2050. environmental impact. services and market incentives in Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, For more information on the impact analyses of The EMPIRIC project also seeks to improve access EMPIRIC has provided the requisite technical and new multimodal services and infrastructures, the between key ports and the rest of Central Europe, policy recommendations needed to increase the Business Cafès that have been organised, the thereby creating new business opportunities. utilisation of greener freight transport solutions programme’s analyses on incentives for the mul- timodality and all the other output and deliverable ideas of the project, feel free to have a look at www.empiricproject.eu or contact us directly by writing to [email protected] or to [email protected].

The EMPIRIC project is co-financed by the Euro- pean Regional Development Fund through the EMPIRIC is seeking to improve links between central ports and other Central European regions. CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME. International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 69

Special shipments are routine for this player icopters, belonging to the Italian manu- facturer, AgustaWestland, were loaded at Milan Malpensa airport. Italian helicopters The heavylift cargo specialist Volga- Dnepr was also in charge of organising the more than 30 mile road transport fly to California leg between Los Angeles airport and the exhibition centre, as part of its freight su- Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines recently deployed an Antonov freighter, together with its permarket services. partner company, Ruslan International, to simultaneously transport four helicopters. This Four of more than 700 flights cargo shipment was not an isolated incident, but nevertheless required special treatment. «When transporting helicopters we use special procedures, because large helicop- ters require a special loading plan,» ex- plained Alexey Stepanov, Volga-Dnepr’s loading supervisor. He went on to say that «these usually include packaging the previously dis- mantled rotor blades, so that they can be loaded onto the flight together with the helicopter and other equipment and spare parts.»

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GEA Heat Exchangers delivers equipment to northern Siberia

GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermi- 2018. The operating company, Yamal The climate also represents a special chal- ques (GEA BTT), a subsidiary of the GEA LNG, which is 60% owned by Novatek lenge for the plant construction. The heat Heat Exchangers corporation, which is and 20% by Total as well as CNPC, re- exchangers are intended to withstand Si- headquartered in the western German spectively, wants to build the new plant berian temperatures for decades and must city of Bochum, has received a record in the South Tambey gas field. be designed accordingly. GEA BTT is order worth more than EUR 40 mil- GEA BTT’s heat exchangers are to be therefore drawing on its experience from lion from the plant construction firms deployed in three LNG lines, each pro- other projects in the power plant sector Technip and JGC. The order is for more cessing 5.5 million t of gas every year. The as well as in the oil and gas industries. than 400 air-cooled heat exchangers, for a extracted natural gas will be liquefied in three-strand liquefied natural gas (LNG) the plant, so that it shrinks to around a Experience of climatic conditions plant currently under construction on the 600th of its original volume. Philippe Piron, managing director of Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. GEA BTT and in charge of the company’s GEA BTT will design the heat ex- Maritime transport to Europe and Asia air-cooled heat exchanger division, said changers, manufacture them over a pe- In this form, the natural gas can then that he is «delighted that we won the or- riod of three years and then deliver them. be cost-effectively transported by sea to der for this very interesting project.» GEA Technip and JGC are jointly developing its target markets in Europe and Asia. BTT was awarded the order based on its and constructing the first Arctic LNG A special LNG tanker with a capacity experience of developing and construct- plant in Russia. The commissioning is of 170,000 cbm has been developed, in ing heat exchangers to be used in critical expected to take place in three phases order to be able to transport the LNG and climatically-exceptional operating and is scheduled for between 2016 and through the Arctic Sea. conditions. ah 70 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 New BBC locations BBC Chartering, a German provider of ocean heavylift and project cargo car- riage, opened a new representative office in Bilbao (Spain) in April. The company

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January. These markets were previously : managed from Germany, but Jens Meil- to Pho vang, BBC’s chief chartering officer, said ADPC handled its largest and longest heavylift load ever in Abu Dhabi’s free port in April. that the time had come to establish closer ties to these regions. av A new record in Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) total of 3,367 t, arrived in the hub on the handled the largest and longest heavylift Dongbang Giant No 1, a project cargo car- load it has ever received in the emirate’s rier coming from Ulsan (South Korea). free port in mid-April. The largest piece The freighter had to occupy three berths of equipment weighed 1,531 t, was 12 m of the free port to unload its cargo. wide and 116 m long The heavylift shipment was transferred Five heavylift pieces of infrastructure to the quay in a roll-off operation, with equipment were unloaded in the Emirati 76-axle self-propelled modular trailers port last month, destined for the Abu (SPMTs) deployed in the process. From Dhabi Oil Refining Company’s new there the cargo was on-forwarded along ring te

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: bi (United Arab Emirates). Each of the ment as well as the operational activities to consignments weighed between 140 and in the free port, which is located adjacent Pho BBC has established a presence in Spain. 1,531 t. The equipment, which weighed a to Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Port. av

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High-tech fibres from Seilflechter Slings for very heavy loads

Round slings made of Novoleen are well-suited for seriously heavy lifts, and offer high load-carrying capacity as well as excellent handling characteristics. Made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, this helper meets the highest heavy load demands.

The high-performance fibre made of which can play a very large role when Novoleen, which is produced by the Ger- asymmetrical loads and varying lengths man manufacturer Seilflechter (which of the lifting accessories are involved. er ht ec means rope weaver in English), reduces fl il Se the weight of round slings by up to 60%, Combination with high technology : compared to Birolen, a special polyester to Novoleen round slings can also be Pho fibre made by the same company. The equipped with RFID technology, if re- Novoleen round slings make handling and effective length and load carrying capac- quired. The technology makes product transporting heavy loads easier. ity is also the same for the two products. documentation much easier and assists Novoleen also significantly reduces rope the user in the periodic visual and func- the slings, the cover can optionally be elongation. tional testing that has to be performed made of Novoleen. The lower volume and reduced width once a year, in accordance with the trade The firm Seilflechter Tauwerk GmbH, of the Novoleen round slings has proven association’s safety regulations (as speci- whose history dates to 1745, offers equip- to be particularly beneficial, especially fied in BGR 500). ment for lifting, pulling and securing, when combined with shackles, smaller Seilflechter offers standard Novoleen for industrial and water sports (sailing). crane hooks and attachment points. In- round slings with a protective cover made About 140 km of rope is produced daily creased precision is achieved as well with of polyester. In order to significantly im- at the company’s main plant in Braun- the special manufacturing technology, prove the abrasion and rip resistance of schweig (Germany). ah

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Hamburg losing conventional breakbulk volumes Project business under pressure

The port of Hamburg has seen its conventional breakbulk throughput drop by more than 20% over the past two years. The business community in the northern German city has put together a package of measures aimed at turning around this downward trend, at least in the high-value project cargo segment. As a last resort, the authorities are prepared to enter into new partnerships, to make sure the port does not lose touch with the market leaders in this hotly-contested segment, despite the problems concerning infrastructure.

Growth of 4.4% in container traffic and an even more impressive 7.2% uptick in the handling of bulk cargo – the 2013 throughput figures for the German port of Hamburg are nothing if not respect- able. But there is a blot on its clean bal- ance sheet. In conventional breakbulk throughput, the Hanseatic city’s port lost 7.6% of its volume, thus putting its total at just 1.9 million t. In the last two years, this figure has plummeted a full 22%. The drop cannot only be chalked up to an increasing level of containerisation of certain types of goods. Particularly in the heavylift and project cargo segment, Hamburg has found it increasingly diffi- cult to keep pace with its compatriot port Bremerhaven and other western North en ch

Sea ports. The Belgian port of Antwerp tt He alone registers 15 million t of throughput . -J H. a year in the breakbulk sector, a figure : that the port on the river Elbe can only to Pho dream of. The Wallmann terminal, one of five facilities in Hamburg that specialises in project cargo, is teaming up with other industry players to assess the advantages of acquiring a floating crane. A lucrative segment This realisation is a thorn in the side of In the white paper, the four organisa- It calls for improved coordination of con- Hamburg’s business community. «Value tions focus on infrastructure problems struction sites, taking better account of creation in the transhipment of heavylift that make life particularly difficult for oversized and heavylift transports with and oversized breakbulk cargo is many oversized and heavylift cargo forwarders regard to infrastructure improvements, a times greater than what is achievable in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. temporary lifting to 44 t of a weight limit with standard container transhipment. Throughout the German road net- beyond which the authorities have to be Employment knock-on effects are also work, key bridges are in a deteriorating consulted, and the development of plan- highest in conventional breakbulk tran- condition, and Hamburg is no exception. ning processes and the Vemags web plat- shipment, at 6.23 jobs per 1,000 t han- The result is the downgrading of the load- form for approval processes for oversized dled,» concludes a white paper aimed at carrying capacity of affected bridges. and heavylift transports.A round table improving conditions for oversized and Heavylift cargo transports reaching the including the bodies UVHH, HHM, heavylift cargo. It was published jointly port by road are forced to cope with sig- VSH, the chamber of commerce and with by the Hamburg chamber of commerce nificant detours – and in the worst cases representatives of Hamburg’s city govern- (Handelskammer Hamburg), the port may not even be able to reach their in- ment has already been established. of Hamburg’s business association (Un- tended destinations at all. ternehmensverband Hafen Hamburg «Both the logistics and transport Prevent firms from upping sticks UVHH), Port of Hamburg Marketing industry, as well as manufacturers of Whether these measures will be suffi- (Hafen Hamburg Marketing HHM) and plant components, transformers, presses, cient to stop the shift in the project cargo Hamburg’s road haulage and logistics as- turbines and construction equipment, business away from Hamburg is an open sociation (Verband Strassengüterverkehr frequently recommend the shipping of question, however. Johann P. Schryver, und Logistik Hamburg VSH). About oversized components via Antwerp, due the chairman of the association of Ham- 18,000 workers in the metropolitan re- to the poor accessibility of the port of burg freight forwarders (Verein Hambur- gion of Hamburg are dependent on this Hamburg and delays in getting the neces- segment. sary permits,» the paper continues. continued on page 74 74 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014

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ger Spediteure VHSp), has noticed a shift in this traffic towards western North Sea ports over the past 10–15 years. The container business was simply accorded a higher prior- ity in Hamburg, he says. Even the recently-approved port development plan to 2025 touches only marginally on the issue of oversized and heavylift cargo. One of Hamburg’s greatest weaknesses in the project cargo field, compared with Antwerp and Rotterdam, is the poor integration of inland barges into the project chain. And this in spite of the fact that along the river Elbe there are numerous capable heavylift shippers that depend on the port. However, as Heiko Loroff, the general director FRACHTFWO GROUP of a group of inland ports on the upper Elbe (Sächsische Your Swiss freight forwarder since 1955 Binnenhäfen Oberelbe SBO) points out, all of the players involved in the transport chain are holding back invest- ments in terminal superstructure, pending a resolution of a political debate over shipping on the river Elbe.

Inland waterways links are key Axel Mattern, Port of Hamburg Marketing’s chairman of the executive board, also believes that there is a great poten- tial for the inland waterways. «The current trend sees heavy pieces weighing 100 t or more reaching the port of Hamburg almost exclusively on inland barges,» according to Mattern. This makes it abundantly clear that well-functioning inland waterway links between Hamburg and both the inland ports Fracht USA: Own fleet of 12- and 16-axle depressed center rail cars,modern light-weight built on the river Elbe as well as the inland canal network are needed to ensure seamless transportation for heavylift and project cargo shipments. There is a need for action in the port too. The five termi- nals that are very active in the project cargo business – that is the Buss Hansa Terminal, C. Steinweg, Unikai, Rhenus Midgard and Wallmann & Co – offer mobile cranes in their facilities that can lift 208 t, and which can even handle in- dividual pieces weighing 300 t in tandem operations. Most multipurpose vessels calling at Hamburg have on-board cranes capable of handling 700 t – which is of no use when an inland barge and a maritime vessel are in port at differ- ent times. Thus Wallmann & Co, C. Steinweg and Buss are in discussions with HHM concerning a joint investment in a floating crane. One with a 700 t capacity would be ideal, according to Mattern, as it would make handling more flex- ible and prevent expensive down-time for inland barges.

Cooperation partners to the fore FRACHT AROUND THE WORLD In the meantime, the SBO has started a cooperative part- nership for heavylift and project cargo activities, as well Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile,China, as conventional heavylift and bulk cargo. The SBO’s part- Czech Republic, France,Germany,Hong Kong, Hungary, ner is not Hamburg, however, but the port of Brunsbüttel, Indonesia, Italy,Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Poland,Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, which is located in the Elbe delta. Brunsbüttel Ports, the Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, local port operator, is building a multipurpose terminal for United States of America. heavylift transhipment. Loroff and Frank Schnabel, the head of Brunsbüttel Ports, signed the cooperation agreement in Hamburg – with high-level representatives of the port of …and also on the web and why Hamburg also at the table. The signal behind their pres- ence is that, despite ongoing construction and infrastruc- don‘t you follow us on facebook ture problems affecting the project business, Hamburg’s and twitter … port industry wants to keep a foot in the door – if it means cooperating with partners, so be it. Björn Helmke/av Top brands in specialized logistics and transports

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International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 77

US railway company enters the project logistics stage A major new player

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), a US railway company with a long tradition, recently considerably extended its field of activity. The corporation has made significant investments in acquisitions and in the extension of its activities. The aim is to be able to play an important role in its chosen new business area of project cargo logistics.

The story of the large US railway com- panies began more than 160 years ago, when they supported the establishment of industry and business. By 1995, two large companies had developed indepen- dently, thanks to organic growth, mergers and acquisitions. In 1995, the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railway companies decided to join together as BNSF Railway. A total of about 390 companies of vari- ous types that originally existed in the sector during these 16 decades all finally es chiv became a part of what could be called the ar J IT

BNSF Railway family tree. In 2010, the : company was bought by Berkshire Hath- to Pho away, and today it is one of the largest A locomotive of BNSF Railway, the parent company of BNSF Logistics, which is currently establishing railway firms worldwide, in terms of both its strong presence in the global project cargo industry. its network and its financial basis. How is it that such a large company decides BNSF. Global project cargo activities and FCPA compliance certificates an ex- that it would additionally concentrate in take place in a market that requires sub- tensive global service network has been a major way on the global transportation stantial financial depth and wherewithal built up. BNSFL is convinced that it will of project cargo? from its largest providers, as investment become a market leader in this field. and working capital required to support History repeating itself projects can be significant. BNSF Logis- WWPC members’ conference in Phuket Again the development was based on a tics can provide this. large acquisition. Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, the parent company of Valuable acquisitions BNSF Railway, bought BNSF Logistics To this end the firm acquired Albacor in 2002. The move was designed to offer Shipping and EP-Team Logistics in 2012, logistics services where trains could not two companies which were very well- go. Full truck-load options on the road known in the project cargo business. as well as intermodal railway shipments The Albacor acquisition also entailed the offered value-added services – all in addi- transfer to BNSF Logistics of the former’s tion to traditional rail transport options. highly-coveted membership in the World- The annual members’ conference of the This combination differentiates BNSFL wide Project Consortium (WWPC). This Worldwide Project Consortium took place from its 3PL competitors. In addition, paved the way for BNSF Logistics to be in Phuket (Thailand) this year. BNSFL took BNSFL acquired a non-vessel operating recognised across the globe as a leading the opportunity to present its expanded common carrier (NVOCC) as well as a service provider today. field of activities to the expert audience. customs house broker in 2008, to estab- Various teams of experts serve the WWPC director Wolfgang Karau is pleased lish itself even more prominently in the fields of oil and gas, chemicals, power with the new member in the network, which global market. generation, mining, renewable energy, was founded in 1998, just as BNSFL itself is In 2011, the company took another civil engineering and the aviation and pleased to be part of the WWPC family. Both sides will benefit from each other’s activities, step forward. It recognised that there was aerospace sector.A global project cargo according to Karau. WWPC was founded a great potential for growth in the pro- team has been created, based in Houston to combine independent, first-class project ject cargo sector, an industry which sup- TX and made up of former employees cargo freight forwarders, shippers, and the ports the ongoing expansion of global from Albacor, EP-Team Logistics and like under one roof, so that each player can infrastructure. «This will continue to BNSFL. Satellite offices have been find the right partner. Membership is restri- develop, despite all possible obstacles, opened in many important regions. The cted to one enterprise per country, or per and is being driven largely by industries connections to WWPC were further de- region in larger countries. in emerging countries,» is the feeling at veloped and deepened. Thanks to safety 78 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special International Transport Journal 19-20 2014

Major order for Alexander Global Logistics

Mining equipment to Mongolia s ic st gi

The logistics service provider Alexander Global Logistics, a member of Cargo Lo l ba

Equipment Experts network in Germany, has completed the first transport Glo r de

of overdimensioned mining equipment from Houston TX (USA) to the an ex Al Mongolian capital Ulan Bator via Tianjin (China). : to Pho The first consignments of overdimen- in Mongolia’s capitol city for two years The management of the heavylift task was in sioned mining equipment which the now. AGL’s headquarters managed the co- the hands of Alexander Global Logistics. Bremen-based German logistics firm ordination of the transport of this cross- transported from Texas (USA) to Ulan trade job. The unit was first shipped out Mongolia, overland transport from Tian- Bator (Mongolia) weighed in at 46 t. This of Houston to Tianjin (China). There the jin to Ulan Bator and surveys in the port was the first shipment in a contract of cargo was loaded onto a lorry and trucked of loading and at the final destination. twelve units of the same kind, which will directly to Ulan Bator. AGL works as an independent logistics be moved consecutively, the corporation AGL was in charge of pre-carriage in service provider. The member of Cargo said recently. Alexander Global Logistics the USA, handling operations en route, Equipment Experts network (CEE) in (AGL) is well-suited to handling this task, the organisation of the seafreight leg, cus- Germany collaborates with a worldwide as it has been operating its own office toms formalities in the USA, China and network of partners. it

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