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19·20 | 9 May 2014 English edition BREAKBULK / HEAVYLIFT Breakbulk / Heavylift Special Multimodal multinational Strasbourg to Greenville for General Electric 9 Ranking shipping lines Class worth more than mass – Drewry 46 Prioritising project cargo BNSF Logistics seeks a leading market role 77 Yeah, We Can Do That. PROJECT&HEAVY LIFT LINER SERVICES Round-The-World Pearl StringService Ready, steady, stow! Stowingand securingcargo properly doesn’t just happen. Our experts team up withthe crewsonboardand theworkforce in theports to ensurethatyour goods aresafelyhandled and securelylashed. More about our expertiseand servicesat www.rickmers-linie.com The best waytomoveyour cargo International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 3 | 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. 39 Allseas Global Certified as a UN suPPlier 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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Box 55092 3008 EB Rotterdam Portnumber 2157 TELEPHONE +31 (0)10429 94 33 FAX +31 (0)10429 02 61 E-MAIL [email protected] WEB www.rhb.nl shorecranes up to 208 tons International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 5 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 Cover: A port crane in action. Photo: Thinkstock International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 7 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 No better transport option than Jurtransa! JURTRANSA Taikos 104, LT-93149 Klaipeda, Lithuania +370 46 363021 ph +370 46 363012 fax [email protected] www.jurtransa.com YOUR CARGOINSAFE HANDS Choose AdvanceInternational Transportand your cargo will be in safehands,managed with careand expertise. 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Choose AdvanceInternational and your cargo is in safehands We have long term hands on experienceinmanaging the multimodal logistics forall types of heavy and over- dimensional projectcargoes and capital equipment, as well as general shipping and freightforwarding,including reefer,dry bulk and liquid bulk shipments. www.advance-international.com [email protected] International Transport Journal 19-20 2014 Breakbulk / Heavylift Special 9 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 first of the new serieS will be released for to Au field testing in 2015 in the French town of rt Po 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.