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TURKEY & HEAVYLIFT 

45·46 | 8 November 2013 

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International Transport Journal 45-46 2013 Turkey & Heavylift Special 

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Transport 

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ITJInternational 

Oil refinery boom boosts 

heavylift projects 

Turkey is keen to expand its oil refineries. Kita 

Logistics recently carried out several heavylift 

transport tasks for a newly-established facility 

near Izmit. 

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Specials 

Turkey & 

Heavylift Supplement 

Iran & Iraq 29 

3PL logistics study 

Shippers work morewith 

logisticsproviders, but sti l 

focusedonshortterm 18 

Détente in Iran? 

Europeanjudiciarylifts 

sanctionsagainst 

Iranianshippingline 31 

Branching out 

Cypriottransportcompany 

SalamisShippingentering 

oil and gas business 35 

5 Turkey, an attractive investment location 

In conversation Dogan Taskent 

7 CNC Freight Services 

Malaysia–Turkmenistan, one way 

09 Marmaray tunnel opens 

Seamless Europe–Asia link 

11 Kita Logistics 

Heavy goods for a refinery in Izmit 

13 SNS Project Team 

Spare parts for a chemical plant 

15 Jumbo 

A pipeline to Cyprus laid 

17 Port of Rijeka 

An important heavylift centre 

This Special is part of 

ITJ 45-46 / 2013 

Pipeline project from 

Anamur to Kyrenia/Girne 

An 80 km pipeline is being installed between 

Turkey and Cyprus. The cranes on board the 

«Fairplayer» are equipped with special winch 

systems, which are the key to success. 

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18 Heavylift at Sea 

Special heavylift vessel design 

19 Kargosistem 

In action for nasair 

19 Turkish Airlines 

Setting new targets 

19 Pegasus Cargo 

Extending its Turkish network 

20 Karl Gross 

To Asia by inland barge 

21 Volga-Dnepr 

Carrying satellites as airfreight 

22 Daher 

Managing Iter’s transport needs 

Dear readers, 

In the Southeast of Europe Turkey 

is a particularly interesting place for 

heavylift and project cargo undertakings. 

This is not only down to the 

advantages gained by the country 

straddling the Bosphorus thanks to its 

favourable geographical position as 

a bridge between worlds – or continents. 

The ambitious programmes that 

Istanbul established years ago focus 

on the comprehensive extension and 

renewal of the country’s infrastructure 

and energy sector. 

In order to reduce Turkey’s dependence 

on imported oil and gas, the 

atomic power stations Akkuyu and 

Sinop are being built at the cost of 

USD 20 billion each. The Tüpras-Izmit 

oil refinery is also being extended (see 

page 11). Various pipelines have also 

been initiated in the Mediterranean 

and Black seas. The recently-completed 

Marmaray tunnel is an outstanding 

infrastructure project (see page 9), and 

is but one of many transport projects 

that have been undertaken with verve 

90 years after the founding of the 

Republic of Turkey under the leadership 

of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The port 

of Derince in greater Istanbul, which is 

state-owned (as yet), plays a remarkable 

project cargo and heavylift transhipment 

role (see page 7). In the light 

of the country’s ambitious infrastructure 

plans, project cargo logisticians 

and heavylift specialists can look forward 

to many an interesting challenge 

under the crescent moon in future. 

17 Dornbasstransitservice 

Beer tanks across the Black Sea 

22 Masthead 

Cover: One of two bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul. 

Photo: thinkstock 

Christian Doepgen 

Editor-in-chief


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Turkey as a hub between east and west 

Opportunities for the logistics industry 

The recently-inaugurated Marmaray railway tunnel under the Bosphorus is only one symbol of just how keen Turkey is to fulfil its role as 

a gateway between east and west. During a symposium organised by DHL Freight Switzerland on the subject of Eastern Europe, Dogan 

Taskent, president of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey, explained the economic outlook on the Golden Horn. 

In economic terms, Turkey is better off 

today than many Southern European and 

Balkan countries. Reforms have massively 

changed the economy over the last ten 

years. «From a country with closed borders 

and an inflation rate of 90%–100%, 

Turkey has changed into a country with 

a thriving economy and an inflation rate 

of 10%,» Dogan Taskent explained in 

Zurich during a symposium organised by 

DHL Freight Switzerland on the subject 

of Eastern Europe. 

Various aspects have contributed to 

this development. Accession to the European 

Customs Union, for example, 

has brought foreign products into the 

country. This has increased competition 

and, in turn, resulted Turkish businesses 

increasing production. The country now 

occupies fifth place in the table of European 

car producers, making more cars 

than Italy. This trend is continuing apace. 

In the first half of 2013, Turkey managed 

to increase its car exports by 4.9%. 

Internationals come to Turkey 

The privatisation wave has also promoted 

new thinking in the economy. Turkish 

entrepreneurs have realised that firms 

have an intrinsic value and can be sold. 

The result is that they are not hiding 

their revenue from the fiscal authorities 

as much and are even declaring it instead. 

«Today we have transparent firms 

and plenty of mergers and acquisitions,» 

Taskent went on to say. Every year around 

300–400 Turkish firms are bought by foreign 

companies. It is also becoming more 

common to purchase firms abroad. Here, 

knowledge transfer is often the driving 

factor. «Just recently a Turkish construction 

company bought a Swiss firm, Alpinbau, 

so that they could improve their own 

tunnel construction techniques,» Taskent 

reported. 

As an investment location, Turkey has 

become increasingly attractive to foreign 

investors and multinational corporations 

since the financial crisis in the United 

States and Europe. The stable economy 

Dogan Taskent talking to Christoph Hinteregger, a Doppelmayr Seilbahnen executive, and 

DHL Freight CEO Nicolas Minde (from the left). 

and the strong prospects for growth have 

attracted them. Approximately 30,000 

international companies currently operate 

in the country, including well-known 

names such as Novartis, ABB and DHL. 

Indeed, 35 companies have even moved 

their corporate headquarters to Turkey. 

Many specialist staff with a Turkish background 

have returned to Turkey from 

overseas, including 500 top managers. 

Further prospects for growth 

The recent downturn in the Turkish economy, 

in particular its trade deficit, has not 

gone unnoticed (see ITJ 35-36/2013, page 

41). «Even if Turkey does not manage to 

achieve the high growth rate of 9%–10% 

that it has experienced in recent years in 

the near future, the country will nevertheless 

continue to grow,» is Taskent’s 

optimistic assessment. 

The pre-condition for such growth, 

however, is that foreign money continues 

to flow into the country. The USA 

and Europe finance approximately 75% 

of all foreign investment in Turkey, and 

the Gulf States around 20%–25%. «As 

long as the West continues to support our 

country financially, the USA and Europe 

will continue to keep Turkey on a tight 

leash. This helps us to successfully modernise 

and further develop the Turkish 

economy.» 

Taskent sees great opportunities in 

particular for the transportation sector 

in Turkey. In cooperation with local 

partners, foreign companies can continue 

to grow quickly at the Bosphorus. «The 

geographical location and the rather stable 

situation in the country compared to 

our neighbouring countries to the east 

encourages the further development of 

Turkey towards becoming a European 

production centre and a transportation 

hub for Europe, the Middle East, Africa 

and the CIS,» he said. 

Opportunities for logisticians 

Special niche markets are in high demand. 

The valuable goods segment is expected 

to achieve growth rates of 10% over the 

next few years, as the fact that about 60% 

of banks and currency exchange bureaux 

still deal with this transportation in-house 

is expected to change. Heavylift and project 

cargo logistics will also benefit from a 

USD 400 billion investment requirement 

in airports and sea ports, motorways and 

railway lines, as well as hydro-electric and 

coal-fired power stations, according to development 

minister Erdogan Bayraktar. 

Claudia Benetti/Christian Doepgen 

Photo: Claudia Benetti


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A heavylift consignment for a Turkmen offshore project. 

From Malaysia to Turkmenistan 

The Derince hub 

Turkmenistan is investing in its infrastructure and has earmarked USD 2 billion for 

oil production and petrochemicals up to 2016. CNC Freight Services once again 

transported heavylift loads for the development of the Diyarbakir project. 

Malaysia’s CNC Freight Services conveyed 

three building winches with two 

chartered Antonov AN-124s for the project 

in Turkmenistan in April this year. 

The development of offshore capacities 

for crude oil production and its processing 

is of top economic priority for the 

Central Asian country. 

In October CNC part-chartered a conventional 

geared ship to carry out three 

deliveries for the project. The loads consisted 

of a crane pedestal, diving equipment 

and pressure vessels, among others. 

2,110 t of freight was loaded. The heaviest 

single module weighed 95 t and was 

14.5 m long, 5.1 m high and 5.6 m wide. 

Photo: WWPC 

Different pre and post feeder transport 

modes were used, because of the sizes 

of individual modules. One part of the 

load was routed from Malaysia to Derince 

in greater Istanbul, and thence via 

the Volga-Don canal to the Caspian Sea. 

A sub-contractor managed the last section 

of the journey to Turkmenbashi. 

The pressure vessels were forwarded on 

a ro-ro vessel from Singapore to Derince, 

and thanks to shorter transit times they 

arrived at the same time as the chartered 

conventional vessel. 

Crane pedestal and pressure vessels 

The shipment was then transferred to 

a river barge and on-forwarded. DGT 

Logistics, a member of the project and 

heavylift network Worldwide Project 

Consortium WWPC (just as CNC 

Freight Services is), was in charge of the 

voyage to Turkmenistan, as well as for 

unloading the freight in Turkmenbashi 

and transport to the site 110 km from 

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New railway connecting two continents 

A new milestone in Istanbul 

The Marmaray rail tunnel under the Bosphorus, which joins the European and Asian 

parts of the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, is the first rail connection between the two 

continents. It was ceremonially dedicated in late October. 

According to Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, 

the director general of the International 

Union of Railways (UIC), the new railway 

connection in Istanbul shows the 

enormous progress that has been made 

in further developing rail transport as a 

global mode of transport. 

The Marmaray project has created a 

seamless rail axis which not only connects 

the two parts of Istanbul and Turkey, 

and thus the European and Asian 

continents, but also permits continuous 

rail traffic between Western Europe 

(London) and China (Beijing), for example. 

Because of its strategic location between 

Europe, Asia, the Middle and Far 

East, and its place at the start of the 

new so-called Silk Railway, Turkey is 

becoming increasingly important as an 

economic and logistics location. 

Project of the century 

Opening the tunnel on the 90th anniversary 

of the founding of the Turkish 

republic, prime minister Recep Tayyip 

Erdogan called it the project of the century. 

Erdogan stated during the ceremonial 

dedication that the Marmaray tunnel 

has realised a 150-year-old dream for 

Turkey. Interesting detail on the side is 

that Marmaray is a made-up word, from 

Marmara, the inland sea between the 

Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, and 

ray, the Turkish word for rail. 

The new tunnel, with a total length 

of 13.6 km, crosses the Bosphorus about 

56 m below sea level. The portion below 

the sea is 1.4 km long. A total of eleven 

tunnel elements were pre-fabricated and 

moved to the installation location. This 

part of the intercontinental trip only 

takes four minutes. The connection is 

expected to help mitigate gridlock in Istanbul, 

a metropolis with approximately 

14 million inhabitants, and to stimulate 

freight traffic by rail. 

The newly-opened structure includes 

a rail line through various neighbourhoods 

of Istanbul on both continents. 

Initially, the tunnel below the strait will 

only operate with a trolley line. Starting 

in 2015, the tunnel is to be used 

for long-distance rail traffic too, which 

would make it the first standard-gauge 

connection between Europe and Asia. 

Total project costs currently stand 

at approximately EUR 2.5 billion. After 

the cornerstone was laid in 2004, 

the dedication was first announced for 

2008, but was postponed repeatedly 

thereafter. 

Security at the top of the agenda 

The Marmaray project is an extremely 

demanding engineering feat. Earthquake-proof 

technologies and novel 

materials were used in the tunnel construction. 

The Turkish authorities have 

pointed out that the tunnel meets all of 

the latest safety requirements. State-ofthe-art 

underwater and tunnel drilling 

technology was used in the construction 

of this intercontinental facility. 

During its almost 9 years of construction 

the Marmaray project was 

Photo: Muhammed Enes Okullu 

One of the two parallel tunnels that make up the 

new Marmaray connection. 

used by technical and scientific institutes 

all over the world as a fine example 

of contemporary engineering skills. 

The tunnel was built by the Turkish 

Directorate General of Infrastructure 

Investments (AYGM), while the Turkish 

railway TCDD is responsible for 

operations. 

Grand opening ceremony 

The dedication ceremony organised by 

the government, the railway company, 

as well as organisations and firms participating 

in the Marmaray project. It was 

attended by many international guests 

of honour, including the Japanese prime 

minister Shinzo Abe and the Romanian 

prime minister Victor Ponta. In addition 

the Turkish government was also represented, 

by president Abdullah Gul and 

prime minister Erdogan. The Turkish 

transport minister Binali Yildirim, and 

Suleyman Karaman, the director general 

of the TCDD, and UIC director 

general Jean-Pierre Loubinoux all also 

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Transporting heavy plant parts for a Turkish refinery 

Tons of consignments forwarded 

Photo: Kita Logistics 

The Turkish enterprise Kita Logistics, which also includes specialist skills in the project 

cargo and heavylift transport tasks amongst its broad range of services, recently hauled 

a whole series of rather voluminous heavylift consignment to a refinery in Turkey. 

One of the huge consignments being loaded in a Turkish port by Kita Logistics. 

The Turkish enterprise Kita Logistics, 

that country’s member of the Global 

Project Logistics Network (GPLN, one of 

the largest and most widely-recognised 

non-exclusive project logistics networks 

specialising in international project 

movements and specialised heavylift operations), 

recently completed a demanding 

project logistics order, hauling various 

heavylift shipments that were key to the 

construction of a USD 3 billion refinery 

in Izmit, east of Istanbul. 

The logistics service provider ended 

up moving approximately 300,000 t of 

goods in various consignments from different 

ports of Turkey to Izmit, on the Sea 

of Marmara, for the refinery project. The 

project consisted of moving single pieces 

weighing up to 917 t per piece and with 

dimensions as long as 64 m and as wide 

as 11 m. Along with road transportation, 

a total of 90 consignments were moved 

by inland barge from Derince port to the 

jetty at the site concerned. It had not been 

possible to move those pieces by road, due 

to their outstanding size. 

In this project, Kita not only acted as a 

most important logistics provider for the 

task, but also utilised all of its infrastructure, 

equipment and logistics engineering 

skills to ensure the smooth transition of 

the goods concerned. Various sizes of 

ramps, and different beams, were constructed 

and used by the company. 

The main difficulty in this project was 

that all of the cargo arrived in Turkey in 

the relatively short time of four months, 

practically blocking some Turkish ports, 

such as Derince, for some time. The rather 

special requirements caused by this particularly 

complex situation prompted Kita 

Logistics to open an office of its own in 

the port of Derince, long before the actual 

project work started. Kita’s on-site experts 

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SNS International loading cooling units and other equipment for a chemical plant. 

Heavylift transport in very constricted space 

Parts for a chemical plant 

The Turkish logistics company SNS International Transport and Foreign Trade recently 

organised the transport of heavy goods for a production plant of a major French 

chemical company in Turkey. 

The heavy goods transported by the 

project cargo logistics team of the Turkish 

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Photo: SNS 

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The heaviest individual part transported 

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Laying a pipeline between Turkey and Cyprus 

Jumbo plunges into the deep 

The difficult working conditions when laying underwater pipelines make such an enterprise one of the most interesting project cargo 

undertakings. Jumbo, a Dutch heavylift and offshore specialist, is participating in the laying of a new connection in the Eastern 

Mediterranean. An integrated deep-water winch system and a specialised heavylift ship are two exceptional aspects of the project. 

Jumbo, a Dutch heavylift consignments 

specialist, is once more set to prove its 

skills from the end of this year when it 

is set to become involved in a project to 

install a new pipeline between Anamur 

(Turkey) and Kyrenia / Girne (Turkish 

Republic of Northern Cyprus). The contract 

was awarded by the Malaysian pipelaying 

contractor Sigur Ros. 

Under the contract Jumbo will deploy 

its Fairplayer heavylift vessel to transport 

and install 126 gravity anchor spreads in 

water depths of up to 1,400 m. All project 

management and engineering tasks will 

be carried out by Jumbo. 

The company will collect the materials 

needed from the Turkish port of Mersin 

Tasucu Seka, where they will be loaded 

on board the Fairplayer using the vessel’s 

own 900 t mast cranes, ready for transportation 

to the offshore location and for 

installation. The Fairplayer has a carrying 

capacity of 12,625 dwat and it’s on-board 

cranes can lift 1,800 t in tandem operations. 

The Fairplayer will sail south from 

Mersin, and will then install the 230 t 

gravity anchor, tether wire and sub-sea 

buoys, to be used to moor a pipeline with 

a 1.6 m diameter running 80 km from 

Turkey to Northern Cyprus. The pipeline 

will be suspended in spans of approximately 

500 m, floating at a depth of approximately 

250 m. 

The tether ropes, which are 116 mm in 

diameter, will be cut to varying lengths 

to match the corresponding water depths 

along the pipeline’s route. Towards the 

tops of the tether wires the sub-sea buoys, 

8 m long and 3 m in diameter and weighing 

approximately 17 t each, will be positioned 

to moor the pipeline. The anchor 

spreads will be lowered into position using 

both of the Fairplayer’s mast cranes. 

One of the cranes will oversee the deployment 

of the buoy and tensioning of the 

tether wire, whilst the other will lower the 

anchor. 

One of the specialities of this delicate 

and intricate operation is the fact that 

both of the cranes involved are equipped 

with an integrated deep-water winch system, 

which will allow the equipment to 

be installed without the need for a socalled 

wet handshake – that is to say the 

submarine transfer between two hooks. 

14 km of crane wire will be applied to 

the winch, which can carry out installations 

in water depths of up to 3,000 m. 

To successfully carry out the installation 

work it is additionally very important that 

the Fairplayer maintains its exact position 

Photo: Jumbo 

The «Fairplayer» has two cranes with 

integrated winch systems on board. 

whilst it is executing its work. To this end 

the Fairplayer’s on-board class 2 dynamic 

positioning system comes into play to ensure 

the required results. 

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Terex equipping cranes for the future for Mardas 

Photo: Jumbo 

Holding the precise geographic position during 

installation is crucial. 

TerexPortSolutions(TPS),amanufacturer 

of port equipment ranging from quay 

cranes through to integrated handling 

systems, has comprehensively revamped 

the mobile harbour cranes for the Turkish 

terminal operator Mardas Marmara 

Denizcilik Isletmeler, based near Istanbul 

(Turkey). 

Terex will transform six of Mardas’ 

Terex Gottwald Model 7 mobile harbour 

cranes, so that the terminal operator will 

be able to handle larger containerships 

in future. TPS is collaborating with the 

Turkish company Eksen Makina Servis 

Ticaret on this project. Together they 

have revamped the cranes’ working radii, 

centres of rotation as well as their operators’ 

lines of vision. The cranes’ cabins 

have been lifted by approximately 5 m 

and the units’ working radii extended 

from 51 to 54 m. 

TPS took charge of installing the parts 

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One of the 650 t inland barges destined to transport asphalt in Colombia being loaded. 

Heavylift consignment shipped through the port of Rijeka 

Croatian heavyweights 

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centre. The Liburnia Maritime Agency managed the organisation of a record shipment for 

the port of two inland barges. The on-board cranes from the P2-1400 series on Hansa 

Heavy Lift’s vessels proved to be particularly important in this context. 

The Liburnia Maritime Agency, a Croatian 

provider of services for all types of 

project cargo and shipping requirements, 

has claimed that it recently set a new record 

for the transhipment of a heavylift 

consignment through the Croatian port 

of Rijeka. The company was in charge of 

managing the shipment of two inland 

barges, specially-designed to transport 

asphalt, from Croatia to Colombia. 

Each unit managed a stately 650 t 

when put on the scales. Over and above 

Photo: Liburnia Maritime Agency 

this the two ships were not easy to handle, 

as each of them was 60 m long and 16 m 

wide. The loading of the units on to the 

two heavylift vessels HHL Richards Bay 

and HHL Fremantle, owned by Hamburgbased 

Hansa Heavy Lift, was nevertheless 

completed without any problems. 

Twice the lifting power 

Hansa Heavy Lift’s two ships are part of 

the company’s P2-1400 series of vessels 

and feature their own on-board cranes, 

each with a lifting capacity of 700 t. In 

tandem operations they can thus list as 

much as 1,400 t. The operation could thus 

be carried out without the aid of a mobile 

harbour crane. The two heavylift units 

can carry up to 19,450 dwat each. The 

massive consignments left for Colombia 

on time. 

Danko Crncevic, Liburnia Maritime 

Agency’s managing director, pointed out 

that «at the company we live for such 

consignments, and our customers notice 

our dedication. Our involvement in this 

undertaking from the beginning made 

sure that the loading was smooth and efficient.» 

Another similar contract will be 

carried out soon, with semi-submersible 

Dockwise ships in action. 

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www.dockwise.com 

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GPLN member Dornbasstransitservice delivers beer tanks to Ukraine 

The Ukrainian company Dornbasstransitservice, a member of 

the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN), was recently in 

charge of transporting beer tanks from the Ukrainian Black 

Sea port of Mariupol. The tanks, each of which was 25 m long, 

had a diameter of 6.2 m and weighed 32 t, were headed for 

Kharkiv, 450 km away. The cargo was lifted by two floating 

cranes working in tandem and deploying vertical parallel slings, 

as per the manufacturer’s requirements. Dornbasstransitservice 

had to dismantle a gate of the port of Mariupol and part of a 

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The «MPV 500 Heavy Lifter» is aimed at the industry’s intermediate market segment. 

Special ships from Hamburg 

No two ships are alike 

The transport of heavylift and project cargo consignments represents a great challenge 

when designing ships, simply because no shipment is like any other. The company 

HeavyLift at Sea, from Hamburg, therefore focuses on custom-tailored solutions. 

Hamburg can look back on a long-standing 

tradition in shipbuilding. However, 

positive reports from this sector in Germany 

have been rare for some time now, 

as shipbuilding continues to relocate to 

Asia. 

HeavyLift at Sea, a maritime engineering 

company which designs and plans 

heavylift shipping options as well as offshore 

projects, has been preparing itself 

for the past year to change this trend, at 

least with regard to designing ships. The 

founders Hendrik Gröne and Lars Rolner 

can both look back on many years of experience 

in the heavylift sector. Rolner is 

currently also the managing director of 

the heavylift specialist SAL, which is part 

of Japan’s K Line group. 

Gröne, HeavyLift at Sea’s managing director, 

explains the business concept as follows: 

«The number of shipbuilding jobs is 

decreasing in Germany. At the same time 

there is a wealth of engineering expertise 

in the area of design and technology for 

the challenges of building special ships 

and developing highly complex solutions, 

which is something many of the 

shipyards located in the Far East simply 

cannot offer.» 

Expertise on hand in Germany 

The company wants to pool this expertise 

and make it available to its customers, 

including shipping lines and builders 

of offshore facilities. The experienced 

team of the company, headquartered in 

Photo: HeavyLift@Sea 

the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, creates 

customised simulations and calculations 

that provide optimal ratios and movements 

for ships, cranes and the cargo on 

whatever task they are deployed. Engineers, 

technicians and designers propose 

heavylift tools such as overhead travelling 

cranes, and then hand the building supervision 

over to shipyards. In addition, 

the experts develop complete specialised 

ships to meet customers’ needs, as well as 

prototypes with distinctive designs. 

Custom-tailored ships 

Just recently the company drafted the 

design for its MPV 500 Heavy Lifter, a 

heavylift freighter for the intermediate 

market segment, thereby expanding its 

portfolio of especially flexible heavylift 

vessels. 

The design for the ship is based on the 

HLV 1600 Heavy Lifter, but is somewhat 

smaller and thereby aimed more at shipping 

lines that specialise in the transport 

of smaller consignments or are new entrants 

into the heavylift market. With its 

80 m loading area the ship is especially 

well-suited for the transportation of long 

consignments, such as blades for windmills. 

Two on-board cranes are planned for 

the ship. Working in tandem they will be 

capable of a lifting up to 500 t. The designs 

of all of the firm’s prototypes can be 

individually customised to meet clients’ 

requirements. 

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www.heavyliftatsea.de 

www.sal-heavylift.com


19 

Photo: Nasair 

Saudi Arabian LCC wants to boost freight business in Turkey 

Kargosistem represents nasair 

An increasing number of low cost carriers are turning their attention to the potential of 

express freight services. The Saudi Arabian company nasair, a subsidiary of the charter 

airline National Air Service, is now entering the Turkish market. 

Kargosistem believes that even the smallest Airbus offers the cargo industry a perspective. 

Nasair was founded in the Kingdom of 

Saudi Arabia in February 2007. Since 

then, the low-cost carrier (LCC) has 

transported more than 12 million passengers 

on around 110,000 flights. Its fleet, 

which is composed of 25 units, including 

Boeing B747s, Airbus A320s and Embraer 

190/195s, is one of the most modern in 

the Middle East, even before the delivery 

of 21 new aircraft it has on order. 

Shortly after nasair appointed the 

Dubai-based Emirati firm Heavyweight 

Air Express as its global representative for 

freight activities, the latter had selected 

the Turkish general sales and service 

agent Kargosistem as its sub-contractor 

for nasair services to and from Turkey. 

Progress in fits and starts 

Kargosistem’s chairman Demir Ozerman 

said that «we’re delighted to work 

together with our long-standing strategic 

partner Heavyweight in promoting this 

exciting young carrier.» The cooperation 

is still relatively modest. At the moment 

nasair provides two flights a week from 

Istanbul to Jeddah as well as a daily service 

to Riyadh, operated with A320s. Its 

37 sqm belly hold, which offers space for 

7 ULDs or pallets with an overall weight of 

16.6 t, is rather limited. However, it is more 

than sufficient for shipments such as textiles, 

leather products, small items of furniture 

and household articles, Ozerman 

explained. 

Jeddah and Riyadh are not the final 

destinations of the service from Istanbul. 

Nasair serves 88 destinations throughout 

the Middle East, with 950 flights a week 

from its twin hubs in Saudi Arabia. 

Ozermanannouncedthat«afterwehave 

firmly anchored the new nasair flights in 

the Turkish freight market, we’ll turn our 

attention to the transhipment possibilities 

in our client’s growing network. We have 

a particular interest in Amman (Jordan), 

Beirut (Lebanon) and Kuwait airports, in 

addition to those in Dubai and Abu Dhabi 

(United Arab Emirates).» 

Kargosistem, which was established in 

1996, has two offices in Istanbul and covers 

the entire Turkish market. The GSSA 

provides scheduled road feeder services to 

Adana and Gaziantep, besides representing 

the carriers Aerosurlog, Air Transat, 

AV Airlines, Coyne Airways, DHL Aviation, 

Kenya Airways and Olympic Air. 

Last May Kargosistem was named «GSSA 

of the year» (see ITJ Daily of 14 May 2013). 

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www.kargosistem.com 

www.flynas.com 

New targets for Turkish Airlines 

The two Turkish Airlines pilots who were 

kidnapped in Beirut (Lebanon) in August 

and held in captivity for two months are 

free again (see ITJ 37-38 / 2013, page 33). 

The airline may also be free of a planned 

close partnership with the German carrier 

Lufthansa that caught the public’s 

attention in November 2012. 

Lufthansa’s cargo boss, Karl Ulrich 

Garnadt, told the ITJ in Seattle WA 

(USA) in mid-October that his division 

was still analysing the alliance situation, 

however. It cannot be ruled out yet that 

a Turkish-German link will be established 

in the freight sector. 

Since the winter timetable took effect, 

Turkish Airlines has already benefited 

indirectly from one Lufthansa decision. 

The German airline did not prolong its 

contract, which began in 1996, with regional 

partner Augsburg Airways. The 

latter’s demise is in sight and it seems that 

90 of its 100 pilots are holding negotiations 

with the Turks. 

In the meantime, Turkish Airlines is 

focusing more closely on the Pakistani 

market. At the end of November the carrier’s 

passenger division is launching a 

new thrice-weekly service to Lahore, as 

well as stepping up its existing rotations 

to Karachi (from four a week to one a 

day) and to Islamabad (to four instead of 

three a week). 

Pakistan’s capital became the destination 

for a weekly full-freighter flight on 

29 October, whilst the Algerian capital 

Algiers received a twice-weekly full 

freighter service from Istanbul on the 

same date (up from one a week). 

www.turkishcargo.com.tr 

Pegasus adds to 

inner-Turkish network 

The Turkish LCC Pegasus Airlines, which 

has successfully marketed its cargo business 

since 2005, is adding four new domestic 

destinations from its base at Sabiha 

Gökçen airport, the smaller hub in 

Istanbul, over the next two months. 

From mid-December, the timetable 

will include Edremit on the Aegean coast 

and Sirnak, in eastern Anatolia, as well as 

Erzurum and Mardin, the new destinations 

that will be added in January. 

Pegasus already enlarged its international 

network in October. Its thriceweekly 

service to Domodedovo, the 

Russian capital Moscow’s largest airport, 

took the number of Pegasus destinations 

to 73 in 30 counties. 

www.pegasuscargo.com


Bremen forwarder with a strong foothold in Bavaria 

Heavy goods the 

easy way – by river 

The medium-sized forwarding and logistics company Karl Gross, founded 

in 1876, has adapted to the changing needs of its customers and markets 

throughout its history. Its branch office in a southern German river port is 

an outstanding example of the company’s flexibility. 

The transport of oversized cargo is the order of the day for the Hamburg-based 

project department of the freight forwarder Karl Gross. 

The division’s team, led by Thomas Burkhardt and Steffen Fulst, is 

constantly in search of routes and vehicles which are capable of handling 

the cargo and individual requirements of the company’s clients. 

«Every transport is individual and involves its own set of challenges,» 

says Fulst, the branch office manager and project cargo leader at Karl 

Gross in Hamburg. 

Each project cargo transport is unique 

There are various international market leaders in their fields among 

Karl Gross’ industrial machinery and equipment transport customers, 

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Many heavylift consignments are shipped to the world by inland 

waterway by Karl Gross’s Regensburg office. 

including firms from the food technology industry. The 

project cargo experts from Hamburg have seen the volume 

of all the parts that they deliver directly to construction 

sites in Asia and South America grow significantly 

over the past few years. 

«Our experience has shown that machines and plants 

used in the food processing industry are increasingly 

pushing the limits of what can be shipped on trucks 

in Germany with what we may call normal special permits,» 

Fulst elaborates. 

From the Danube to the Balkans and Turkey 

Much of the machinery that Karl Gross transports originates 

from southern Germany. The northern German 

freight forwarder has responded to the market situation 

by establishing a branch office in the inland port on the 

Danube in the Bavarian city of Regensburg. 

A further benefit of the new branch office is that it 

puts the company in close geographical proximity to 

its customers in southern Germany, making it possible 

for them to consult personally with customers on-site, 

«basically, at the drop of a hat» as one shrewd freight 

forwarder pointed out. 

The company’s Regensburg office is located in the 

Bayernhafen. «Our office site is right in the port, in sight 

of the Danube. For us, this is a particularly appropriate 

starting point from which to transport oversized cargo 

that is too big for the road via inland waterways, by 

barge, to various major German and European international 

sea ports,» says Fulst. «And of course, it is also well 

suited for cargo moving directly on inland waterways 

bound for western Asia.» 

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www.karlgross.de 

Photo: Karl Gross


21 

Astrium satellite flies with Volga-Dnepr 

Ilyushin sends a 

swarm into space 

A rocket with three research satellites belonging to the 

European space agency ESA, with which Turkey has been 

associated since July 2004 under a cooperation agreement, 

is lifting off from the Russian space centre Plesetsk 

this month. The cargo had to be flown in from southern 

Germany before its trip into space. 

Volga-Dnepr Airlines recently carried out a series of 

flights with space cargo on behalf of Astrium, the German 

division of Europe’s biggest space flight company. 

On 17 September the first Ilyushin IL-76 of the Russian 

airline took off from Munich airport headed for the 

north of the European part of the Russian Federation. 

At two-day intervals, the two other partial satellites 

belonging to the Swarm research satellite, as well as further 

test and installation equipment with a total weight 

of 63 t was sent on the trip. The trio of satellites is to be 

transported into space on a carrier rocket on 14 November 

from Plesetsk, about 800 km northeast of Moscow. 

Both during loading and unloading as well as during 

the flight with the IL-76TD-90VD – which included 

a five-day stopover in Arkhangelsk – the consignment 

required precise and careful handling in order to avoid 

any risk of damage. To this end, the heavylift specialist 

Volga-Dnepr used a special rail device. 

A robust and spacious Ilyushin aircraft was used to transport the sensitive 

and oversized space freight. 

ployed 14 Ilyushin and 38 Antonov AN-124-100 aircraft for Astrium 

since 2000, and these units have transported a total of 1,769 t of valuable 

cargo. 

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Photo: Volga-Dnepr 

To the centre of the Earth and the big bang 

They were well supported by representatives of Astrium, 

who monitored the condition of the expensive freight 

during the flight, during which a constant ambient temperature 

had to be observed. After arriving at the airfield 

of the Plesetsk cosmodrome the three satellites of the 

same design were successfully unloaded and brought to 

the assembly hall by truck, where the swarm was put 

together. 

The three identical satellites are to be started in polar 

orbit at a height of 490 km and carry out what will 

be the most precise measurement to date of the Earth’s 

magnetic field and its changes. The swarm mission will 

indirectly copy Jules Verne’s trip to the centre of the 

Earth. To gain new insight into the composition and 

processes inside the Earth, it is today no longer necessary 

to dig or drill. Remote satellite exploration from orbit is 

possible and precise today. 

Another flight with the IL-76TD-90VD recently also 

brought 15 t of Astrium cargo from Munich to Baltimore 

(USA). Volga-Dnepr’s 52nd flight for Astrium carried 

parts of the James Webb telescope, which will succeed 

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Heavylift transport for Iter project picks up speed 

Heavy dreams 

34 nations, including the EU, Russia, the USA, China and India, amongst others, have 

opted to build a nuclear fusion reactor for research purposes in Cadarache (France). 

The first delivery of major components is scheduled to arrive at the start of 2014. 

PCN represented in Turkey 

The Turkish company Ekin Heavy & 

Project Cargo Transportation, which is 

headquartered in Istanbul, recently became 

a member of the Project Cargo 

Network (PCN). 

Ekin works on special transport projects 

in the Zorlu Centre in Istanbul, at 

Doha and Pulkovo (St Petersburg) international 

airports, amongst its many other 

undertakings. 

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The multinational science project Iter is 

not only supported by many states, it will 

also be supplied by them. Instead of a financial 

contribution, the supporting parties 

are set to make 90% of their contributions 

in the form of equipment and materials 

delivered to the construction site. 

The responsibility of the global logistics 

manager of the French transport and logistics 

company Daher is correspondingly 

large. Daher, which has been active in the 

context of a framework agreement since 

Ekin, an international heavylift project specialist. 

Photo: Ekin 

February 2012, coordinates all transport, 

logistics and insurance services. The number 

of transports of oversized heavylift 

consignments from the member states 

around the world are now increasing. 

Multimodal command headquarters 

One million components will be delivered 

for Iter. For instance, in the Mediterranean 

port of Fos-sur-Mer and at the airport of 

Marignane, near Marseille, the first major 

modules, such as drainage tanks from 

the US and transformers from China, are 

already expected to arrive from the first 

quarter of 2014 onwards. From 2015, nine 

components of the reactor vacuum boiler 

and cooling coils will follow by vessel 

from Europe, Japan and South Korea. 

From 16–20 September Daher inaugurated 

its control centre in Marignane with 

a test convoy. In future the numerous 

transports around the world will be controlled 

centrally from this location. The 

services will also include interim storage 

facilities and customs formalities, amongst 

other things. The 104 km route from Fossur-Mer 

to Cadarache was prepared for 

heavylift transports from 2008 to 2011. 

Everything is now in place to make the 

dream of power from fusion come true. 

Christian Doepgen 

www.daher.com 

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