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09 ·10 | 1March 2013 

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ENGLISH EDITION 

(also available in an identical 

German and French version) 

Specials 

Heavylift/ 

Breakbulk 

Supplement 

Asia /Middle 

East 29 

Double-digit growth 

Röhlig reports excellent 

figures in 2012 21 

Critical analysis 

DP World re-assessing 

position in terminals 30 

Dynamic network 

Interview with Turkish 

Airlines’ Halit Anlatan 37

Photo: UN 

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International Transport Journal 09-102013 Contents 

3 

Growth in Asia and the Middle East remain steady 

Cautiously optimistic 

Even though tra fic to and from Asia wi l remain the problem child ofthe global logistics 

industry, the local situation i stable, thanks also tointra-Asian trade. China remains the 

growth engine. In the Middle Eas the UAE, Qatar and Oman make upthe leading trio. 

TheWorld Bank hasupped itsprediction 

for growth in China, stating that itbelieves 

that the economy ofthe people’s 

republic wi l grow by 8.4% this year, as 

theorganisation said in Singapore. In the 

meantime, the volume of Chinese investment 

in Europe is greater than the flow 

o fundsinthe opposite direction.China 

has landed softly inthe cu rent downturn, 

even ifChinese shipping line such 

as Cosco and CSCL wi l remember 2012 

as adi ficult year with heavy lo ses. 

The prospects for India, in contrast, 

are weaker in2013, with growth under 

6% expected. The country saw the signs 

of the times and implemented appropriate 

changes in September 2012, ensuring 

that foreign capital can flow more easily 

into domestic infrastructure projects. 

Such measures are urgently required, 

taking into accoun the fac that in2012 

congestion in Indian ports lead to vessels 

being discharged up to 25 days after 

a rival. These facts do not change the 

state ofglobal port afairs, however, with 

Asian hubs’ leading role undiminished 

(see also page 36). 

In theMiddle Eastthe AgilityEmerging 

Markets Logistics Index gives good marks 

to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and 

Qatar. Their maritime exportsgrewbyup 

to 20% in2012, and inthe case ofOman 

this progre s has included destinations in 

the USA and inEurope. Oil and gas exports 

are not even part of these figures. 

In the airfreight segment the Middle 

East has done very we l recently, with 

stable overa l volumes. Individual player 

such asEtihad were pleased to report 

higher profits in 2012 than in 2011 (see 

also page 34). Exports from EU countries 

to Saudi Arabia grew by15% in 2012, 

spreading confidence that ahesitant upswing 

may slowly be catching on. 

ASIA / 

MIDDLE EAST 

30 DP World analysing its 

commitments indetail 

30 New China–Middle East service 

32 Swarovski selects Singapore 

for its regional hub in Asia 

34 Etihad improves profits 

34 Emirates to o fer second 

Filipino link from autumn 

35 More airfreight in Middle East 

36 Shanghai ahead of Singapore 

The industry has faith in trade in Asia. 

Logistics experts believe tha the region’s 

greatest potential now lies in intra-Asian 

and in Asian–African trade. But there 

are othe recipes being cooked up in the 

world’s recovery kitchens too. Indonesia, 

which registered 6.5% growth in 2012, 

the second-highest figure in Asia after 

China, had tolower its projection for exports 

tothethe USA from USD 205 to190 

bi lion,after aweakend end to theyear. It wi l 

continue togear its booming economy 

consistently to domestic demand. 

Christian Doepgen 

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BREAKBULK 

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Deutsche Ausgabe 

Heavylift/Breakbulk Supplement 

Asia/Middle East 29 

Logwin Solutions 22 

in Turkey 

Logwin Solutions Hizmetleri has terminated 

all ofits business activities in Turkey. 

The race of the giants 36 

Shanghai remains ahead of Singapore as the 

world’s No. 1container port. 

Another US-American 40 

affair to cherish 

American Airlines and US Airways have merged 

and are continuing operations under the name 

American Airlines. 

5 Editorial 

6 People &Companies/Job Market 

9 Legal &Insurance Matters 

9 E-training against damage 

11 Shipping &Ports 

11 Hamburg only just missed targets in 2012 

12 Full speed on the motorways ofthe seas 

Interview with DrGuido Grimaldi 

13 Fruit Logistica 2013 reports growth 

14 AE-9 service suspended (for ever) 

14 More vehicles in Bremen/Bremerhaven 

15 12% improvement for Malmö/Copenhagen 

15 EU supports short sea shipping transparence 

16 Aviation 

16 Blooming arrangements for Valentine’s Day 

17 Cargolux getting itself organised 

21 Forwarding &Logistics 

21 Röhlig reports double-digit growth 

21 Gebrüder Weiss expanding Georgia services 

22 Logwin Solutions closes Turkish branch 

22 Geis opens central hub in Slovakia 

23 DSV takes over Seatainers 

23 Stef increases sales in2012 

24 M&M expanding on the Indian Subcontinent 

24 TNT Express still in troubled waters 

26 Road Haulage/Intermodal 

26 The advantages of diversity –aninterview with 

Markus Heinen of the SPC in Bonn 

28 High-Tech Logistics/Intralogistics 

28 Jungheinrich mobilises Feldschlösschen 

37 Regional Focus 

37 Southeastern Europe &Turkey 

38 Southern Europe 

39 Africa 

40 North and Latin America 

41 Miscellaneous/Masthead 

Cover: AHamburg container terminal at night. 


42 ATime for Reflection/Advertisers’ Index

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Editorial 

5 

Dear readers, 

What symbolises anew dawn The 

snow melting, the spring air May be 

so, but they are part ofthe eternal 

cycle. Economic forecasts They’re 

about as certain asthe weather forecast! 

Let’s have alook atsome ofthe 

more adventurous ways oflooking into 

the future, which are based ondiffering 

and unorthodox approaches. 

The so-called mini-skirt index iswellknown. 

Itwas presented for the first 

time by Professor George Taylor of the 

Wharton business school in1926. The 

better the economy, the shorter the 

skirts. Econometric proof thereof was 

presented in2010. Alan Greenspan, a 

former chairman of the USA’s Federal 

Reserve, supplied the equivalent male 

scenario. Ifthe market for men’s underpants 

shrinks, then there’s acrisis 

looming –because men start their savings 

drives with their own underpants. 

Things are even more dramatic for the 

weakest members inthe food chain – 

people start saving on babies’ nappies 

in times of crisis. Its no consolation that 

more soothing ointments, in contrast, 

are then sold. 

My personal economic indicator is 

linked tothe Oscars. With nine films in 

contention for best picture, afilm of a 

musical evergreen, politics on celluloid, 

singing stars, Amour for the elderly, 

akid with atiger and ahard-drinking 

teddy bear we witnessed creativity as 

far asthe eye could see. There wasn’t 

an ingredient missing from this year’s 

cocktail. What prospects! 

You’ll find asimilar degree of 

diversity inthe latest edition of your 

ITJ, including aspecial supplement 

illustrating the incredibly broad range 

of project cargo and heavylift logistics 

solutions the industry has tooffer. I 

hope you enjoy the present issue –and 

the future too! 



Editor-in-chief

6 People &Companies International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Europe 

TexGunning to head TNT 

TNT Express has appointed TexGunning 

as its CEO from 1June. TNT also said that 

interim CEO Bernard Bot will remain on 

the executive board aschief financial officer, 

and that interim CFO Jeroen Seyger will 

continue in aseniorfinance role after1June. Tex Gunning 

Gunningwillquitasamemberofthe TNT 

Express supervisory board and also end his 

role on AkzoNobel’s board ofmanagement and executive 

committee on26April. Gunning previously worked 

for Vedior, arecruitment enterprise, and spent more than 

25 years with Unilever. After the collapse ofaproposed 

takeover of TNT byUPS on account ofcartel considerations, 

TNT said itwill now concentrate onmanaging its 

costs toreturn tofinancial stability (see also page 24). 

ACS deputy managing director 

Air Charter Service has promoted Justin Bowman from 

commercial director to deputy managing director, with 

immediate effect. Bowman will thus work more closely 

with Chris Leach, founder and chairman ofACS. Air 

CharterService,aglobalcompany with 17 officesworldwide, 

arranges more than 6,500 charter flights ayear. 

ABA’s new Dutch agent 

Antwerp Breakbulk Agencies has selected GvanB 

Logistics toact as its official booking agent inthe Netherlands.GvanB’s 

tasks encompassbookingsfor theshipping 

lines represented (including Onego Lines, Hartel, 

Nepa Shipping, amongst many others), as well as for 

the owners ofthe chartering department ofAntwerp 

Breakbulk Agencies. GvanB Logistics isaspecialist for 

the transport of project cargo, FCL and LCL consignments, 

as well as acustoms broker. 

Photo: AkzoNobel 

Camiel Eurlings 

Kim Pedersen 

New Czech mate to head EBU 

Lubomir Fojtu, thepresident of theCzech bargeowners 

association, has been elected as the new president ofthe 

European Barge Union (EBU) by its board of directors. 

Didier Leandri, representing the French barge association 

CAF, was elected as the EBU’s vice-president. The 

EBU will focus its efforts on ensuring that the EuropeanCommission’sNaiadesIIprogramme 

is continued, 

which isexpected tobedecided this year. 

Photo: Air France KLM 

Photo: Geodis Wilson 

KLMappointsleader 

Thesupervisory boardofKLM RoyalDutch 

Airlines has appointed Camiel Eurlings as 

the company’s new president and CEO 

with effect from 1 July. He will succeed 

Peter Hartman, who held the position from 

2007 and who is retiring at the end of 2013. 

Eurlings joined theKLM boardinJuly2011, 

togetherwithfellowstatutoryboard of director 

membersPieterElbersand Erik Varwijk. 

Eurlings,who is aformerDutch minister of 

transport, public works and water management 

and aformer European MP, will also 

join the board of Air France-KLM. 

Newforwardinghead 

Kim Pedersen has been appointed executive 

vice-president of Geodis Wilson and 

head of theglobalforwardingdivisionfrom 

1March. He will also become amember of 

thegroup’s executivemanagement. Pedersen 

joined Geodis Wilson (the former Wilson 

Logistics) in 1994, and was later appointed 

managing director in Denmark, and then 

regional vice-president for Scandinavia. In 

2009 he was chosen asdeputy CMO, and 

subsequently joined the board ofmanagement 

as global head of salesand marketing. 

The European Transport Organisation

International Transport Journal 09-102013 People &Companies 

7 

CEO for Green Cargo 

The Swedish company Green Cargo will 

be managed byJan Kilström as new CEO 

from May. He will replace interim CEO 

Mats Hanson, Green Cargo’s marketing 

director, who took over temporarily on 

15 February, when former CEO Mikael 

Stöhr left the company. Kilström has experience 

as amanaging director of logistics 

industry companies, having lead Bring 

Frigo from 2010 onand having worked in 

internationalrolesfor theScaniaGroup as 

well as for the firm Nils Hanssons Åkeri. 

Surprising departure at Maersk 

Jan Kilström 

There isnosuccessor in sight yet for Lucas Vos, the 

chief commercial officer of the Danish carrier Maersk 

Line, who isset to leave the corporation by 1May this 

year. Vos, who has been amember ofthe company’s 

management board since 2008 and who took over the 

role of CCO from Hanne B.Sørensen inJanuary 2012, 

is understood to be returning tothe Netherlands. CEO 

Søren Skou lauded Vos’s commitment and contribution 

to the company. 

Photo: Green Cargo 

ACG names Schächer asCEO 

ACGAir CargoGermany hasappointed Michael Schächer 

as its new CEO with immediate effect. Schächer held 

managerial positionsatDHL Global Forwarding to 2011 

and atPanalpina until 2005, and took charge inmid- 

February.ACG AirCargo Germany, acargo-onlyairline 

headquartered atFrankfurt Hahn airport, was founded 

in 2008 and provides global airfreight solutions. In 

March 2012 a49% stake inthe airline was acquired by 

Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group, which now wants to augment 

ACG’s fleet of aircraft. 

In-house promotions at Panalpina 

The Basel-based Swiss service provider Panalpina is fillingCentral 

Europeanmanagerialpositions with itsown 

staff members. On1February Olaf Scheibe was chosen 

to head marketing andsales.CordBehrwilltakeoverhis 

role asmanagerofthe Bremen andHanover offices. Frank 

Müller will become head of ocean freight on1March. 

Volker Werner will fill hispositionasheadofthe Frankfurt 

unit, with offices inFrankfurt, Kassel, Mannheim, 

Neu-Isenburg and atFrankfurt airport. Scheibe, Müller, 

Behr and Werner will all report to Anibal da Silva, the 

managing director for Central Europe. 

European Groupage 

Deep Sea Specialities 

Customs Clearance 

Saint-Louis-Strasse 31 

CH-4056 Basel 

TELEFON 061 385 13 13 

FAX 

061 385 13 65 

info@moortrans.ch 

www.moortrans.ch 

Warehousing 

Distribution 

Transit Storage

8 People &Companies International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Americas 

CCO for Globe Express 

GlobeExpress Services (GES)has said that 

Christopher Slotten joined the firm on 

1March as senior vice-president andCCO. 

Slotten will be in chargeofglobalsales and 

marketing and bebased in Charlotte NC. 

Slotten, whojoinedGES aftertwelveyears 

with UTi Worldwide, will report directly 

to presidentand CEO Michael C. Hughes. 

Acting director in North Carolina 

TheNorth Carolina StatePorts Authorityhas appointed 

Jeff Miles as acting executive director with immediate 

effect. Miles joined the authority as chief operating 

officer in2005 and in 2012 was promoted todeputy 

executivedirector in chargeofoperationsatthe portsof 

Morehead City and Wilmington, and the inland terminals 

in Charlotteand thePiedmontTriad at Greensboro. 

Earlier healso worked for Maersk and U.S. Lines. (nau) 

Former undersecretary for Iata 

Iata has appointed Jeffrey N.Shane as general counsel 

with effect from 2April. Hewill bebased at headquarters 

in Montreal. Shane served asthe undersecretary of 

transportation for policy atthe US department of transportation 

from 2003 to2008. His tenure included the 

signing ofalandmark EU–USopen skies agreement. 

Asia 

Serving Hong Kong in Europe 

On 1March Stephen Wong will take over 

as the Hong Kong trade development 

council’s regional director for Europe, 

based inFrankfurt, where all ofthe council’s 

activities for Europe, including Russia 

and Turkey, are concentrated. His main 

task will be to foster business relations 

between Hong Kong and Europe. He succeeds 

Lore Buscher, who is retiring at the 

Christopher Slotten 

Photo: Globe Express Services 

Stephen Wong 

endofFebruaryafter 39 yearswiththe body. Priortothis 

appointment, Wong served asregional director for the 

Middle East and Africa, and was previously incharge of 

thecouncil’s sevenoffices in North andSouth America. 

Networks 

Expanding the Gross+Fuchs group 

The Gross+Fuchs group has established four networks 

of independentfreightforwarderssince 2005.The Project 

Partners network for Venezuela and Brazil recently 

gained Transload International as an Argentinian partner 

and Navitrans Agency Services for Turkey. Project 

Partners is active in 62 countries and isrepresented by 

the approximately 150 branch offices of its members. 

Congratulations 

25 years for Ipsen 

Ulrich Gesolowitz started working in 

the airfreight enterprise called fastsped 

Speditionsgesellschaft mbH, which he 

founded, in February 1988. Today the 

company is called Ipsen Air Logistics, 

aname that resulted from asubsequent 

participation inthe expanding firm by 

the company Emil Ipsen GmbH. When 

the Ipsen corporation was restructured in 

Ulrich Gesolowitz 2007, Gesolowitz took charge ofIpsen 

Photo: Ipsen Logistics Logistics’ activities in all ofGermany – 

and remained innovative inhis new role. 

Under his aegis the Maghreb Express, anew road feeder 

service, was established in2011, providing arapid 

connection between European countries and North 

Africa, amongst many other projects. 

Photo: HKTDC 

Change ofaddress 

Antwerp Breakbulk Agencies 

Oude Leeuwenrui 32/21 

B-2000 Antwerp 

Telephone +32 32262600 

Fax +32 70 42 16 96 

E-mail info@breakbulk.be 

www.breakbulk.be 

Zürich ·Basel ·St. Gallen 

Top–Stellen für Spediteure&Logistiker unter Diskret 

www.fctkader.ch 

FISCHER Kaderselektion GmbH 

Dorfstrasse 13a ·Postfach 178 ·CH-8155 Niederhasli ZH 

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International Transport Journal 09-102013 Legal&Insurance Matters 

9 

Zurich CargoRisk Academy 

E-training against damage 

It is awell-known fact that itismore expensive torepair damage than toprevent it. Asthe result of an analysis of cases ofdamage 

in transportation, the insurance company Zurich came up with the idea oftraining customers’ employees to avoid damage as much 

as possible. Acustomer programme called rent anexpert isunder consideration for asecond phase for external sales. 

One learns from one’s mistakes, asthe 

oldsayinggoes. Theanalystsatthe insurance 

company Zurich can confirm from 

practical experience inlogistics that this 

doesn’t have to be so. «We have found 

deteriorating knowledge management 

in many companies,» reported Oliver 

Daniel López, asenior risk engineer at 

the Swiss insurance company Zurich. 

Many incidents of damage can be 

avoided if rough handling ofthe goods, 

often the result of ignorance, is avoided 

during transit, and ifthe employees involved 

are provided with the appropriate 

knowledge. 

E-training can also help ensure that the transport industry secures loads better. 

Access to the Zurich Academy 

Instead of complaining, the Zurich 

Academy founded it’s own e-learning 

programme for its customers –called the 

Zurich Cargo Risk Academy –in2010. 

With online training, employees from 

industries that ship goods and from 

transport companies have the opportunity 

to practice and master the correct 

procedures and handling methods in beginners’ 

and advanced courses. 

«Demand from customers and the experience 

with different levels of knowledge 

within acompany contributed to 

the formation of the academy,» recalled 

López, talking about the launch ofthe 

programme. The academy only charges 

for actual expenses incurred, thus covering 

its costs. Zurich customers naturally 

receive attractive offers. A total of 45 

companies are already active onthe platform 

or are inthe process ofmaking the 

necessary arrangements. 

The areas of hazardous materials, securing 

loads, packaging, cold chain logistics 

and operational safety have been 

recognised by Zurich as the core areas. 

In the area ofhazardous material, knowledge 

of theregulations like ADRIataand 

IMDG codes are prerequisites. Handling 

approachesfor allfourmodes of transport 

are explained and reinforced with model 

solutions. The topic of hazardous materials 

onthe roads and on the high seas has 

been in particularly high demand. However, 

the issues of asking questions ofthe 

knownconsignor andIncoterms 2010 are 

currently especially interesting. 

Content, processes and suggestions 

In the area ofsecuring loads, the participant 

builds aload unit and can thus test 

the effects of slipping, centrifugal force, 

and other basic conditions ofaload ina 

virtual environment –where it does no 

harm and no damage occurs. Suitable 

film animation guarantees that student’s 

motivationisalsoencouraged, along with 

the transfer of knowledge. 

The design ofthe online courses for 

the Zurich Cargo Risk Academy was coordinated 

with Professor Michael Doerk 

from the Lucerne University of Applied 

Sciences andArts, whonot only brings in 

his expertise as arisk manager, but also 

his eye for didactics. 

Technology and tools 

The system requirements are generally 

produced in a week. The programme 

can be transferred to any compatible 

e-platform or integrated into the existing 

training courses. The tool can be 

used modularly and is available inseveral 

languages. The current programme 

initially met with great interest from customers 

inEurope. Multinational groups 

have already made initial experiences 

and indicated that they would like to see 

the programme expand to Asia and the 

Americas. 

«The fact that customers have made 

courses from the academy into acomponent 

of their corporate governance is a 

great affirmation for us,» López said. In 

asecond step, thought is being given to 

external training from the academy via 

trained employees –rent anexpert. 

Looking toexpand 

As therange of topics hasbeenexpanded, 

so has the number of courses offered. To 

produce anew course, good planning includes 

about four weeks to compile an 

idea into a script and to coordinate it 

with quality management, risk engineering, 

learning didactics, external service 

providers, agents and translators. 


www.zurich.com 

www.zurichcargoriskacademy.com 

Photo: Zurich

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Shipping &Ports 

11 

Targetsnot attained –but only just 

Hamburg in2012 

Total throughput inthe German port ofHamburg stood at 

130.9 million tin2012, coming in1.2% below the figure 

for the previous year. 

The port ofHamburg’s total seaborne cargo throughput 

reached130.9 milliontin2012. Thehub’s general cargo 

throughput of 91.5 million twas just 1.2% below the 

previous year’s figure. Bulk cargo throughput of 39.4 

million twas amere 0.4% below the 2011 total. At8.9 

million teu the port’s container volumes were down by 

1.7%.The result ensured that Hamburg remains the 

second-largest container port in Europe and the 14thranked 

hub among container ports worldwide. 

Trade with Asia down 

The port boosted container traffic with every continent 

except Asia. Trade with Asia is traditionally very 

important for Hamburg. The 8.6% downturn inthis 

trade (to 4.7 million teu) had acorresponding impact 

on the port’s total container throughput. Claudia Roller, 

CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM), told 

the media that «less trafficwith Asia was primarily due 

to the difficult economic conditions in Europe, the 

lack of apeak season inthe Christmas trade in 2012 

as well as areduction in Chinese foreign trade.» Container 

throughput with China, including Hong Kong, is 

Hamburg’s most important trade. 

It was distinctly weaker in2012, 

recording 2.6 million teu (–12 %). 

Another core region for the port 

of Hamburg’s container traffic is 

trade to and from the Americas, 

which reported atotal of 1.1 million 

teu in2012. Trade with the 

USA achieved notable growth of 

28%, to 380,000 teu, placing it 

fourth among Hamburg’s main 

container trading partners. it 

www.hafen-hamburg.de 

In brief 

Hamburg remained the second-largest 

European container port in 2012. 

Safmarine MPV appoints agent. Safmarine MPV, which was established in 

January inAntwerp (Belgium) asanindependent business inDenmark’s A.P. 

Moller-Maersk Group, has appointed the Royal Burger Group asits full liner 

agent inBelgium and the Netherlands. 

www.safmarine.com 

Dunkirk warehouse authorised. Dunfrost, a40,000 cbm temperaturecontrolled 

warehouse inthe port of Dunkirk (France), received official approval 

from the Russian health authorities in January. This classification allows the 

port of Dunkirk touse the refrigerated facility to store and cross-dock all food 

products ofanimal origin (including meat, fish, dairy products, milk powder and 

animal feed) for shipment to St Petersburg (Russia). www.dunkerque-port.fr 

Photo: HHLA 

HHLA fulfils 2012 expectations 

The German port service provider Hamburger Hafen und 

Logistik AG(HHLA) generated provisional corporate revenues 

of around EUR 1.125billion in financial 2012, compared to 

EUR 1.217 billion in the previous year. 2012’s earnings before 

interest and tax (ebit) came toapproximately EUR 185 million 

(compared toEUR 207 million in 2011), despite the poor economic 

climate and delayed infrastructure measures. HHLA said 

that its 2012 result had thus fulfilled the updated forecast made 

in autumn 2012,which had foreseen revenues in the range of 

EUR 1.1 billion and anebit of EUR 170 to 190 million. HHLA will 

publish its final results for financial 2012, along with abusiness 

forecast for 2013,on27March. 

Holding its ground inadifficult market 

HHLA’scontainer throughput roseby1.4%to7.2 million teu 

last year (comparedto7.1 million teu in 2011). This growth was 

slightlyabove apredictionmadeinautumn,whichhad assumed 

that thevolumeofthroughput wouldcome in at roughlythe 

same level as in theprevious year.HHLA’shinterlandroad and 

railtransport firmsconveyed1.2 million teu last year,afigure 

that wasinlinewiththe forecast.Asexpected, companiesinthe 

HHLAgroup transportedthe majority of these goods,around 1 

million teu. Klaus-Dieter Peters,the chairmanofHHLA’sexecutive 

board, told themedia that «HHLAwas able to hold itsground 

well in thedifficult market environmentin2012. It earneda 

premium on itscapital costsand we were thus once again able 

to increasethe company’svaluein2012.» www.hhla.de 

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Grimaldi remains optimistic 

Full speed on motorways ofthe seas 

It may not bepossible for many shipping companies to look ahead with optimism tothe 

coming months –but the Grimaldi group isanexception. This old-established familyowned 

company has defied difficult market conditions and remained profitable for the 

last few years (see ITJ 43-44/2012, pages 23-24). The group even plans to improve its 

performance this year. Antje Hanna Veregge spoke to commercial director Dr Guido 

Grimaldi at Fruit Logistica in Berlin. 

«We’re especially optimistic about the 

opportunities for short sea traffic in Europe, 

where we want to further expand 

ourmarketshare,» said Dr GuidoGrimaldi, 

the corporate commercial director in 

chargeoftruck andtrailer activities of the 

Grimaldi Group. 

The group is apioneer in this field in 

the context of the motorways of the seas 

project initiated by the European Commission. 

These motorways are part of 

the Trans-European Transport Network 

(Ten T) and are supposed to lead to a 

shift offreight from Europe’s congested 

roadstothe seas.Bysubsidising thefloating 

infrastructure on European waters 

the EUisaiming to promote structural 

change inits member states. 

Connecting the Med and north Europe 

This will enable the EUtohave amore 

sustainable and more efficient transport 

industry rather than banking on pure 

road transport. The background isclear. 

According tothe EU Commission, congested 

transport infrastructure costs its 

Dr Guido Grimaldi, corporate commercial 

director for Grimaldi’s truck and trailer activities. 

member states approximately 1% of their 

combined total GDP annually. The future 

of intra-European freight transport 

is in intermodal transport, says the com- 

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Fruit Logistica 2013 

grew strongly 

Photo: Grimaldi 

The «Eurocargo Catania» has been plying its trade between the Italian ports of Catania, Brindisi and 

Ravenna since November. 

mission. The prospects for the Grimaldi 

groupare thus good. Thegroup’s subsidiaries 

Finnlines andMinoanLines arepart 

of alarge network that connects Mediterranean 

countries with northern Europe 

as well as with countries on the Baltic, 

with regular departures ofro-ro/ro-pax 

ships orpure ro-ro freighters. 

From the roads to the seas 

«Our short sea shipping market share in 

Greece is alreadyaround70%,» Grimaldi 

said, «but weaim to continue to increase 

our market share in Europe. Under the 

current market conditions this will only 

be possible if we manage to change the 

modal split in European countries.» 

Countries such as Spain and Italy especially 

continue to rely mainly onroad 

transport for their freight operations. 

Grimaldi sees great potential for freight 

transport bythe motorways of the seas 

in the Baltic region too. Rostock and 

Travemünde (both Germany) are important 

hubs forthe Finnishmarket, whileSt 

Petersburg (Russia) and Gdynia (Poland) 

are important hubs for Russia and Eastern 

Europe. 

Grimaldi provided theexample ofthe 

transportation of goods from Barcelona 

to Helsinki by ro-roships,withtranshipment 

in Rostock orTravemünde, to illustrate 

that it would cost only half of 

the cost ofroad transport –despite the 

fact that most of the transport would 

still be carried out by road. This is 

where the Grimaldi Group aims to act, 

to achieve anintermodal shift here by 

offering shorter transit times and regular 

departures. The Barcelona–Helsinki 

route takes amere 52hours –24hours 

for Barcelona–Travemünde and another 

28 hours for Travemünde–Helsinki. 

Using Travemünde orRostock as ahub, 

Grimaldi also wantstoattract cargofrom 

Turkey, Bulgaria and Poland, bringing 

the freight toFinland via the German 

centres. This connection is important to 

improve business, Grimaldi said, which 

is an important goal for 2013. 

Equipped for success 

To achieve this the Grimaldi group concentrates 

onlarge ships. «In this way we 

benefit from economies ofscale, wecan 

work more economically and therefore 

offer better rates,» Grimaldi explained. 

Last November the group introduced 

the Eurocargo Catania and the Eurocargo 

Brindisi, two new ro-ro vessels with capacities 

of around 240 semi-trailers each, 

on the route from Catania (Sicily) to 

Brindisi (Apulia) as well as to Ravenna 

(northern Italy). 

GuidoGrimaldiisoptimistic that this 

year will be agood one for the company 

–despite the difficult economic conditions. 

«The crisis has fortunately not affectedustoo 

much so far. I’mcompletely 

convinced that with our larger ships, innovativeideas,but 

aboveall thanks to our 

outstandingteam, we’rewellequippedto 

operate successfully this year.» 

Antje Hanna Veregge 

www.grimaldi.napoli.it 

The Grimaldi group infigures 

The Grimaldi Group achieved aturnover of 

around EUR 3billion in 2012. Minoan Lines 

was responsible for about EUR 250 million 

and Finnlines for EUR 650 million thereof, 

whilst Grimaldi Lines posted sales of about 

EUR 2.1 billion. The group operates 120 

ships, all of which itowns, and employs approximately 

11,000 people worldwide. 

The Fruit Logistica trade fair ended on 

apositive note inBerlin on 10 February. 

This year thefruit trade summit attracted 

more than 58,000 trade visitors from 130 

countries, who learnt a lot about new 

products and services inthe fresh produce 

value chain, aswell asgetting an 

overview of the global market. In 2012 

the fair attracted 56,000 visitors from 

139 countries. Around 80% of the visitors 

again came from outside Germany 

this year,oncemoreunderliningthe fair’s 

global reach. The strongest participation 

in the exhibition yet saw 2,543 exhibitors 

–from the entire length of the value 

chain forthe supply of freshfruit andvegetables 

–from 78countries present their 

services. 90%ofthe exhibitorscamefrom 

outside Germany. 

Exhibitors and trade visitors alike 

praised the excellent contacts they were 

able to establish with wholesalers and 

retailers, fruit and vegetable growers as 

well as importers and exporters. Key representatives 

from the world of agricultural 

policy also came to Berlin, including 

twelve agriculture ministers. Around 750 

media representatives from 37countries 

reported on the exhibition. Peru was the 

official partner country of Fruit Logistica 

2013. The Agility Emerging Markets 

Index 2013 reported aslight decrease in 

the perishables trade between Peru and 

the USA, but ahigh volume ofmaritime 

trade between the two countries means 

it is still one of the most important partnerships 

in Latin America for the United 

States of America. 

Dr ChristianGöke, thechief operating 

officer ofthe fair organiser Messe Berlin, 

pointed out that he and his team were 

pleased with the way the event had gone, 

emphasisingthatthere probably is notanother 

trade fair in the world with such a 

clearlyleading role in itsindustry as Fruit 

Logistica. This year’s Fruit Logistica innovation 

award went to acity farming 

concept developed by the Dutch Staay 

Food Group. Customised greenhouses 

with specialised LED lighting enable 

seedstobecultivatedintoyoung plants in 

just 35 days, independently oftheir natural 

season. Optimumgrowing conditions 

make pesticides unnecessary, thus offering 

asustainable way toproduce healthy 

food. 

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14 Shipping &Ports International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Loss of confidence in Asia–Europetrade 

AE-9 string suspended again 

Maersk has again suspended 

its AE-9 service, 

less than two months after 

it was reinstated. The move 

has been interpreted by 

analysts as displaying a 

lack of optimism concerning 

demand onthe key 

Asia–Europe trade route. 

Photo: ITJ archives 

Denmark’smajorshipping 

line Maersk hassuspended 

its AE-9 service between 

Asia and Europe (for 

ever). Thus Maersk Line 

hasreduced itsservicesbetween Asia and 

Europe to five sailings aweek again. The 

corporation obviously expects afurther 

weakening indemand for tonnage. 

The last unit tosail inMaersk’s AE-9 service left the port of 

Ningbo on 4February. 

The world’s largest shipper has yet to 

comment onthe fate of the seven vessels 

deployed in the loop, as well as on when 

it expects toresume its AE-9 service. 

The decision topull the plug onthe loop 

is likely to put increasing pressure onthe 

company’s ambitious aspirations, promoted 

underthe DailyMaersklabel,with 

just five of the seven services remaining 

operationalsince it waslaunchedin2011. 

it 

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More vehicles handled 

in Bremen/Bremerhaven 

Container throughput in the ports of 

Bremen increased by3.4%to6.1 million 

teu in 2012. An air of disappointment 

nevertheless prevailed inBremen during 

theannouncementofthe year’s figures, as 

in December management had aimed to 

attain growth to afigure of6.3 million 

teu. The number ofvehicles handled increased 

by6.3% tojust under 2.2 million. 

Total throughput in the ports of Bremen 

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The port operator Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP), which manages 

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Conveyingflowers forValentine’s Day 

Blooming arrangements 

Several European airlines were not the only ones tobenefit from apeak inbusiness for 

14 February. This year aMiddle Eastern carrier –Saudia Cargo –played arole too. 

Much can besaid with flowers – regardless 

of whetherthe blooms arebound into 

awreathtomarkabereavement,orsimply 

made into abouquet for abeloved one. 

14 February this year provided various 

airlines with many opportunities to do 

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some flourishing business in the «green» 

sector. The most important airports of 

departure for the freight divisions of Europe’s 

three major airlines were located 

in SouthAmerica andAfrica. AirFrance- 

KLM-Martinair reported that for many 

yearsithad been supportedbyits passenger 

flights’ robust frequencies, aswell as 

by an extensive network and alarge fullfreighter 

fleet. The extra capacity gained 

by switching from MD-11F to B747F 

equipment enabled the carrier tofly 750 

tofroses and carnations from Quito (Ecuador), 

Bogotá (Colombia) and Nairobi 

(Kenya)toParis(France)and Amsterdam 

(Netherlands). The British/Spanish airline 

IAG spoke of nearly 800t of perishable 

freight that originated inthe three 

countries mentioned, as well as in Costa 

Rica and Guatemala. The air transport 

provider is also lookingforward to similar 

floral events that are scheduled to take 

place later this year. They are Mothers’ 

Day inthe United Kingdom (13March), 

the patron saints’ days in the Spanish cities 

ofBarcelona (23April) and Zaragoza 

Flowers, like asmile, can say more than words – 

and their transport isalucrative business. 

(12October) and finally All Saints’ Day 

(1 November). 

The German airline Lufthansa Cargo 

transported 1,000t ofroses, and Saudia 

Cargo deployed four extra freighters to 

convey the same huge amount offlowers 

from Nairobi toAmsterdam alone. Ken 

Mbogo, Saudia Cargo’s regional sales director, 

described his company’s commitment 

by saying that «Kenya is thenumber 

one airfreight export country in Africa. 

We’re very well established there.» 

www.saudiacargo.com 

Photo: Lufthansa Cargo

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Aviation 

17 

Cargolux gettingitselforganised 

Flying through less turbulence 

Cargolux provided Payerne with apremiere 

with the flying visit of its flagship B747. A 

fresh sense of calm also seems to have set 

in at the freight airline, which had recently 

experienced some serious headwinds. 

In brief 

Welcome. Russian airlines will be allowed to 

employ 200 foreign pilots and pilot trainers 

in the coming five years. Moscow passed a 

regulation in order toavoid alooming staff 

shortage. 

www.mintrans.ru 

Electronic. Champ Cargosystems expects 

demand for electronic solutions togrow in 

2013. The Luxembourg-based IT solutions 

provider’s products already monitor half ofall 

C2K consignments handled in the airfreight 

supply chain today. www.champ.aero 

Cooled. Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo 

recently launched anew product, called variation 

pharma control 15-25°C, in its so-called 

variation portfolio. The Franco-Dutch carrier 

said that this is one of the first solutions in 

this temperature range. 

www.afklcargo.com 

Photo: Solar Impulse 

Abig visitor tothe usually quiet aerodrome in 

Switzerland. 

In theafternoon of 20 February aBoeing 

B747-400F landed atthe aerodrome in 

the central Swiss town ofPayerne for the 

first time. The length and width ofthe 

runway of the Swiss army base make it 

possible forthe largefull-freightertotake 

off and land. But the other specifications 

of the aerodrome –which is also making 

the headlines asthe start and end 

point for test flights ofthe sustainablyoperated 

aircraft Solar Impulse (see also 

ITJ 31-34/2010, page 23) –donot meet 

the required standards to handle aB747- 

400F. Thanks tocomplex planning and 

calculations it was nevertheless possible 

to implement theproject, andthe following 

day the jumbo jet took off again for 

US west coast with its rather unusual cargo 

on board. The solar powered aircraft 

Solar Impulse is set tofly across North 

America this summer. 

The shareholders ofthe full-freighter 

operator Cargolux have agreed on amoderate 

growth course inthe meantime. A 

strategic plan for 2013–2017, adopted by 

the board at the beginning ofFebruary, 

not only secures jobs in the company 

that recently looked hugely doubtful, 

but also increases Cargolux’s capital by 

USD 275 million (instead ofUSD 700 

million asoriginally foreseen) and confirmsthe 

previous decision in favourofa 

B747 freighterfleet (instead of amix with 

B777Fs). The airline, which was always 

profitable until 2010, aims return to the 

black in2014. 

ah 

www.cargolux.com; www.lw.admin.ch 

Illegal. The French customs authorities would 

appear to have uncovered illegal gold imports. 

AFrench newspaper reported that up to 1,800 

bars of gold worth about EUR 72million have 

left Tunisia in small consignments since the fall 

of Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali’s regime inJanuary 

2011 and arrived in France at the airports in 

Nice, Marseilles and Paris (CDG and Orly). 

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Robbed. An armed robbery involving a 

Helvetic Airways Fokker 100 took place at 

Brussels airport (Belgium) inmid-February. 

The aircraft had been wet leased toSwiss and 

was due to fly toZurich. Four armed men held 

up asecurity van near the passenger plane 

just before takeoff and targeted the valuables 

being transported. Agency reports said that 

the goods concerned were diamonds from 

Antwerp worth approximately EUR 37 million. 

www.helvetic.com 

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Logwin serves children 

in Syrian refugee camp 

About 50,000 civil war refugees, about 

half of whom are children, live in the 

Za’atari refugee camp on the Syrian/ 

Jordanian border. In January Save the 

Children, achildren’srightsorganisation, 

distributed 3,900 pairs of shoes and 180 

footballs here, which had been donated 

by asports goods manufacturer and were 

transported byLogwin. 

The logistics services provider, which 

is basedinGrevenmacher(Luxembourg), 

took delivery of the donation inkind 

from the sports goods manufacturer at 

its location atthe airport inFrankfurt 

(Germany). Atotal of 15 Euro pallets 

with shoes and footballs were then sent 

on their 3,500 km journey. 

On the first half ofthe voyage the 

cargowas brought to Maastricht(Netherlands). 

From there, Logwin transported 

the consignments onward byair to the 

Jordanian capital Amman. 

«It’s nice that wecan help children 

in need with our effort, and give them 

alittle bit of joy,» said Hauke Müller, 

a member of the executive committee 

of Logwin and incharge ofair and sea 

transport operations from and to the 

regions ofEurope, the Middle East, the 

Americas and Africa. 

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From the airport in Amman, Save the 

Children took chargeofthe furthertransportation 

of the goods to the Za’atari 

camp, and also oversaw distribution to 

the children there. «Many children and 

their families fled their homes because 

their lives were in danger. They left everything 

behind. All they had was the 

clothes they were wearing,» explained 

Kathrin Wieland, managing director of 

Save the Children Germany. «The donation 

in kind combines useful with necessary 

items, because many children were 

forced to walk barefoot intemperatures 

of zero degrees. We’re delighted bythis 

cooperative effort and its successful implementation.» 

ah 

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18 Aviation International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

LufthansaCargo in auniquepartnership 

Providing faster aid together 

22 German aid organisations that are united together in the national relief coalition 

Aktion Deutschland Hilft have signed acontract toteam upwith Lufthansa Cargo 

as anew logistics partner. 

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ery ofrelief supplies when ahumanitariancrisisislooming. 

Acorresponding cooperation 

agreement was recently signed 

at Frankfurt airport. Lufthansa Cargo’s 

chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt 

The German full-freighter operator Lufthansa 

Cargo is entering into close cooperation 

with the Aktion Deutschland 

Hilft coalition, an alliance of German aid 

organisations, to enable the faster delivtold 

the media that «time isthe crucial 

factor in getting help to victims ofdisasters. 

The rapid transportation of relief 

aid istherefore essential. Bycooperating 

with Aktion Deutschland Hilft we can 

ensure that assistance arrives faster and 

more efficiently inthose places where it 

is most urgently needed.» 

Photo: Andreas Haug 

An MD-11F bearing the logo of the aid alliance 

will serve as its flying ambassador. 

Supply goods when the region cannot 

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some relief supplies can sometimes 

be obtained regionally. But air transport 

frequently has akey role to play when 

medical supplies, water treatment plants 

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21 

Röhlig in financial 2012 

Double-digit growth 

The Bremen-based German logistics service provider Röhlig has produced good operative results for the 2012 business year. 

The company generated a14% increase inits gross return last year, but its operating result declined slightly. The firm 

expects moderate growth inthe current year. 

The owner-operated logistics company 

Röhlig has presented its provisional business 

figures for 2012. The provider of sea 

and airfreight services generated agross 

return of EUR110 millioninthe consolidatedcompanies 

andofEUR 161million 

in the group. 

With an increase of 14% the company 

achieved double-digit growth for the 

third year running. «We’re pleased with 

this dynamic development, especially 

as global container transport only grew 

by 4% in 2012 and the airfreight market 

actually experienced decline,» owner 

Thomas W. Herwig concluded. 

Independent of regional fluctuations 

Röhlig was able toincrease its business 

volume in almost all regions. Asinthe 

previous year, the greatest growth took 

place inthe Americas, partly due to acquisitions 

in both thenorthernand south 

ern halves ofthe continent. There was a 

shiftinthe companyshares towards non- 

Europeanregions, both in theconsolidated 

companies and in the group. 

Quentin Lacoste, CEO for Europe, 

the Middle East and India, said that «the 

equaldistribution of ouractivitiesaround 

the globe forms part ofour strategy for 

2018 and gives us greater independence 

from regional fluctuations.Itallowsusto 

benefit from themomentuminemerging 

nations and in industrialised countries.» 

2012 –year ofconsolidation 

In 2012 the company’s operating result 

(ebit) remained slightly below thevalue of 

the preceding year, atEUR 14.3 million, 

due inpart tothe recession inEurope 

and inpart toconsolidation effects. For 

instance in 2012 Röhlig completedthe integration 

of holdings purchased in South 

American and the USA in2011. 

In addition, the company invested in 

the project logistics and supply chain 

management business fields. «Short-term 

Röhlig generated its greatest growth rate inthe Americas in2012, partially onaccount ofacquisitions 

in 2011 in both North and South America. 

profit maximisation is not our goal. We 

want to create asecure future and high 

yields for Röhlig in order to maintain 

ourfinancial independence,» CFOHans- 

Ludger Körner explained. 

Optimistic about 2013 

The Röhlig management is optimistic 

about the current 2013 business year, 

stating that «we expect good business in 

the USA, Brazil and anumber ofAsian 

countries.» 

«Increasing demand for raw materials 

which accompanies growth across the 

globe should also stimulate the economy 

in SouthAfricaand Australia, both countries 

whichare importanttoour business. 

So we’re also anticipating good growth 

opportunities outside Europe in2013,» 

Herwig concluded. 

www.rohlig.com 

Gebrüder Weiss expanding services inGeorgia 

The transport and logistics company 

Gebrüder Weiss recently commenced 

services inanew direct groupage freight 

connection from Passau (Germany) to 

the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The regular 

transit time iseight days and departures 

take place weekly onThursdays. There 

will be an additional departure onTuesday, 

depending on shipment volumes. 

The company said that it could thus offer 

its customers direct overland connectionstoemergingmarkets 

in Centraland 

Eastern Asia. GWiscurrently building a 

modern logistics centre inTbilisi, with 

approximately 10,000 sqm oftranshipment 

and logistics space. It is expected to 

open in mid-2013. The facility will serve 

as acentral hub for the Caucasus region. 

The 95,000 sqm plot iseasily accessible 

from the airport and the motorway and 

can also beconnected to the Georgian 

railwaynetwork, whichthe government is 

currently expanding. GW laid the foundation 

for its activities in the Caucasus 

region in March last year, when itestablished 

ajoint venture with Tegeta Motors 

and founded the company Gebrüder 

Weiss LLC. www.gw-world.com 

Photo: Röhlig

22 Forwarding &Logistics International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Logwin SolutionsinTurkey 

Operations terminated 

Logwin Solutions Hizmetleri, the Turkish 

subsidiary of the Grevenmacher-based 

Luxembourgian company Logwin, terminated 

all of its business activities with 

effect from 7February. 

Before the company was wound down 

local employees had discovered massive 

misappropriation amounting to more 

than EUR 1.2 million (as the investigations 

stood at the time ofthe ITJ’s editorial 

deadline). The Logwin group had 

only taken over all of the shares in Logwin’s 

Turkish national subsidiary at the 

endof2010. Logwin hadheld75%of the 

stake before that, 20% had been owned 

by the previous managing director Ercan 

Ataman and5%bythe Turkishenterprise 

Kita Logistics. In Turkey, Logwin Solutions 

was represented through its locations 

inIzmir and Istanbul. More than 

50 employees had worked for customers 

operating inthe automotive, electronics, 

high-tech, textiles and fashion industries. 

The so-called Solutions business unit in 

Geis opens new central hub in Slovakia 

The German logistics company Geis, 

which isheadquartered inBad Neustadt 

near Nuremberg, is strengtheningits presence 

in Central Europe. To this end it 

inaugurated anew hub inZvolen, in the 

heart ofSlovakia, recently. The centrallylocated 

facility houses a cross-docking 

hub for general cargo and aparcel handling 

site inanapproximately 8,000 sqm 

hall. Geis has invested atotal of approximately 

EUR 7million inthe new build- 

ALogwin employee handling spare parts for an 

automotive industry client. 

the Logwin corporation worked inthe 

fields of contract logistics, offering supply 

chain management and warehousing 

services aswell asadded value options 

and complete outsourcing projects. 

Logwin’s Air +Ocean division (which 

offersworldwide airand seafreightactivities) 

will not be affected bythe closure 

and will continue tooffer its services in 

Turkey. 

schlote 

www.logwin-logistics.com 

ing. General cargo is handled inanarea 

covering approximately 5,000 sqm. Palletised 

shipments are transported with 

the help ofafully-automated conveyor 

belt system. Over and above this, there 

are almost 50truck bays with hydraulic 

ramps available for inbound and outbound 

goods. The parcel-handling hall 

covers approximately 3,000 sqm and is 

equipped with almost 100 gates. 

www.geis-group.com 

Photo: Logwin 

In brief 

Heppner growing. The French transport 

and logistics company Groupe Heppner, 

which isheadquartered inStrasbourg, 

recently opened anew branch office for air 

and sea freight services inClermont-Ferrand. 

www.groupe-heppner.com 

AEO certificate. The Swiss customs authority 

has awarded an authorised economic 

operator certificate (AEO) to Rhenus 

Contract Logistics, amember of Germany’s 

Rhenus Group. www.rhenus.ch 

Aramex doing well. The global transport, 

CEP and logistics firm Aramex, which is 

listed onthe Dubai stock exchange and 

whose global headquarters are inAmman 

(Jordan), has announced revenues ofAED 

3.1 billion (EUR 630 million) for 2012, an 

improvement of21% in comparison with the 

previous year. Net profits also rose, by 15 % 

to AED 244 million (EUR 50 million). 

www.aramex.com 

SDV adds Colombia. The French logistics 

service provider SDV has founded anew 

subsidiary in Colombia, thereby extending 

its Latin American network that covers Argentina, 

Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay. 

www.sdv.com 

Lagermax now present inTurkey. The 

Austrian freight forwarder and logistics 

service provider Lagermax, which isbased 

in Salzburg, recently founded anew subsidiary 

inTurkey. Lagermax Uluslarasi Nakliyat 

Lojistik isbased in Istanbul and has five 

employees. www.lagermax.com 

Rhenus Midi Data expanding. The German 

service provider Rhenus Midi Data, which is 

apart ofthe Rhenus Group, has expanded 

its 4,000 sqm terminal in Stuttgart (Germany) 

by4,900 sqm. Rhenus Midi Data 

provides specialised technical installation 

and logistics services tohigh-tech industries. 

www.rhenus.com

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Forwarding &Logistics 

23 

Acquisition 

DSV takes over Seatainers 

DSV, aDanish supplier of transport and logistics solutions with worldwide activities that 

is headquartered inBrøndby near Copenhagen, recently bought the Seatainers Group, a 

transport and logistics operator. The move is subject toapproval bythe cartel authority. 

Seatainers isset to become apart ofDSV. 

The service portfolio ofthe Seatainers 

Group includes warehousingand logistics 

solutionsaswellasroad, airand seafreight 

services. TheSeatainersGroup specialises 

in project logistics and performs large 

and complex transport projects, such as 

those required bythe renewable energy 

Photo: DSV 

industry. The company’s project cargo 

activities account for around 60% ofthe 

group’s overall sales of approximately 

EUR 134 million. 

The Seatainers Group, which has offices 

inthe USA, China, Singapore, Australia 

and Latvia, has 180 employees, 150 

of whom are employed in Denmark. The 

contract for the deal has been signed, 

but itremains subject toapproval bythe 

country’s cartel authority. The parties 

have agreed not todisclose the purchase 

price. Jens Bjørn Andersen, the CEO of 

the DSV group, told the media that «the 

Seatainers Group is a solidly-managed 

Danish enterprise. Its activities will fit 

very well with DSV’s.» www.dsv.com 

www.seatainers.com 

In brief 

FedEx inCanada. The USintegrator and 

CEP provider FedEx Express has expanded 

its operations in the Canadian prairie with a 

new state-of-the-art service centre in Saskatoon 

in the province ofSaskatchewan. The 

new facility includes 2,700 sqm of logistics 

areas toprovide shipping services for local 

businesses. 

www.fedex.com 

Definite. The Canadian transport firm Trans 

Force Inc has completed its acquisition of 

the USCEP service provider Velocity Express. 

www.velocityexpress.com 

www.transforcecompany.com 

Renamed. LTE Transport, aspecialist for 

temperature-controlled direct transport 

services that was taken over bythe German 

enterprise In Time Express Logistik, began 

trading under the name ofInTime Thermo 

Sprint on1February. The name change follows 

the successful integration into InTime 

Express. Temperature-controlled medical 

and pharmaceutical transportation remains 

In Time Thermo Sprint’s core business. 

www.lte-transport.de; www.intime.de 

Stef improves 2012 sales figure 

In 2012 the French temperature-controlled transport provider 

Stef increased its sales by 8.8% incomparison with 

the previous year, reporting anincome ofEUR 2.502 billion. 

The firm’s transport division improved by2.6% and 

its logistics unit by5.3%. Sales came toEUR 668 million 

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Militzer &Münch International Holding 

Expanding onthe Indian Subcontinent 

The transport and logistics service provider 

Militzer &Münch, which runs its 

international operations from St Gallen 

(Switzerland), has expanded its worldwide 

network by adding three locations in the 

Indian subcontinent. The company is now 

also represented inBangladesh, Pakistan 

and Sri Lanka. 

Militzer &Münch is expanding its business inPakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. 

Ewald Kaiser, the chief executive officer 

of the Militzer &Münch International 

Holding, commented on the reasons 

for the move to expand further inthe 

Indian subcontinent as follows. «All 

three countries have enormous potential 

and are important nodal points between 

Western and Southeastern Asia. Itisthis 

role which isespecially important for us 

strategically, and our activities there will 

augment Militzer &Münch’s already extensive 

Asian network perfectly.» 

The youngest member ofthe network 

is Militzer &Münch Logistics Pakistan. 

The company has been active inKarachi 

since December 2012. Karachi is the 

largest cargo hub in Pakistan. M&M 

mainly ships textiles via the port city. 

Start-up in Sri Lanka 

It also plans touse Pakistan as atransit 

location, particularly for cotton from 

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which will 

be transported to the world through 

Pakistan. 

In September2012, Militzer&Münch 

Transport Logistics Services was founded 

in Sri Lanka. The 16-strong team is 

based inthe port city of Colombo onSri 

Lanka’s western coast. Ceylon tea and 

textiles are among the most important 

goods to be exported. 

Another important economic sector 

is tourism. But Militzer &Münch also 

works forindustry in SriLanka.The most 

recent major project was anorder won 

from a well-known tyre manufacturer, 

which uses Militzer &Münch to bring 

its products from Sri Lanka toEurope. 

Photo: Militzer &Münch 

TNT Express still in troubled waters 

The CEP service provider TNT Express, 

based in Hoofddorp (Netherlands), 

boostedits turnover to EUR7.327 billion 

in financial 2012, a1.1 %increase compared 

tothe EUR 7.246 billion recorded 

ayear earlier. The company’s operating 

profit amounted to EUR 89million last 

year. In2011, TNT Express had made 

aloss of EUR 105 million. Despite the 

positive operating profit, the firm still 

suffered anet loss of EUR 83million 

in 2012, having registered ashortfall of 

EUR 272 million inthe preceding year. 

Now that the takeover by UPS has been 

cancelled TNT Express is getting set to 

make substantial cost cuts. The corporation 

wants todivest itself ofbusinesses in 

China and Brazil. www.tnt.com 

DPD (Switzerland) takes over Translog France 

The company DPD (Switzerland), which 

is amemberofthe DPDgroup,has taken 

over Translog France, a pan-European 

provider of customs-clearance services. 

The acquisition will enable DPD (Switzerland) 

to strengthen its cross-border 

parcel dispatch services. Translog France 

has been domiciled at the Basel/St Louis 

border crossingpostbetween Switzerland 

and France since 1991. All of Translog 

France’s activities will be integrated into 

the company TD Express. TDExpress, 

headquartered inHésingue (France), is a 

wholly-owned subsidiary of DPD (Switzerland). 

TDExpress will also take on all 

of Translog France’s staff. 

www.dpd.ch 

www.translog-france.fr 

Growth in Bangladesh 

Militzer &Münch has been represented 

in Bangladesh for ayear now. The projects 

managed by M&M Air Sea Bangladesh 

are coordinated by 14 members 

of staff based in two locations –inthe 

capital city Dhaka in the centre ofthe 

country, and inthe port city Chittagong 

in the southeast. 

The company focuses mainly onthe 

air and sea sectors. As Bangladesh’s largest 

industrial sector is textiles, these are 

the main goods transported byM&M 

Air Sea Bangladesh. The service provider 

wants toexpand inthe next few years, 

with the import ofcotton one key area, 

amongst many others. 

Safi Omar, incharge ofMilitzer & 

Münch’s activities onthe Indian Subcontinent, 

explained that «in all three 

countries we naturally only work with 

textile plants that adhere to strict labour,safetyand 

environmentalpolicies, 

which are ISO certified and which operatewithin 

theboundaries of therelevant 

international laws.» 

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Reducingcosts andimprovingthe ecological balancesheet 

The advantages of diversity 

Multimodal transport isnot only politically desired, itcan also save costs and inputs for shippers and forwarders. ITJ editor-in-chief 

Christian Doepgen recently spoke to Markus Heinen, aproject manager with the Short Sea Shipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center 

(SPC) in Bonn (Germany), which provides businesses with advice onthe subject. Headdressed inland waterways’ potential and risks. 

Mr Heinen,yourinstitute wasfounded 

in 2001. Isthere aconnection between 

this date and European initiatives begun 

in1998 that work towards amore 

balanced modal split – or was it a 

German initiative 

The initial impulse did come from the 

European Commission. At that time 

it was already recognised that the road 

network was rapidly reaching its capacity 

limits, while alternative modes still 

had significant potential lying fallow. A 

particular focus was on examining short 

seashipping, becausethe strongesteffects 

were expected here from the perspective 

of the more than 180,000 kilometres of 

coastline inEurope and the good port 

infrastructure. 

National implementation was left to 

member countries themselves. In Germany 

the public-private partnership SPC 

was set up, inorder to achieve ashared 

commitment from both the public and 

the private sectors. Germany was the 

third country to establish such acentre, 

after the Netherlands and Belgium. 

«Ever more transport by 

inland container.» 

Was the significance of optimising 

transport and shifting traffic away 

from theroads to othermodes of transport 

recognised too late by policymakers 

–orwere business leaders too late 

This is difficult toanswer onthe whole. 

In my opinion, the necessity ofmultimodality, 

meaning an economically and 

ecologically sensible networking of modes 

of transport, was recognised quite early 

on by policymakers. Promotional measures 

andanincreaseintransparencywere 

attempted, in ordertoopenthe transport 

industry up to amultimodal approach. 

If one considers it from the market 

side, you can see early birds as well as 

stragglers. Market opacity, alack ofsystem 

knowledge due toinsufficient training, 

or even gridlocked 

structures 

on thepartofshippers 

and forwarders 

can slow down 

theprocess.Thisis 

quite clearly demonstrated 

bythose 

firms that have 

adopted a multimodal 

approach 

as a solution (for 

trucks shouldn’t 

be excluded or 

demonised), and 

which have been 

able to generate 

significant added 

value for their cost 

structureand ecological balancesheet.So 

Ican’t entirely comprehend theclosedattitude 

of many shippers. 

Photo: SPC 

Short sea shipping is traditionally 

strong inthe bulk cargo segment (approximately 

80% of volumes). Doyou 

believe that atrend toward more containers 

in short sea shipping is aprerequisite 

for amodal shift –especially 

in view of increased oil prices 

The trend towards increased container 

shipping is significant –not only in the 

short sea field, but also inthe traditional 

bulk goods segment. Inland shipping is 

increasingly relevant for transport by 

container. It is important toavoid any 

loss of load space in comparison with 

trailers. 45 foot high-cube containers 

with 33 pallet slots can be deployed to 

this end. 

An additional requirement toadvance 

containerisation is an efficient scheduled 

container service network inthe European 

maritime sector, with increased coverage 

and frequencies inaccordance with 

demand. Scheduled services will allow 

smallconsignmentstobecarriedand can 

achieve good shipment planning based 

on the timing of the transit schedule 

Markus Heinen, SPC’s project manager for short sea shipping, maritime 

ports and multimodal transport. 

and the bypassing ofobstacles. The low 

concentration ofpollutants per transport 

unit, the high degree ofspecialisation of 

tonnage and the cost efficiency from the 

economies ofscale are other noteworthy 

advantages. 

Some of the disadvantages of waterborne 

transport solutions include longer 

transit times, asomewhat greater planning 

effort and the cost structures in 

European seaports. However, positive 

developments can beseen here aswell. 

«Bear in mind how many trailers can 

be shipped on ashort sea coaster.» 

What about investment Has there, in 

your perception, been anincrease in 

public investment to improve coastal 

andinlandwaterwaysand connections 

to ports that are essential for short sea 

shipping Has private industry given 

increasedattention to specialisation in 

ship construction,orare multipurpose 

ships still largely deployed 

In the short sea shipping field, just asin 

all other modes oftransport, we’ve seen 

aslowdown ininvestment. The money 

that is available inatransport budget is

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Road Haulage/Intermodal 

27 

certainly extensive, but unfortunately it 

cannot enable allnecessary infrastructure 

projects. But an overall positive trend is 

identifiable. Asyou already mentioned, 

thereisapredominance of greaterspecialisation 

intonnage and likewise incontainer 

equipment inshort sea shipping. 

Why are the ecological advantages of 

short sea shipping not well known by 

thepublic, in contrast with thoseofthe 

railways 

This has partially to do with the strong 

lobbying activities of the rail sector and 

theproximity of rail to citizens.Shiptrafficisstill 

associated strongly with passengeractivitiesonwater.The 

fact that more 

than 95% ofincoming goods reach our 

continentonmaritime routes is oftennot 

clear tothe general public. 

In intra-European traffic, ships offer 

strong environmental benefits and are 

gaining alead compared with rail. If one 

bears in mindhow many trailers worth of 

goods can beshipped on anormal short 

sea coaster then it quickly becomes clear 

that the ecological balance sheet per unit 

transported can only be positive. 

Recent attempts at emissions reduction, 

which were prompted by stricter 

EU regulations regarding sulphur limits, 

show that there iseven more potential. 

«The intermodal shift 

has to start in people’s heads.» 

With and thanks to the consulting 

services of SPC, more than 1billion 

tkm were shifted from the roads to 

the inland waterways, and approximately 

60,000 tofCO 2 emissions were 

prevented in the last twelve years. In 

which ofyour best practice projects do 

you take particular pride 

The figures stated are somewhat vague, 

because this data only deals with results 

of the first shipping order, meaning that 

tkm avoided and emissions for continuing 

transportation aren’t taken into account. 

In addition, the feedback we get 

from customers advised by us varies. So 

SPC has discontinued this kind of accounting. 

Of greater importance than the actual 

shifted amounts, to me, is the overall 

willingness of companies todiscuss the 

subject. The intermodal shift has to start 

in people’s heads. Potential can be found 

in the shipping processes of practically 

every shipper. 

An especially noteworthy project is the 

one with Kraft Foods. SPC was able to 

identify ten routes with 5,000 truck runs 

ayear for action on an intermodal shift. 

This corresponds toareduction of about 

30% inthe company’s road traffic. 

Aweightier international shipper–the 

chemical company BASF –joined the 

SPCinSeptember2012. Do you expect 

this to have asignaleffectonshippers 

Have you observed steadymembership 

growth in thetransport sectorYou initially 

had seven members, and in the 

meantime this has increased to 42 paying 

members. 

The SPC hopes for aso-called lighthouse 

effect with the addition of alarge market 

player such asBASF toour membership.Two 

shippers from ourmembership 

base, BASF andK+S,have demonstrated 

multimodality and transport logistics efficiency 

with their activities. Despite 

their own fully-developed expertise and 

years of effort in this direction, both 

companies could still attain added value 

with thesupport of theSPC,bethatona 

conceptual, operational or politicallevel. 

The SPC’s membership is growing 

rapidly, thanks toour dynamic development, 

and today itcovers all areas ofthe 

transportworld.Our networkallowsusto 

quickly and effectively process transport 

queriesand consultancycontracts,which 

we handle at no charge. 

How do you view the international 

trend which is showing a decline in 

the modal shift toecological and highqualitytransport 

modessuchasthe inland 

barge and the freight train –contrary 

tothe expressed political will 

Examples ofthis are the limited offerings 

from therailways(includingRCA, 

SNCB andSBB). Is that reasonable cost 

awareness –orapolitical mistake 

Unfortunately, you are right and there 

are some declining quantities to report. 

Water-borne transport is often underrated. 

Photo: Départements des transports 

Unfortunately, price often seems tobe 

the only variable factor in the transport 

industry to perennially beatthe top of 

list of elements that can betackled. Itremains 

tobeseen where the journey will 

lead us. There are signs of capacity bottlenecks 

in road infrastructure (or with 

trucks and drivers), increased fees for the 

useofinfrastructure, higher environmentalawareness 

on thepartofcustomers and 

alackofplanningfor transport. Whether 

we can talk about reasonable decisions in 

this context isanopen question. 

The projection for transport development 

through to2025 assumes average 

annual growth of at least 3%. Have the 

market dynamics been overestimated 

Projections of the growth inthe volume 

of goods have been part of thediscussion 

for some time now. Whether the growth 

rate will actually turn out tobeashigh 

as 75 %by2025 orifwe«only» grow by 

45 %isirrelevant. The effect will still be 

the same –gridlock. 

«The SPC is happy to support 

and advise companies.» 

But this path isnot inevitable. For this 

reason, myappeal tothe shippers from 

industry and trade is this. Use the resources 

for water-borne transport modes 

that are available! Position your company.Get 

yourselfconnected to therelevant 

market players. 

However you approach the issue, at 

least beopen todiscussions. The SPC 

is happy to be your sparring partner on 

this path andcan supportyourcompany, 

neutrally and without financial interest, 

be it in the analysis ofdaily business or 

of aproject for your firm’s overall shipping 

structure. 

At which events can companies form 

theirown impression of theworkdone 

by the SPC 

On 14 March we will co-present «Short 

Sea 13» inParis, together with the European 

Short Sea Network. Our own SPC 

theme night will be held on 21 March in 

Duisburg. Ofcourse we’ll also be present 

at the transport logistics 2103 trade fair 

in Munich, together with our members 

Arkon Shipping, OPDR and multimodal 

forwarder Robert Kukla. This autumn 

will also see the 10th Short Sea dialogue 

session inBonn, as well as another SPC 

theme night in Hamburg.

28 High-Tech Logistics /Intralogistics International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Intralogistics 

Jungheinrich mobilises 

Feldschlösschen 

Together with the Feldschlösschen beverage company the intralogistics 

systems supplier Jungheinrich recently celebrated the delivery of116 type 

EJE 116 low lift trucks. In future these little helpers will assist Feldschlösschen’s 

truck drivers inthe delivery of the drinks. 

Feldschlösschen is aleading brewer and 

the biggest beverage supplier inSwitzerland.Withanoutputof340 

millionlitres 

each year it produces more than 50 types 

of beverages including 38kinds of beer 

for the Swiss market. With its extensive 

range of drinks and efficient services, 

Feldschlösschen is adependable partner 

for the catering sector and the wholesale 

and retail beverage trade. Tomaintain its 

standards every day, asmooth materials 

flow must be constantly assured. Production, 

storage and delivery are therefore 

optimally dovetailed together. 

Good relations in the partnership 

As amarket leader and an all-round supplier 

ofintralogistics systems, Jungheinrich 

has the know-how itneeds toprovide 

its customers with industry-specific 

advice and tobeanexpert partner for 

Feldschlösschen along the entire materials 

flow chain. Jungheinrich has collaborated 

with Feldschlösschen since 2003 

and supplies industrial trucks, warehouse 

and materials flow technology all over 

Switzerland, as well as providing customer 

services ofthe highest standard. 

«The interpersonal side must also work. 

We have avery good business 

relationship and the 

advice we receive from 

ourcontact personsisalso 

very good. Problems can 

be discussed frankly, and 

we work together very much onthe basis 

of apartnership,» said Andreas Bucher, 

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beverage company. 

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In asecond roll-out, 116 electric low-lift 

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These highly economical, efficient and 

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With ateam ofmore than 100 service 

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ASIA / 

MIDDLE EAST 

30 DP World analysing its 

commitments in detail 

30 New China–Middle East service 

32 Swarovski selects Singapore 

for its regional hub inAsia 

34 Etihad improves profits 

34 Emirates to offer second 

Filipino link from autumn 

35 More airfreight in Middle East 

36 Shanghai ahead of Singapore 


Growth in Asia and the Middle East remains steady 

Cautiously optimistic 

Even though traffic toand from Asia will remain the problem child ofthe global logistics 

industry, the local situation isstable, thanks also tointra-Asian trade. China remains the 

growth engine. Inthe Middle East the UAE, Qatar and Oman make upthe leading trio. 

TheWorld Bank hasupped itsprediction 

for growth inChina, stating that it believes 

that the economy of the people’s 

republic will grow by 8.4% this year, as 

theorganisation said in Singapore. In the 

meantime, the volume of Chinese investment 

in Europe is greater than the flow 

of fundsinthe oppositedirection.China 

has landed softly inthe current downturn, 

even ifChinese shipping lines such 

as Cosco and CSCL will remember 2012 

as adifficult year with heavy losses. 

The prospects for India, in contrast, 

are weaker in2013, with growth under 

6% expected. The country saw the signs 

of the times and implemented appropriate 

changes in September 2012, ensuring 

that foreign capital can flow more easily 

into domestic infrastructure projects. 

Such measures are urgently required, 

taking into account the fact that in 2012 

congestion in Indian ports lead tovessels 

being discharged up to 25 days after 

arrival. These facts do not change the 

state ofglobal port affairs, however, with 

Asian hubs’ leading role undiminished 

(see also page 36). 

In theMiddle Eastthe AgilityEmerging 

Markets Logistics Index gives good marks 

to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and 

Qatar. Theirmaritime exportsgrewbyup 

to 20% in2012, and inthe case of Oman 

this progress has included destinations in 

the USA and inEurope. Oil and gas exports 

are not even part ofthese figures. 

In the airfreight segment the Middle 

East has done very well recently, with 

stable overall volumes. Individual players 

such asEtihad were pleased to report 

higher profits in2012 than in2011 (see 

also page 34). ExportsfromEUcountries 

to Saudi Arabia grew by15% in 2012, 

spreading confidence that ahesitant upswing 

may slowly be catching on. 

Photo: UN 

The industry has faith intrade in Asia. 

Logistics experts believe that the region’s 

greatest potential now lies in intra-Asian 

and in Asian–African trade. But there 

are other recipes being cooked up in the 

world’s recovery kitchens too. Indonesia, 

which registered 6.5% growth in2012, 

the second-highest figure in Asia after 

China, had tolower its projection for exports 

tothe USA from USD 205 to190 

billion, afteraweakend to theyear. It will 

continue to gear its booming economy 

consistently to domestic demand. 

Christian Doepgen

30 Asia /Middle EastSpecial International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Investmentsanalysed 

DP World reassesses situation 

DP World, the Dubai-based fourth-largest container terminal operator worldwide, divested last year from four joint venture 

terminals itwas involved in. The corporation wants to concentrate more on those areas and regions where it can attain 

satisfactory returns. 


The Jebel Ali free trade zone is at the heart ofDPWorld’s activities. 

DP World handled 56.1 million teu in its 

global portfolio in2012, a2.4 %increase 

over the prior year. Itfaced substantial 

challenges in attainingthese results, however, 

especially inthe second half of the 

year. This led to the company carefully 

Yang Ming changes 

Hungarian agency 

The Taiwanese shipping line Yang Ming 

substantiallyexpandedits globalactivities 

recently andnow also focusesongrowing 

Central European markets –particularly 

Hungary. Thus Yang Ming Shipping Europe’s 

department of German agency has 

replaced Mafracht with Aseco Budapest 

as Yang Ming’s dedicated liner agent in 

the country, with effect from 1March. 

The three partners underlined the fact 

that the change of representation was 

amicable. Yang Ming isactive inthe Far 

and Middle East, South Asia, India, Pakistan, 

Mediterranean, Black Sea and US 

trades, handling containers,heavyliftand 

oversized cargo. 

it 

www.aseco.hu; www.yangming.com 

re-analysing its investment strategy and 

deciding to withdraw its stakes inatotal 

offour terminals. Adjusting for these 

divestments during the year, like-for-like 

gross container volume growth came in 

3.7%higher than last year.SultanAhmed 

MOL establishes 

new Myanmar office 

The Japanese shipping line MOL, which 

has operated adirect feeder service linking 

Singapore with Yangon since March 

2012, isset to become one ofthe first 

shipping firms toset up awholly-owned 

subsidiary in Myanmar. For more than 

100 years MOL has been involved inthe 

trade to and from the Southeast Asian 

country, which issurrounded byThailand, 

Laos, China, India, Bangladesh 

and whose coast isonthe Bay ofBengal. 

MOL’s new subsidiary Myanmar MOL 

will be headquarteredinYangonand represented 

byJoe Kam (the representative 

of MOL Asia), thus further intensifying 

MOL’s links with Myanmar. 

it 

www.mol.co.jp 

Bin Sulayem, DP World’s chairman, 

pointed out that «during 

the year under review, the 

deteriorating macroeconomic 

environment and high levels 

of capacity utilisation led us to 

change our short-term strategy 

and focus more on high-quality 

revenue-generating business.» 

The company nevertheless expects 

to achieve an ebitda in 

line with expectations for 2012. 

The firm can do with the money, 

with 2013 expected to see 

planned new capacity coming 

on trackinSantos(Brazil), Jebel 

Ali (UAE) and atthe London 

Gateway (UK). DP World will 

also be investing inanew terminal 

in Jawaharlal Nehru Port 

in 2013 (see ITJ 07-08/2013, page 11). it 

www.dpworld.com 

New China–Middle 

East service 

The Japanese carrier MOL Liner is starting 

a new weekly China–Middle East 

express link (CMX), departing Ningbo 

for the first time on11March. MOL is 

able to offer this additional weekly connection 

because it is joining anexisting 

service operated by APL. The CMX service, 

which offers aturnaround time of 

42 days, will deploy six vessels, one of 

which will beMOL’s postpanamax unit 

the MOL Tyne. The Japanese shipping 

line said that «the move will enable us to 

increase the number ofsailings between 

Chinaand theMiddle East, amongst other 

things.» The port rotation ofthe new 

CMX link will start in Ningbo and proceed 

to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chiwan, 

Singapore, Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi, Sohar, 

Singapore, Nansha and Xiamen before 

returning toNingbo again. 

it 

www.mol.co.jp

It’s all happenIng 

rIght here.


DB Schenker inSingapore 

Distribution centre for Swarovski 

The Austrian company Swarovski, the world’s leading producer ofcut crystal, genuine gemstones and created stones, has chosen 

Schenker Singapore to set upits first regional distribution centre. DBSchenker will provide anigh-on 5,000 sqm warehouse and 

valued-adding services tocater to growing demand for Swarovski’s products inthe region. 

Swarovski has also asked DBSchenker 

to carry out the company’s inbound and 

outbound air and ocean transportation 

to and from Singapore, thus making DB 

Schenker Swarovski’s total integrated logistics 

service provider in the centre. The 

DB Schenker logistics service centre covers 

4,650 sqm ofdedicated warehousing 

space inthe Singapore free trade zone. 

Adding valued with special services 

Approximately 80specialist staff will be 

employed there, and DBSchenker will 

offer inventory management aswell as 

picking and packing activities, together 

with awide array of value-adding services, 

including jewellery inspection, high 

volume labelling in different languages, 

gift packing and the printing ofcustomised 

greeting cards. The Tapa-A-certified 

premises will enjoy very tight security, 

with additional special safety measures. 

The Transported Asset Protection Association 

(Tapa) isaprofessional body of 

high-techenterprises that jointlypromote 

higher securitystandards in international 

transport and in the airfreight industry. 

DB Schenker will provide its customer Swarovski with added-value services inSingapore. 

Jens Pries, Swarovski’s head ofglobal logistics, 

told themedia that «DBSchenker 

Singapore impressed us with its logistics 

skills, professionalism and great team 

work inthis new venture for Swarovski.» 

Darren Wedding, DB Schenker’s senior 

vice-president for contract logistics 

and supply chain management in the 

Asia-Pacific region, added that his company 

«recognises the fact that outsourcing 

business to a3PL requires athorough 

assessment of its capabilities. We were 

delighted towin the bid for Swarovski’s 

regional distribution centre.» ra 

www.dbschenker.com 

www.tapaonline.org 

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Etihad increases 

tonnage byone fifth 

The Abu Dhabi-based Emirati carrier 

Etihad Airways made a profit for the 

second year in arow in 2012. Itposted 

anet profit of USD 42million, a200% 

improvementonthe USD14millionregisteredin2011. 

Presidentand CEO James 

Hogan said that it had been what he 

called «a game-changing year for Etihad 

Airways». The company recorded some 

success in building what it called thefirst 

equity alliance, with investment inAir 

Seychelles (40%), airberlin (29%), Virgin 

Australia (9%) and Aer Lingus (3%). 

Theairline’s freightbusiness also made 

a massive contribution to the result. 

Etihad Airways’ cargounitdelivered growth 

of 19%, to bring its tonnage to 367,837 t, 

on the back ofacapacity increase of 14% 

in availablefreighttonne kilometres (aftk). 

Services to six new destinations (Tripoli, 

Shanghai,Nairobi,Lagos,Ahmedabadand 

Basra),increased frequenciesand capacities 

to six cities (Düsseldorf, Bangkok, Kuwait, 

Dammam, Istanbul and Cairo) and increasing 

the fleet by six to70aircraft were 

cited asreasons for the improvement. The 

airline isplanning tofurther upgrade its 

fleet by14new aircraft in 2013, with three 

full-freighters and six wide-bodied aircraft 

(Boeing 777-300ERs) due tobedelivered. 

The airline also announced new flights to 

Washington, Amsterdam, São Paolo and 

Ho Chi Minh City in 2013. 

www.etihadcargo.com 

Bahrain Air 

Not all that glitters... 

Not allthe carriersoperating outofthe Persian 

Gulf arereachingfor thestars.Bahrain 

Air, which was founded five years ago, declared 

bankruptcy and grounded its fleet 

on 14 February,citingfinancial difficulties. 

Andthisonaday when American Airlines, 

another insolvent industry player, seized 

the opportunity of anew start (see page 

40 of this issue). The private airline had a 

difficultstand againststate-owned Gulf Air 

rightfromthe beginning, andits debtsgrew 

substantially inthe last few months. Now 

itsfourAirbusaircraft,which served18destinations 

inthe Middle East and Asia, are 

permanently atManama airport. 

www.bahrainair.net 

Emirates settoserve Clarkairport from theautumn 

Second Filipino 

destination soon 

The Dubai-based Emirati carrier Emirates is set tobegin daily nonstop flights to Clark 

international airport on 1October. Emirates has been operating flights to Manila, 

the capital of the Philippines, since 1990 and has continually increased frequencies on 

the route since then. 

Emirates’ new connection between Dubai and the Philippines is served byaBoeing B777-300ER. 

Tim Clark, the president ofEmirates Airline,told 

themedia that theintroduction 

of the airline’s second destination inthe 

Philippines was prompted by the market 

situation, as «there has been growing 

demand for Emirates’ services since we 

connected Manila with Dubai and our 

constantly-expanding network on six 

continents.» Emirates currently offers 

three daily nonstop services from Dubai 

to the Filipino capital. 

Clark international airport islocated 

in the province ofPampanga incentral 

Luzon, 80 km north of Manila. The 

strategic location of the former USair 

force base near the metropolis ofAngeles 

means ithas acatchment area of 

around 17 million people. 

160 tofcargo capacity more aweek 

The Emirates president added that his 

airline is «looking forward to building 

our relationship with the country and 

enhancing tourism and trade links between 

the Philippines and the UAE, and 

beyond our hub to our global network 

too,» before thanking the government of 

the Philippines, the country’s civil aviation 

authority and the operator of Clark 

airport, who hesaid had made the start 

of the service possible. 

The new link, which will be operated 

by Boeing 777-300ERs, will enable 

Emirates SkyCargo to provide more 

than 160 tofadditional cargo hold capacity 

each way each week, supporting 

Filipino perishables exports (including 

dairy products, fruit and vegetables, 

meat, seafood), aswell aselectrical and 

electronic equipment exports. Filipino 

imports (textiles, apparel, plants, flowersand 

chemical products)willnaturally 

also be carried on inbound flights. 

Clark international airport is the 

home base of the carrier Transglobal 

Airways. The centre also offers flights 

operated by several Asian airlines and 

the list of full-freighter operators that 

manage activities to and from the airport 

includes the USA’s FedEx Express 

and UPS Airlines, the Philippine’s Pacific 

East Asia Cargo, Indonesia’s Tri MG 

Intra Asia and China’s Yangtze River 

Express. 

ah 

www.dmia.ph 

www.skycargo.com 

Photo: Emirates

Asia /Middle EastSpecial 

35 

On-board batteries hit the headlines 

recently. 

Photo: Volga-Dnepr Gulf 

Volga-Dnepr Technics 

opens battery workshop 

Volga-Dnepr Gulf, which represents 

Volga-DneprTechnics(theMRO unit 

of Russia’sVolga-DneprGroup)inthe 

Middle East, opened an aircraft battery 

workshop atSharjah airport in 

January. This is the second Volga-Dnepr facility inSharjah, where a 

wheels and brakes workshop commenced services inDecember 2012. 

Volga-Dnepr Gulf opened inSharjah in 1996. The battery workshop, 

which iscertified under Easa part 145 and the Arab aviation authorities’ 

CAR 145 certificate, offers servicing of Varta and Saft batteries, 

including inspection, repairs and overhauls. www.volga-dnepr.com 

Friendlier signs from the Far East 

The airport association ACI Asia-Pacific reported relative 

stagnation in Asia (+0.5% vis-à-vis2011) andgrowth 

in the Middle East (+4.2%) in 2012. The list of hubs 

is headed byHong Kong, which handled more than 

4milliontofairfreight, Shanghai Pudong(2.8milliont), 

Seoul Incheon (2.3 million t), Dubai (2.2 million t)and 

Tokyo Narita (1.9 million t). There was double-digit 

growth in Jakarta (+19%), Abu Dhabi (+18%), Riyadh 

(+17%), Manila (+12%) and Hangzhou (+10%). The 

January growth figure ofapproximately 2% for the Far 

East gives hope for abetter 2013, but has to be taken 

guardedlyinthe lightofthe boostprovidedbythe early 

Asian new year. 

www.aci-asiapac.aero 

In brief 

Record year. Saudi Airlines Cargo registered 

alandmark achievement byposting arecord 

result in 2012, handling atotal of 516,000t of 

goods, which represented a21% improvement 

in revenues compared with 2011. The best 

growth figures were reported by traffic from 

Bangladesh (+72%), from the United Arab 

Emirates (+51%), from Europe (+47%) and to 

Europe (+43%). www.saudiacargo.com 

Amman–Algiers. Royal Jordanian commenced 

services between the Jordanian and 

the Algerian capitals on 25 February. The link 

will initially betwice-weekly and will become 

thrice-weekly on 3April. www.rj-cargo.com 

Resumed services. Iraqi Airways resumed operations 

to Kuwait on 16 February and is set to 

restart links between Baghdad, Sulaimaniyya 

and London Gatwick (United Kingdom) from 

5March onwards. Iraq’s national carrier, which 

will deploy its own aircraft onthe routes, last 

served Kuwait 22years ago and London 23 

years ago. 

www.iq-airways.com 

Perspective vs piracy. The Japanese shipping 

line MOL has joined aUnited Nations development 

initiative that was launched ayear ago 

and which aims toprovide training and create 

jobs in Somalia. The undertaking’s industry 

partners contribute USD 1million to the laudable 

effort. 

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Theraceofthe giants 

Shanghai stays ahead of Singapore 

Shanghai needed only acomparatively short time toovertake its main rival, Singapore, after the latter had only recently moved 

ahead ofHong Kong. One thing iscertain, namely that interms of volume the Asian ports play inanentirely different league 

than their European competitors. 

Shanghai, the world’s largest port, 

achieved a further increase in its container 

throughput in 2012. According to 

the Shanghai International Port Group 

(SIPG), whichmanages thehub,the numberofboxes 

that passed throughthe port 

was upby2.5%, from 31.7 to 32.5 million 

teu. The total volume of goods handled, 

at50.2 million t,remained more or 

less at the previous year’s level. 

The port operator stated that «it had 

made great efforts to counter the effects 

of theglobaleconomicslowdown.»Ithad 

met its target for the year and had maintained 

its satisfactory overall financial 

situation. 

Both broke the 30 million teu barrier 

SIPG, which is listed on the Shanghai 

stock exchange, increased its net profit 

by 4.2% to USD 773 million. Sales were 

up by aremarkable 32% to USD 4.6 billion. 

The port undertaking attributes 

this double-digit growth tothe new tax 

reforms and larger container volumes, 

Evergreen announces 

rate restoration 

Evergreen Line, whose market share of 

4.4% makes it the world’s fifth-largest 

container shipping line, according to 

Alphaliner, has announced arate restoration 

programme for the trades between 

theFar East(includingJapan),the Indian 

Subcontinent, Europe and the Mediterranean.The 

increase will amount to USD 

700/teuand USD1,400/feu or high-cube 

container for westbound trade from 

15 March, whilst for eastbound trade it 

will take effecton1March andamountto 

USD 150/teu and USD 300/feu or highcube 

container. Many lines’ rate increases 

have proved to be unimplementable recently, 

soitremains to be seen whether 

Evergreen will bemore successful. it 

www.evergreen-line.com 

Shanghai is the most important industrial city in China. 

among other things. The port ofShanghai 

comprises adeepsea port and ariver 

port located atthe mouth ofthe Yangtze 

river incentral China. 

Loss for Hanjin 

in 2012 

Hanjin Shipping, the largest Korean 

line, made a loss of USD 586 million 

last year, even though sales increased by 

11.2% toUSD 9.7 billion. In2011 the 

net loss stood at USD 758 million. The 

company’s operating loss in 2012 came 

to USD101 million, adecrease of79% 

vis-à-vis 2011. Hanjin said that its profitability 

improvement in the midst of 

atough business environment was due 

partially to freight rates recovering on 

the main service lanes, as well as costreduction 

efforts. The firm now predicts 

that asupply-heavy market will persist 

in the container sector, due to on-going 

large vessel deliveries, but that its profitability 

will nevertheless improve. it 

www.hanjin.com 

For the rival port ofSingapore, the Maritime 

and Port Authority of Singapore 

(MPA) has also reported a volume of 

more than 30 million teu in 2012. Atotal 

of31.6 million teu (+5.7% compared 

with 2011)was loaded orunloaded inthe 

port, enabling Singapore to hold on to 

second placeinthe list of theworld’s largest 

container ports. 

Domestic and international growth 

Singapore’s transport minister Lui Tuck 

Yew pointed out that «as the principal 

hub between the main trade routes, 

Singaporehas notbeenunaffectedbythe 

challenging developments in the global 

economy, naturally enough. I’m pleased 

that Maritime Singapore nevertheless 

achieved good growth in2012.» 

Market observers see the reasons for 

the increase in Shanghai in the country’s 

own economic advance, and inthe 

growth of neighbouring southeast Asian 

countries such as Indonesia,Thailandand 

the Philippines in the case ofSingapore. 

Both ports expect container volumes to 

continue to expand in 2013. 

it 

www.portshanghai.com.cn 

www.mpa.gov.sg 

Photo: thinkstock

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Southeastern Europe &Turkey 

37 

In conversation with HalitAnlatan, cargo vice-president of Turkish Airlines 

Ambitious and dynamic 

Turkish Airlines will grow in 2013 too. At the recent SSC airfreight seminar in Interlaken 

its cargo vice-president answered the ITJ’s questions on the challenges facing his airline. 

Mr Anlatan, you became THY’s vicepresident 

for cargo activities in January 

2011. How did the first complete 

year under your leadership go 

We increased our cargo volume by24% 

in 2012, whilst revenues rose by 19%. 

Please tell us about Turkish Cargo’s 

business relations with Switzerland. 

We offer three daily flights toZurich, 

one option aday to Basel and three daily 

flights toGeneva. We also operate three 

full-freighter flights aweek toZurich. 

How has your company developed 

sincethe Iata WorldCargo Symposium 

was held inIstanbul two years ago 

We’ve doubled our cargo fleet toseven 

aircraft since then, and our tonnage and 

revenues have both also risen byabout 

50% inthis time. 

Halit Anlatan, THY’s cargo vice-president. 

Plans for alarge new airport in Istanbul 

are concrete. Please describe the 

dimensions ofthis project for us. 

The tender process will close on3May, 

then the next steps can betaken towards 

Photo: Turkish Cargo THY 

an airport with five runways and acapacitytohandle140 

millionpassenger ayear. 

This will make it the number one hub in 

Europe. We’ll then target aplace in the 

top 15airfreight operators inthe world, 

handling 1million tofcargo annually. 

In 2012 you startedmanynew services. 

What’s in the pipeline for this year 

We’retargeting35new passengerdestinations 

aswell asperhaps four or five new 

freighter services in2013. 

Therehas been talkabout acloserpartnership 

with Lufthansa. How would 

that affect your cargo business 

No collaboration has been agreed upon 

yet, but weexpect tonegotiate on opportunities 

for each partner in the first 

quarter of2013. 

What is it that you find most interesting 

inthe airfreight business 

There are new challenges every year, but 

we can easily find our own way to reach 

ourtargets, especially with such abig and 

ambitious family working together ina 

dynamic way, not just doing mechanical 

business.

38 Southern Europe International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Newintermodal container terminal in Tarragona 

First convoy in 

Bertschi terminal 

In February 2013 themultinational company Bertschisuccessfully carried 

out its first shipment in Tarragona–the new intermodalterminalhas 

thus survived itsbaptism of fire. 

Bertschi recently provided the successful finale toaEUR 3million 

investment project in Tarragona (Spain) when it completed its first 

transportoperation,achemicalshipmentbyrail, withoutany problems 

in its new container terminal, which has acapacity of 800 containers. 

This coincided with the 20th anniversary ofthe company commencing 

its activities on the Iberian Peninsula, and was therefore agreat 

birthday present. 

The outlook for the project isgood. When the terminal’s third rail 

spur to Castellbisbal (Barcelona) becomes operational, transport services 

from Tarragona will beable touse the European broad-gauge 

track, and enjoy the subsequent flexibility. 

There was no shortage of notable figures at the opening of the 

new terminal. The president ofSpain’s national ports authority, José 

Photo: Bertschi 

The intermodal terminal is linked to the European rail network. 

Llorca, personally presided over the inauguration. Representatives 

ofthe participating Spanish national railway 

infrastructure company Adif (Administrator de infraestructuras 

ferroviaras) and the Spanish ministry of 

construction and economic development also took the 

opportunity to take part in the official ceremony, along 

with agroup of journalists and industry representatives. 

Accessibility and transport benefits 

The new terminal brings anumber ofbenefits interms 

of transporttothe area.Container handling in Port Bou 

will cease. The connection toBarcelona Morrot, where 

the railtracks were converted to the European gauge in 

December 2011, provides access to the European network. 

By switching to rail transport, approximately 100 

fewer trucks aweek will operate on the roads between 

Barcelona and Tarragona. Twoweekly railway connections 

have been envisaged initially. The new terminal is 

located inthe immediate vicinity of azone designated 

for the chemical industry, directly inaBayer plant. 

Terminal’s facilities and services 

Planned expansionofthe Bertschi terminal in Tarragona 

foresees an increase of the 800 teu storage capacity to 

1,200 teu, including agantry crane. Atotal of 530m of 

Iberian and European gauge tracks run across the site’s 

area, which extends to18,000sqm. The terminal can 

handle trains with alength ofupto750m. 

The terminal is suitable for both the interim and reserve 

storage ofbuffer stocks, thanks toits design. The 

handling equipment also includes safety lifting gear, 

which enables work tobecarried out even at agreat 

height. The terminal also has electric and steam-operated 

heating systems, aBayer weighbridge, and anADRcertified 

warehouse. 

Bertschi has all the necessary transhipment licences, 

includingfor thehandlingofhazardousgoods.The new 

centre is open from 06.00 to22.00 from Mondays to 

Saturdays, and isadditionally onstand-by 24 hours a 

day, seven days aweek. 

Christian Doepgen

International Transport Journal 09-102013 Africa 

39 

East Africa’s ports hit capacity 

Ports cooperating against congestion 

Not only the increasing container throughput is putting amajor strain on 

the ports of East Africa. Examinations in Kenya have shown that despite 

good equipment, throughput in the port ofMombasa is hampered bybad 

organisation ofthe onward transport ofcontainers. The port ofDar es 

Salaam in Tanzania, incontrast, has increased the throughput of containers 

by16% since 2011. 

Theportauthorities of Tanzania andKenya 

have announced apartnership,inorder 

to master thefrequentcongestion in hubs 

and toaccelerate freight throughput. The 

Kenyan ambassador to Tanzania, Mutinda 

Mutiso, and the managing director of 

theKenya PortsAuthority,Gichiri Ndua, 

made acorresponding announcement in 

Dar esSalaam inFebruary 2013. Privatesector 

discontent concerning thefactthat 

the port ofMombasa frequently hits its 

capacity limits –which is also down to 

mismanagementbythe port authority,as 

an investigation conducted by the Shipping 

Council inKenya shows –gave rise 

to the talks. Inthe past, however, there 

have been various voices holding the 

shipping companies themselves responsible, 

as they unload anincreased number 

of boxes, but fail toensure the timely 

onward transportation thereof bytruck, 

althoughtheythemselvesare thecustoms 

agents and forwarders. 

Land-locked countries need ports too 

Mutiso explained that aplanned new terminal 

in the Juba region will beable to 

handle the additional 960,000 teu forecast 

for Mombasa by2015. The development 

of theportofLamuinsoutheastern 

Kenya, whereatraffic hubhas been under 

construction with aport, arail link and 

amotorway, with an investment of EUR 

17.5 billion since March 2012, isalso referredtoasafurther 

step towards improvingand 

accelerating freightthroughput in 

thecountry.The newterminal in Lamu is 

scheduledtoreach an annual throughput 

capacity of 1.2 million teu. It will have 

three berths of230 m, 320 mand 350 m 

in length. 

The problem of container congestion 

in the port ofMombasa, amongst other 

places, affects all ofEast Africa, as aconsiderable 

share of the goods unloaded 

is destined for other destinations. The 

Kenyan ports are also of 

huge significance for the 

land-locked countries of 

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, 

South Sudan and the 

DemocraticRepublicofthe Congowhen 

it comes tofreight transport. Mombasa, 

as Kenya’sonlydeepsea port,has 16 deepseaquays 

andfivecontainer berths.Ithas 

experienced dynamic development in its 

freight volumes over the past ten years, 

recordinganaverage growth rate of 7.4%. 

CFM set to expand 

after outages 

Rainfall anddam bursts in northern Mozambique 

at the beginning ofand again 

in mid-February caused temporary interruptions 

to freight connections in the 

country’srailtransport system, with both 

theTete–Beiracoaltransportationlineas 

well as the Nakala–Malawi line heavily 

affected bythe events. 

The national logistics company Mozambique 

Ports and Railway (CFM) has 

now concluded an agreement with the 

Brazilian mining company Vale to develop 

the Nakala corridor. Inaddition, a 

Beacon Hill Resources rail link has been 

planned, in order to direct coal transports 

via the Sena line between Tete and 

the port ofBeira. The projects include a 

new connection tothe coal terminal in 

Nakala-a-Velha,the expansionofexisting 

lines and anew 210 kmrail connection 

linkingthe networktothe westernborder 

with Malawi. 

Theworkfor theproject, on whichrollingstock 

from SouthAfricaisplanned to 

be used, isscheduled for completion at 

the end of 2014. 

www.cfm.co.mz 

The handling ofcontainers inthe port of Mombasa cannot keep 

up with the growth inbox volumes. 

TheportofMombasahandled more than 

20 million tofgoods last year. The port 

of Dar esSalaam inTanzania handled 

475,000 teu in2012, 12.6% more goods 

than in the previous year. 

cd 

www.kpa.co.ke 

www.tanzaniaports.com 

Iberian options for 

Ethiopian Airlines 

Anew bilateral airfreight treaty has been 

concluded between Ethiopia and Spain. 

The director general of the Ethiopian 

aviation authority, colonel Wosenyeleh 

Hunegnaw, and the Spanish ambassador, 

Miguel Martinez, sealed the agreement 

with their signatures inAddis Abeba on 

19 February. 

The new treaty is associated with the 

hope that Ethiopian Airlines will beable 

to add to its 40destinations inAfrica, 

Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The 

connection from AddisAbeba to Madrid 

with astopover inRome has been tabled 

again, amongst many other projects. The 

link was originally scheduled to start on 

15 June 2013, but had been withdrawn 

again inthe meantime. 

With sixfull-freighters,amongst other 

units,Ethiopian Airlines is oneofthe biggest 

African airfreight carriers. InSeptember 

2012 the airline had announced 

plans toconstruct anew airfreight terminal 

with an annual capacity of approximately 

1.2 million t,atthe airport 

in Addis Abeba. 

www.ethiopianairlines.com 

Photo: Kenya Ports Authority

40 North and LatinAmerica International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

Another US-American 

affair to cherish 

Fate or strategy No date could have fitted 

better than 14February, chosen by 

AMR, the owner of American Airlines 

and based in Fort Worth TX, and US 

Airways (based in Tempe AZ) to announce 

their new liaison. In the western 

hemisphere Valentine’sDay is considered 

the best day to show your love (see also 

page 16 of this issue). Only time will tell 

whether the new merger within the Oneworld 

alliance is for life, whether itisa 

genuine love affair or rather amarriage 

of convenience. It is the third major deal 

in the USaviation industry in the past 

five years, following inthe footsteps of 

agreements by Atlanta-based Delta with 

Northwest in 2008 andbyChicago-based 

United with Continental in2010. 

Not animportant freight player 

The merged entity will be headed by 

Doug Parker, USAirways’ current CEO. 

From the third quarter of2013 onwards 

the company will continue to be called 

Alaska to improve 

highway safety 

The USstate of Alaska is set totake steps 

to improve its highway safety corridors. 

Thereare four designated safety corridors 

in Alaska, and serious crashes are down 

by 53% there, thanks toeducation, enforcement, 

engineering and emergency 

services. State governor Sean Parnell said 

that «it’s our mission toreduce accident 

and injury rates to zero.» Alaska will receive 

about USD 150 million infederal 

fundsoverthree yearsfor safety improvements. 

The state’s department of public 

safety will procure two 3D laser measuring 

and mapping instruments to reduce 

highway closure times during accident 

investigations. www.dot.alaska.gov 

The smaller carrier US Airways (on the left) is merging with American Airlines. 

American Airlines, provided the move is 

sanctioned by the authorities and owners 

(72% AMR). Itwill bethe largest airline 

worldwide by fleet(945units,withanother 

599 onorder), by the number ofdaily 

flights (6,700 to336 destinations in 56 

countries) and by passenger kilometres. 

The new corporation ismuch less favourably 

positioned inthe cargo sector. 

It currently only deploys 66 long-haul 

aircraft, with 79onorder. The larger of 

the two new partners, American, carried 

394,000 tofairfreightinits belly holdsin 

2011 –placing it 27th worldwide.The new 

entity’s international competitors donot 

need to be unduly perturbed yet, asthe 

US ports start 

the new year well 

Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two 

largest ports in the USA, together posted 

a5%rise inimport container handling 

and 1%growth onthe export side in January 

this year.The port of Long Beachin 

particular registered ahuge jump inbox 

volumes, lifting 536,236teu in themonth 

under review, the largest figure recorded 

sinceJanuary 2007.The port said that the 

positive monthlyresultwas duetothe deployment 

of larger ships, especially MSC 

units with capacities of around 13,000 

teu. MSC’s and CMA CGM’s dedicated 

terminals also contributed substantially 

to the positive developments. (nauticus) 

www.polb.com 

new airline will remain focused onthe 

USAand on North America. Theairline’s 

newstructure will concentrateonthe old 

and new US Airways hubs inCharlotte, 

New York La Guardia, Philadelphia, 

Phoenix and Washington DC, aswell as 

on American Airlines’s centres inDallas, 

New York JFK, Los Angeles, Miami and 

Chicago. 

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Grieg Star adds South American links. 

The Norwegian shipping line Grieg Star is set 

to expand its scheduled services tothe west 

coast ofSouth America via Bremen from 

March this year. The line’s existing connection 

to the USeast coast and to the Gulf of 

Mexico will be extended by amonthly sailing 

to South America through the Panama 

Canal. The ships deployed inthe trade are 

suitable for breakbulk and project cargo 

consignments as well as for vehicles. Regular 

calls will be made at Bremen, Baltimore, 

Mobile, Houston, Altamira, Guayaquil, Callao 

and San Antonio. www.griegstar.com 

Less jobs. US airlines had 582,401 full 

and part-time employees on their books in 

December 2012, oralmost 5,000 less than in 

comparison with the like-for-like period last 

year. The official figures released by the bureau 

of transportation statistics showed that 

Federal Express was the largest employer, 

with acompany record 161,567 employees, 

followed byUnited (88,185) and Delta 

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41 

The motors, manufactured by Berna and Saurer, amongst others, are still in running order, even with 

so many years under their belts and even more kilometres ontheir clocks. 

Feldschlösschen opensvintage car exhibition 

100 years of liquid loads 

Anewly-established vintage car exhibition 

of commercial vehicles used by the 

Feldschlösschen brewery was opened in 

Rheinfelden (Switzerland) in February. 

On 8February 1876 the first beer was 

brewed in the Feldschlösschen brewery. 

In the beginning the distribution of the 

liquid producewas carried outexclusively 

by horse-drawn carriages and trains. In 

1913 thecompany,based in averyfavourable 

transport location, acquired its first 

lorry. Numerous vehicles, collected over 

the years, are now being presented inan 

exhibition to mark theanniversary of the 

company and its long tradition. 

More than 20 historical vehicles have 

now become aninherent part ofthe tour 

of the brewery, which Thomas Metzger, 

the Feldschlösschen chief executive officer 

atthe time, described as «the most 

beautiful castle in Switzerland» in the 

year of the firm’s 135th anniversary in 

Photo: Feldschlösschen 

2011. The beer wagons, which represent 

acentury of commercial vehicle production, 

are parked inahall inwhich they 

used to fill the beer into barrels, directly 

behind the dignified brewing house. 

From the first motorised delivery truck 

(1917) through to tractors and a modern 

emission-free lorry, the units are all 

parked under one roof. 

ACO 2 -neutral delivery service 

The legendary «thirst force», which was 

used as afire engine inthe Italian army 

between 1914 and 1918, can also beadmired. 

Later this special fire engine, with 

its beer ontap, caused quite afurore and 

amerry atmosphere at many an event. 

Lately Feldschlösschen became the 

first brewery in Switzerland to supply 

its customers with beer through aCO 2 - 

neutral service, calculating and then 

completely compensating the emissions 

that are caused bydeliveries. Since 2007 

Feldschlösschen has reduced the CO 2 

emitted byits use ofgas and fossil fuels 

by 28%. In the future, more reductions 

are planned. 

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42 ATime for Reflection /Advertisers’Index International Transport Journal 09-10 2013 

The distortions of hindsight 

«They stoned himbyerectingastatue inhis honour.» 

Stanislav Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and aphorist. 

Lookingback onthe past is generally a 

cosy undertaking. Notonlybecause,in 

hindsight, every event appearsincontrovertible 

and is thereforeeasytopass 

judgement on, but alsobecause theintellectual 

worldlikewise appearswellorganised 

in retrospect. This is ahuman gift we 

should be thankful for–but nevertheless 

amounts tooutwittingourselves. 

Hence, realityisfrequently concocted 

where memories of great events areconcerned. 

It is well knownthatthe French 

guards at thebattleofWaterloochose 

to be takenprisoner rather than betray 

their proud imageofthemselvesbybeingkilled. 

Warner Brothers’ response to 

the advent ofthe talkieswas «who the 

hell would want to hear actors speaking 

anyway» Gottlieb Daimler,the German 

inventor, estimatedthe totalworldwide 

demand forautomobiles at onemillion 

vehicles, giventhe shortage of available 

chauffeurs. 

It is naturallyverytemptingtomake 

romantic adjustmentstothe past when 

lookingbackatitwithone eyeoncurrent 

events. Heroesfight to thedeath, industriesmove 

withthe times, andinventors 

arevisionaries.Not necessarily alwaysthe 

case,ofcourse –but at least it sounds good. 

It is even worse for those individualswho 

areendowed by posterity with the weighty 

attribute ofgreatness.Eventoday,you can 

sparkafurious reaction from almostanyone 

by mentioning, forinstance, President John 

F. Kennedy’squestionable attitude to marital 

fidelity,the thoroughly inadequate personal 

hygiene of Frederick the Great ofPrussia, or 

popiconWhitney Houston’sneglect of her 

owndaughter. 

It is obviously not enoughfor such individualstopossess 

extraordinary talent, butthey 

also have to be elevated to the statusof 

luminaries. JakobBosshart, aSwiss writer livinginthe 

early 20th century,was well aware 

of this factwhen he said that «anythingis 

forgivable inahero–justnot aweakness.» 

Psychologists, meanwhile, have studiedthe 

phenomenonand identifiederroneous retrospection 

andmemory designascharacteristicofthe 

human species. Afterdiscovering 

theoutcome of events,people systematically 

make false recollections of theirearlier predictions.Ifyou 

guessed that alarge basin 

was 50%full ofwater andare then told it 

was only 30%full, youwill insist that 

your guess was 40%. In otherwords, afterthe 

eventyou adjust your recollection 

of your original estimate to approximate 

the actual outcome more closely. So, the 

next time anopponentorsceptic congratulates 

youonasuccessful project with 

the words«Ialwaysknew you could do 

it», think nothing of it –nobody ever gets 

the betteroftheir ownmemory design. 

The notoriousconcept of retrospective 

determinism providesanother useful 

crutch forwhich those who always want 

to be rightshouldbevery thankful. The 

philosopher Henri Bergsoncoined the 

term to describe our tendency toview 

any outcome as an inevitable and entirely 

natural course ofevents, even though, at 

the time, anotheroutcome was equally 

conceivable. 

Andifthatisstill notenough foryou, 

there isalwaysthe delightful option of 

turninghistory entirely onits head. Take 

encouragement from the words of the 

satirist Ephraim Kishon –«don’t lose 

heart, RomanEmperor Titus proclaimed, 

as the JewsconqueredRome.» 


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43 

Becausethe logical thing is notalways the rightthing 

Studying logistics 

This autumn the sixth HF Logistics certified technician programme atthe ABB technical 

school will start. This is the only course at technical college level with aninternational 

orientation in all ofSwitzerland. What does this further training offer and who benefits 

from it Aninterview with Beat Schlumpf, director of studies. 

Mr Schlumpf, what is theorientation of thelogisticstraining 

course atthe ABB technical school 

It is specifically geared towards international logistics and supply 

chain managers andofferssix highly-practicalvocationalsemesters 

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Our course represents the highest level of logistics training 

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and men with apractical orientation an excellent foundation for a 

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Does this mean that technical college graduates can study 

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Exactly. As of this year, itwill be possible to study for aMaster in 

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nuts! Because the obvious and Director of studies Beat Schlumpf, heading 

self-evident are not necessarily for the top with his students. 

alwaysthe right andbestthingtodointhe managementofinternational goods flows. 

And where are the technical college graduates later employed 

We train logisticians who think and act comprehensively, who can act in acustomeroriented 

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You offer abroad training course with an emphasis on a 

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Interview mit Halit Antalan, 

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7 Gebrüder Weiss 

Shipping acable car toMexico 

9 Blue Water Shipping 

Ajack-up rig from the UAE to Russia 

13 Röhlig-Grindrod 

Mining equipment for Mozambique 

CaytransBBC strengthens 

services to Latin America 

The multipurpose vessel «BBC Ocean» now plies 

its trade between Houston, South America, the 

Caribbean and Central America for BBC Chartering 

and Dan-Gulf Shipping. 

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Aship for the Qatari coast guard 

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Refinery equipment from Tarragona 

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Mining drill needed in Siberia 

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Tram to St Petersburg in two days 

Icebreakers deployed to 

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The Szczecin-based heavylift specialist Best 

Logistics cooperated closely with inland 

waterway authorities to ship reactors upthe 

river Oder –despite itbeing iced over. 

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Creating a new wind farm 

Vlissingen is the operations base 

Vattenfall, a leading energy company 

and owner of the Dutch energy provider 

Nuon, has started building work on a 

large offshore wind farm. The electricity 

output will amount to a total of 288 MW. 

The first components have already been 

transported from the Bow terminal in 

Vlissingen. 

Construction work has begun on the 

giant DanTysk wind farm on the edge 

of a German-Danish economic zone, 

70 km west of Sylt (Germany). The first 

four wind turbine piles have already been 

transported from the Bow terminal in 

Vlissingen. A joint venture called Dan- 

Tysk Offshore Wind has been founded 

to implement the project. The enterprise 

is 51% owned by Vattenfall and 49% by 

Stadtwerke München. Vattenfall is responsible 

for building and operating the 

wind farm, which will consist of 80 wind 

turbines capable of providing 400,000 

households with environment-friendly 

electricity. This saves some 580,000 t of 

CO 2 , an amount equivalent to a 2.7 billion 

reduction in car kilometres – a distance 

that is nearly 70 times the equator’s 

circumference. The overall investment in 

the wind farm will top the EUR 1 billion 

mark. 

«Seafox 5» in service 

The steel piles are being transported by 

the Seafox 5. The 151 m long vessel is also 

being used to install the foundations for 

the wind turbines in the North Sea. The 

ship’s crane is able to hoist a load of up 

to 1,200 t. 

The foundation piles will be rammed 

into the seabed to a depth of 32 m. During 

installation underwater noise will be 

carefully kept to a minimum to protect 

the marine environment. If all goes according 

to plan, the wind farm will go 

into service in 2014. 

Dutch to build the substation 

The DanTysk substation, which will be 

set up near Rotterdam, is to be built by 

a consortium comprising Strukton and 

Hollandia, who will deliver the facility 

The Bow terminal in Vlissingen. 

this year. Energy from the wind farm’s 

80 turbines will be collected at the substation 

and sent to the transmission network 

operator TenneT’s SylWin alpha power 

transfer station. There the power will be 

A ship loader for Richards Bay 

The Sandvik ship loader on board Jumbo Shipping’s «Fairpartner». 

On 16 January a R140M Sandvik ship 

loader, accompanied by spare parts 

and accessories, was unloaded from the 

11,350dwt ship the Fairpartner, which is 

143 m long, 26 m wide and is operated 

by the Dutch heavylift shipping company 

Jumbo Shipping, onto the quayside 

at Richards Bay (South Africa). The consignee 

was the African terminal operator 

Transnet Port Terminals. 

The new ship loader for handling dry 

bulk (ore, minerals, etc.) will replace older 

equipment at the Transnet terminal. Although 

the new unit was built in China, it 

is the first ship loader to be developed by 

the South African firm Sandvik Mining 

and Construction. 

converted to low-loss direct current. From 

there a 205 km long underwater cable will 

carry the electricity to consumers. 

it 

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The port and weather conditions for 

discharging the ship loader were almost 

perfect, as there was no significant swell 

and the wind was manageable. Jumbo’s 

special forklift was used to hoist the load 

and place it onto rails on the quayside. 

The heavylift shipping company Jumbo 

operates a fleet of twelve special heavylift 

ships with a hoisting capacity of 500 to 

1,800t. This year the carrier will add a 

new generation of ships with a record 

breaking lifting capacity 3,000t. Two of 

the firm’s J-1800 class ships are equipped 

with a DP2 positioning system, enabling 

them to provide both transport and offshore 

installation services. 

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7 

Gebrüder Weiss 

A cable car to Mexico 

The Austrian transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss recently fulfilled two 

rather unusual heavylift contracts. The firm was required to forward a cable car to 

Mexico and ship a helicopter to Georgia. 

Gebrüder Weiss (GW) was recently mandated 

by the engineering company Bartholet 

Maschinenbau to forward an entire 

cable car system from Switzerland and 

the Netherlands to Puebla (Mexico) via 

Frankfurt Hahn airport (Germany). The 

government in Puebla will use the aerial 

tramway to transport tourists. 

The customer decided that its shipment 

had to be forwarded as airfreight because 

of the short delivery deadline and 

tight time schedule. The rather unusual 

order caused some astonishment, and not 

only on the runway at Frankfurt Hahn. 

Marc Kirchberger, GW’s airfreight export 

manager, said that «loading a complete 

cable car into wide-bodied freighters is a 

rare occurrence.» 

Therefore advance logistical planning 

was all the more important. He added that 

«packing the goods safely and loading the 

cargo aeroplanes properly were the main 

logistical challenges.» At the airport in 

Puebla, a special crane was required to 

hoist the enormous elements onto several 

trucks that conveyed the equipment to 

the construction site. 

The special consignment, which was forwarded 

on four charter flights operated 

by Boeing B747F equipment, consisted of 

two gondolas measuring 4.5 m x 2.5 m 

x 3 m, steel components for the stations 

on the mountainside and in the valley, 

as well as three cable pylons, each weighing 

35 t. 

In addition, Gebrüder Weiss transported 

track and haul cables weighing 100 t 

in all. Some items were as long as 13.8 m. 

GW required 25 trucks and three sprinters 

to transfer the cable car elements to 

Frankfurt Hahn airport. 

Helicopter trucked to Georgia 

GW was recently responsible for shipping 

a helicopter by road through six countries 

to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on behalf 

of the firm Wucher Helikopter. The client 

will use the EUR 1.5 million equipment to 

operate heli-skiing trips in Gudauri, a holiday 

resort in the Caucasus approximately 

100 km north of Tbilisi. 

The managers who were in charge of 

the helicopter project chose to send it 

Photo: Gebrüder Weiss 

One of the two gondolas being loaded at 

Frankfurt Hahn airport. 

by road for cost reasons. The helicopter 

would have used twice as much fuel for 

the 3,000 km flight than a fully laden 

truck on the overland route. Furthermore, 

safety equipment and avalanche 

rescue gear, 40 pairs of skis, 25 airbag 

backpacks as well as a tank station and 

diverse spare parts were sent with the helicopter 

as well. 

Before the aircraft could be loaded on a 

mega trailer the landing skids and the rotor 

blades had to be dismantled. The costs 

of conveying the equipment on a special 

semi-trailer would have been significantly 

higher. The trip through Austria, Slovenia, 

Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey took 

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Lamprell Energy continues to bank on Blue Water Shipping 

Second jack-up rig on its way 

Lamprell, a leading corporation in the field of diversified engineering and 

contracting services that serves the onshore and offshore oil and gas 

industries as well as the renewable energy sector, is again banking on the 

shipping and logistics group Blue Water Shipping as its logistics partner. 

Following the successful delivery of 

EDC’s Neptune jack-up rig from the 

United Arab Emirates to Russia in 2012, 

Lamprell Energy has again selected the 

Esbjerg-based Danish shipping and logistics 

group Blue Water Shipping as its 

preferred transport partner to deliver a 

LeTourneau S116E jack-up rig from the 

Hamriyah yard to Russia. 

Decades of experience 

Kevin Isles, Lamprell Energy’s executive 

vice-president, pointed out that his company 

«selected Blue Water Shipping due 

to its competitive bid, but more importantly 

also due to its many years of experience 

with large projects in the Caspian 

Sea area, including the transportation of 

rigs and other large modules.» 

The latest contract will cover the transportation 

of a dismantled jack-up rig from 

Hamriyah via the Volga-Don river system 

to a yard in Russia. 

The transport task covers four partshipments 

and will commence in summer 

2013, and is expected 

to be completed in spring 

2014. The project will exceed 

100,000 cbm overall 

and will see lifts of up to 

1,000t and modules of up 

to 17.35 m passing along 

the Volga-Don River. 

This is the second jackup 

rig which Lamprell is 

building for the Eurasia 

Drilling Company (EDC), the largest 

independent drilling company in Russia. 

With this new rig, EDC intends to further 

expand its offshore drilling activities 

in the Caspian Sea. 

Limitations of the river system’s locks 

Blue Water Shipping is pleased that both 

Lamprell Energy and the Eurasia Drilling 

Company have placed their trust in BWS. 

Over the years, Blue Water Shipping has 

become one of the players that is most 

frequently called upon to transport giant 

and hence rather unwieldy constructions 

Lamprell and Blue Water Shipping have once again collaborated 

successfully. 

to the Caspian Sea through the Russian 

river system. 

Some of the consignments handled by 

BWS have been drilling platforms and 

floating storage offloading units (FSOs), 

special tank vessels for the storage of oil 

at sea. Platforms and FSOs are built in 

shipyards outside the Caspian Sea region. 

Due to the limited breadth and draught 

of the river system’s locks, the platforms 

have to be separated into smaller sections, 

and then re-assembled upon arrival in the 

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Strengthening its Caribbean service 

New ship for CaytransBBC 

DanGulf and BBC Chartering expanded 

CaytransBBC’s fleet by adding the 

«BBC Ocean» in midFebruary. 

BBC Chartering and Dan-Gulf Shipping 

jointly announced recently that the BBC 

Ocean joined CaytransBBC’s fleet in mid- 

February. The BBC Ocean is a 6,150 dwt 

’tween-deck multipurpose vessel with 

329,450 cbf bale capacity featuring a 120 t 

lifting capacity. The BBC Ocean is operated 

by CaytransBBC, which offers a 

weekly breakbulk liner service from Houston 

and Mobile to the northern coast 

of South America, the Caribbean and 

Central America. 

Steady growth 

Mac Bruton, Dan-Gulf’s vice-president in 

charge of sales and marketing, explained 

that «the larger vessel and its greater capacity 

allow the line to provide higher 

levels of service to its clients. Over and 

above this, adding a larger vessel to our 

fleet reflects our positive outlook on the 

market and is a direct result of a steady 

and healthy growth in our services. We 

believe that the BBC Ocean will allow us 

to offer better options for larger parcels 

to and from the northern coast of South 

America.» 

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The «BBC Ocean» has strengthened CaytransBBC’s fleet. 

CaytransBBC is a joint venture between 

BBC Chartering & Logistics, and Caytrans 

Project Services (Americas). The 

CaytransBBC service is managed by 

Dan-Gulf Shipping. 

The companies said that with sales 

jointly handled by BBC Chartering USA 

and Dan-Gulf, the service has enjoyed 

growth over the years, thanks to its customer 

service, its professional operations 

and its competitive pricing. 

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An exceptional logistics solution in Mozambique 

Serving a huge mining project 

Africa’s resources are increasingly being discovered by foreign investors. In Mozambique the Irish mining corporation Kenmare 

Resources is expanding the Moma titanium ore mine. The GermanSouth African joint venture RöhligGrindrod will handle the 

project cargo transportation of up to 100,000 t of material for the mine by the end of 2012. 

Mozambique is one of the fastest growing 

economies in the world. In the last 

few years the Southeast African country 

has achieved remarkable growth, largely 

fuelled by massive projects financed by 

foreign firms. One such project is the 

Moma mine, which is in the province 

of Nampula on Mozambique’s northeastern 

coast. It is run by Ireland’s stockexchange-listed 

company Kenmare Resources. 

Each year, about 800,000 t of the 

titanium ores ilmenite and rutile as well 

as of the by-product zirconium are mined 

there. The titanium compounds are used 

in pigments, paper, and plastics, amongst 

other things; zirconium is an opacifier in 

ceramics, steel, and metal casting. 

Heavylift in the wet season 

Further expansion of the mine has been 

planned for a long time already. It represents 

quite a task for a logistics service 

provider, since there are no god roads in 

the region and the shipment was made 

up largely of heavylift cargo, including 

some extremely heavy parts and several 

out-of-gauge items. 

To top it all off, it had to be handled 

mid-sea. The logistics processes became 

even more challenging during the wet 

season, when 80% of the annual rainfall 

comes down on the Southeast African 

coastal lowlands from November to 

April. 

40 years of experience in Africa 

100,000 t of cargo had to be delivered 

from suppliers in Australia, the USA and 

South Africa to the Moma mine – not 

only in the right order but also according 

to a defined schedule. 

Röhlig-Grindrod, a joint venture of 

the German freight forwarder Röhlig 

and its South African partner Grindrod, 

won the contract for this job. The group’s 

proven expertise was what swung the dial 

in its way in the end. 

The mining equipment was unloaded from the heavylift unit onto barges in midsea, as there was not 

a suitable port available on Mozambique’s northeastern coast. 

Ian Strydom, the executive director of 

Röhlig-Grindrod, explained that «our 

qualified project cargo logistics team in 

South Africa and Mozambique has years 

of experience in handling project shipments 

and heavy lift cargo. We’ve been 

working in this area of Africa for more 

than 40 years alone, and are used to dealing 

with challenges – sometimes apparently 

unsolvable – to satisfy our customers’ 

special requirements.» 

Project plans vs starting work 

Difficult projects such as this one call 

for careful planning. No detail can be 

neglected. Disregarding even one aspect 

could cause the whole project to fail. At 

the beginning of 2010 Röhlig-Grindrod 

presented Kenmare Resources with a convincing 

tailor-made programme. 

Feasibility and road studies, consolidation 

and packing plans, multimodal 

transportation management, exact stowage 

planning, statistical calculations, 

risk management, handling, choice of 

appropriate loading equipment, personal 

loading and unloading supervision, 

documentation and customs clearance, 

and even web-based tracking and tracing 

options were included in the highly 

complex project plan. The undertaking 

finally began in December 2010. Several 

oversized components were involved, for 

example 15 pontoons weighing almost 

107 t each and 48 m long, 5.4 m wide 

and 3.8 m high. 

The biggest single part was a 10 m high 

surge bin with a diameter of 7.5 m. Precise 

stowage plans had to be worked out for 

it. But before anything was delivered, all 

the oversized and heavylift cargo from 

the various suppliers was consolidated at 

Röhlig-Grindrod’s South African logistics 

supply centres in Johannesburg and 

Durban. 

Transhipment on the beach 

The sea route from the ports of Richard 

Bay and Durban to the site was finally 

chosen for shipment from South Africa 

to Mozambique. All in all, 20 heavylift 

vessels were used to transport the order. 

At the coast, Röhlig-Grindrod’s cargo 

was loaded onto barges, which were then 

put on seven-axle trailers with a capacity 

of 150 t to cover the last 6 km from 

the beach to the mine, where they were 

delivered sequentially. 

The entire project was completed by 

December 2012, when the last consignment 

of the more than 100,000 t of 

freight arrived at the destination. 

continued on page 15 

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continued from page 13 

Transporting heavylift and project cargo 

units is one of the most demanding kinds 

of logistics service and requires particularly 

intensive planning. Each project is 

unique, which is why an owner-run company 

such as Röhlig, founded in Bremen 

(Germany) in 1852, is able to provide 

individual solutions in all areas of industrial 

plant, infrastructure projects, mining, 

petroleum and energy. 

Röhlig’s worldwide network of experts, 

which encompasses more than 2,000 employees 

working in 140 offices located 

in important cities worldwide, has been 

gathering experience in the field for more 

than 40 years. 

Development in and around the mine 

Kenmare has been addressing the issue 

of improving the living conditions of the 

population living around the Moma titanium 

mine – a total of no less than approximately 

10,000 people – through an 

organisation called the Kenmare Moma 

Development Association (KMDA), 

which was founded in 2004. 

With the support of national and 

international partner institutions the 

KMDA has helped found a number of 

small businesses in around six villages 

surrounding the mine, and helped them 

generate annual incomes of approximately 

USD 150,000 with the production and 

sale of eggs, poultry farming and vegetable 

market gardening. Over and above 

this KMDA has also established a mobile 

clinic, four new schools and installed 

water pumps, amongst other things. 

A bottom-up strategy 

For this initiative Kenmare Resources, 

the owner and operator of the Moma 

titanium mine, has been awarded the 

President’s award for the best international 

corporate social responsibility 

programme by the Irish chamber of 

commerce and industry, in collaboration 

with the Irish government’s department 

of community affairs. 

The fact that the KMDA started its 

local development work even before the 

mining operations began was cited as being 

particularly noteworthy in this context, 

as was the fact that the organisation 

pursues a bottom-up strategy in its work. 

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Handling yachts and catamarans is a chapter of its own in the project cargo book. 

Yachts and catamarans – rather special project cargo 

The Turkish company called Project 

Cargo & Yacht Transport specialises in 

handling yachts, catamarans and other 

special maritime vessels. 

Last December the company’s expert 

team was in action again, undeterred 

by hostile weather conditions and going 

ahead with operations on rainy and 

windy days, accomplishing the loading 

and unloading of two yachts. 

A bit bigger – but still easy 

The first unit, a catamaran, weighed 17 t 

and was 13 m long, 5.6 m high and 6.4 m 

wide. It had arrived in the port of Diliskelesi 

in Istanbul from Antwerp and was 

offloaded from the vessel directly into 

the sea. 

The second ship was a mite bigger, 

weighing 23.5 t, its length being 18.3 m, 

its height 5.5 m and its width 4.9 m. This 

one was successfully loaded onto a vessel 

in the port of Derince in Istanbul and was 

shipped off to Doha. The vessel will be 

deployed in the fleet of the coastal guard 

of the Gulf state of Qatar. 

Destined for China 

Transporting yachts and other large ships 

is the core expertise of the Turkish enterprise 

Project Cargo & Yacht Transport, 

which is headquartered in Istanbul. It was 

recently asked to handle a Turkish yacht 

weighing 41 t, with a length of 24 m, a 

height of 10.2 m and a width of 5.9 m. 

It was loaded in the port of Derince, 

in northern Turkey, and was destined 

to be shipped to the port located in the 

Hong Kong special administrative zone 

in China. 

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Two cement mills hauled to the Indonesian hills 

Heavylift consignments headed for Indonesia. 

Indonesia, Southeast Asia largest economy, 

is growing rapidly, and needs lots of 

cement to sustain its development. The 

Jakarta-based company Rolitrans International, 

a heavylift and super heavylift 

transport specialist, has been commissioned 

to transport two brand-new cement 

mills that will produce 2.5 million t 

of cement annually from various points 

around the world to the islands of Java 

and Sulawesi. Stephan Behrmann, the 

company’s project and sales manager, 

told the media that «we put our expertise 

in the ocean and barge transport segment 

into action as soon as we secured 

the transport task.» Multiple heavylift 

charter shipments, hundreds of containers 

and dozens of barges arrived on time 

thanks to Rolitrans once again showing 

its capacity to handle a large heavylift 

project. 

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Altius transporting refinery components 

Swinging high to Le Havre 

Spanish heavylift transportation specialists 

withstood some of the European winter’s 

most adverse weather conditions recently 

to haul 20 large refinery components from 

northeastern Spain to the English Channel. 

The project cargo division of logistics provider 

Altius, based in the Spanish capital 

Madrid, is handling the transportation of 

20 large refinery modules from Tarragona 

(Spain) to a refinery in Le Havre (France). 

It is not only the total of about 30,000 

freight tonnes that makes the transport 

task from the Mediterranean to the 

Channel rather a challenge, but the size 

of the individual components also makes 

operations more delicate. Enrique Rodriguez, 

the Altius commercial manager, 

pointed out that «it’s a very complicated 

operation, on account of the delicate construction 

of the modules. The operation 

also had to be carried out during a pretty 

bad spell of weather.» 

The initial road transport from the 

construction yard to the vessel, as well 

as the stretch to the final point of delivery 

after unloading, required the use of 

barges and self-propelled modular transport 

units (SPMTs). This task was subcontracted 

to heavylift solution specialists 

ALE and TPI. The loads were shipped 

on a Condock Shipping ro-ro vessel and 

on Combi Lift lo-lo ships. The engineering 

department of Altius participated actively 

in designing the lifting gear and in 

The freight, lashed to an SPMT, is rolled aboard the roro unit. 

lashing the load on board the ship for the 

heavy winter conditions at sea. 

In 1999 Altius was formed out of the 

Davila Group, which dates from 1917. 

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is Vigo, where it remains involved in the 

perishables segment, a sector in which it 

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Volga-Dnepr transports 100 t of mining equipment to Magadan 

Loading the huge drill in chilly Moscow offered a foretaste of the eastern Siberian conditions to follow. 

Photo: Volga-Dnepr 

In the middle of winter Russia’s Volga- 

Dnepr Airlines transported a 100 t shipment 

from Moscow to Magadan, a port 

city on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. 

The load contained a self-propelled Bauer 

BG28 drill that is used for mining. The 

AN-124-100 freighter flight from Moscow 

to the Russian Federation’s Far East 

was operated on behalf of the firm Stroymechanoservice. 

The company, a specialist 

for the development of gold mines, has 

a proven track record of investment projects 

and experience in the construction 

of production facilities and processing 

plants in severe climates, remote areas 

and at self-contained construction sites. 

Volga-Dnepr used the opportunity to 

load its Antonov freighter with auxiliary 

equipment in addition to the Bauer drill. 

The extra material will be used to support 

operations, maintain the drill and 

ensure uninterrupted performance at the 

production field. 

Congratulations from client 

The technical experts and the flight 

crew of Volga-Dnepr Airlines were congratulated 

by Stroymechanoservice representatives 

for their flawless preparation 

of the heavylift transport, as well as 

for the flight planning and operational 

support. 

www.volga-dnepr.com 

Bulky goods to the Black Sea 

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the fullfreighter 

airline that belongs to the Volga 

Dnepr group, recently carried out the first 

of a series of flights to Sochi (Russia). ABC’s 

Boeing B747400 flight carried sports equipment 

from Frankfurt (Germany) to the site of 

the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The cargoonly 

carrier expects increasing demand for 

the transport of heavy and oversized cargo 

to the region. www.airbridgecargo.com 

Nigerian oil industry feeds heavylift traffic 

The Luxembourg-based cargo-only airline 

Cargolux is adding the airport in 

Port Harcourt, on the Niger river delta in 

southern Nigeria, to its African network 

on 5 March. The metropolis, with more 

than 1 million inhabitants, fits perfectly 

into Cargolux’s timetable as Port Harcourt, 

which is famed as an oil city, will 

require more direct connections because 

of its geopolitical importance and on account 

of growing demand from the regional 

oil and gas industry. The Cargolux 

jumbos (B747-400Fs) are equipped with 

nose-doors and therefore predestined for 

flying heavy and outsized goods for these 

industries. 

Lagos (Nigeria)-based Jedidiah Air also 

operates services on behalf of the Nigerian 

oil and gas industry. In order to 

enhance its flight offer with Bombardier 

freighters, the carrier has established a 

joint venture with the Canadian charter 

and ACMI specialist Voyageur Airways. 

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AsstrA 

Long trams to St Petersburg 

The international transport and logistics holding AsstrA recently 

transported three new trams manufactured in Belarus by truck 

from Minsk to St Petersburg. 

Oleg Germanovich, the CEO of AsstrA 

Forwarding, said that «the first transportation 

jobs began at the end of 2012, in consultation 

with the manufacturer Belkommunmash, 

and will continue this year. 

Together with our sub-holding AsstrA 

Transport, which provided us with its own 

units, we started operations from Minsk to 

St Petersburg. The transportations of the 

oversized cargo required that we study the 

route and obtain the necessary approval 

from the municipal authorities and the 

road services involved.» 

The transport took two days. The company 

had to take structural features of the 

cargo into consideration, such as the fact 

that a tram consisted of three sections, 

and thus had to organise two trucks to 

deliver one tram. Oleg Grebenko, AsstrA 

Transport’s CEO, said that his company 

«used a large-capacity vehicle with an 

open area and loading height of 1 m. The 

height of the carriage exceeded 50 cm, so 

we needed special approval to transport it 

as well as special vehicles equipped with 

a device to measure the height of a road 

bridge while passing under it.» 

Experience plus presence 

The Belarusian company Belkommunmash, 

one of the leading vehicle manufacturers 

in the CIS, mandated AsstrA 

with the job because the service provider 

has a fleet of its own vehicles, as well as 

offices in Minsk and St Petersburg, thus 

enabling it to monitor the project closely. 

Photo: AsstrA 

Parts of the trams being prepared for transportation 

to St Petersburg. 

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Transporting reactors between Poland and Germany 

Hampered mainly by iced-over waterways 

Best Logistics, a Polish logistics service provider that specialises in project cargo activities and heavylift and oversized transportation 

options, carried out a rather special inland waterway transportation job this winter. One challenge was the 7.5 m height of the consignment. 

This problem was easily solved, with the aid of 500 t of gravel as additional ballast. But how to combat the climate 

A barge sailing down the long and calm river Oder in November contrasts starkly with the icebreaker needed in January. 

Photos: Best Logistics 

The Polish port of Szczecin and the Germany 

border city of Schwedt are 60 km 

apart and are connected by the navigable 

river Oder, making that inland waterway 

an ideal transport route for large and 

heavy freight – such as six reactors that 

arrived in the maritime port at the mouth 

of the river Oder recently, ready for onforwarding. 

The main problem that arose concerned 

the advent of winter. The shipment 

was originally scheduled for completion 

in December, but due to the delay 

in production the transport task had to be 

performed at the end January – in severe 

winter conditions. 

The inland waterways in the region 

were closed, due to the fact that they were 

iced over. The ambient temperature oscillated 

between –10 and –15°C. But there 

was no time to wait for better weather. 

The erection schedule at the site for the 

delivery of the reactors was pressing and 

an ad hoc delivery was urgently required. 

The job was successfully completed in 

close cooperation with the Polish and 

The Freight Co – 30 years on 

Patrick Dick, managing director of The 

Freight Co, a Bangkok-based project 

cargo service provider, returned to his 

roots recently, three decades after he 

transported the components of a large 

hydroelectric power station to Rangoon 

(now called Yangon), then the capital of 

Burma. Now the kingdom of Thailand 

has gifted its western neighbour two 

150 MW power stations, and the manager 

is again at hand to transport one of 

German inland waterway authorities. The 

two inland barges deployed were hooked 

up to icebreakers and reached the port of 

Schwedt safely and on time. 

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them. 30 years ago Burma’s international 

isolation represented the main hurdle. 

But the main economic metropolis of 

the country that is now called Myanmar 

has never seen such a complex heavylift 

transport job, which required elaborate 

negotiations with ministries so that the 

vessel was allowed to dock at two separate 

ports in the city and unload its consignments 

of more than 200 t each. 

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Joint venture with aSingaporean shipping line 

East meets west 

The family-managed shipping firm OXL, which isactive inthe project 

cargo business, recently entered into ajoint venture with the 

Singapore-based shipping line Hanssy. 

The Belgian carrier OXL recently opened anew chapter in its 30-year 

history. Having completed the takeover of all ofthe shares in the 

Oldendorff shipping line in 2010,itlaunchedanew jointventure with 

the Hanssy shipping line, from Singapore, in January 2013. Hanssy 

currently has eight multipurpose heavylift ships in its fleet, amongst 

others, and also offers breakbulk transportation. Thomas Daenens, 

OXL’scharter director andco-owner, told the ITJ that «aspartnerswe’re 

OXL (Zeebrugge) and Hanssy (Singapore) are teaming up. 

aiming toprovide regional alternatives and increase the 

frequencyofservices. Flamar will largelycover thewestern 

hemisphere, whilst Hanssy’s strong position in Asia 

will ensure excellent options there.» The Singaporean 

line,which also hasabranchinShanghai, shippedmore 

than 1.2 million cbm of freight from that port in2012. 

OXL deploys its nine chartered multipurpose units in 

customers’ projects in the Arab belt, from North Africa 

to Saudi Arabia, in West and South Africa, the Middle 

East and India. 

AChinese coordinator in Zeebrugge (Belgium) ensures 

that the partners are perfectly informed ofeach 

other’s activities and schedules, so that the two lines’ 

fleets can beoptimally deployed for customers. cd 

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Friderici Spécial SA 

Citius, altius, fortius! 

The Swiss shipping company Friderici 

Spécial, headquartered in the town of 

Tolochenaz near Morges, specialises in 

the transportation of heavylift and project 

cargo. The company is rich in tradition 

and can boast a history that goes back 

more than 120 years. 

Faster, higher, farther – the motto of 

the Olympic games is also well suited to 

the Swiss transport company Friderici 

Spécial. It is somehow fitting that the 

firm’s headquarters are just a few kilometres 

from the home of the International 

Olympic Committee in Lausanne. 

Inroads in Iran 

Friderici Spécial is a family-run company 

with a workforce of some 170 employees. 

Jean-Paul and André Friderici firmly hold 

the reins of company, which is the more 

than 120 years old, in their hands. They 

are the fifth generation of Fridericis to do 

so. In the years between 1975 and 1985, 

the gray and yellow Friderici trucks crisscrossed 

the Middle East from one end to 

the other. 

At first, the company used vehicles 

made by Henschel. The company’s drivers 

enjoyed a built-in sleeping alcove and 

a niche to prepare food built especially 

by Friderici. Later, Friderici switched to 

vehicles built by the US truck manufacturer 

Kenworth. At that time, Friderici 

was gathering its initial experience in 

The spectacular transport of a fouraxled Friderici tractor by cableway in the Valais alps was 

necessary because there were no roads to a highaltitude power plant. 

transporting steam generators, presses, 

and other outsized industrial equipment 

and machinery to Iran. 

Although those days are long gone, today 

Friderici trucks laden with heavylift 

cargo are plying the roads of Russia, Turkey 

and more recently the motorways of 

Armenia. Heavylift and project cargo 

shipments are one of Friderici’s most important 

specialities. 

Whether the company has the use of 

a paved road for a heavylift operation, 

or even in cases where no surfaced roads 

are available, the experienced team of 

specialists from Friderici finds and works 

out solutions to fit the bill. The shipment 

of four-axle tractors and seven-axle trailers 

via an aerial cableway in the Valais 

alps is a specific example that illustrates 

just how complex a heavylift transport 

operation can be. 

Heavy cargo a challenge Switzerland 

The Friderici vehicles had to be conveyed 

by aerial cableway to a location near the 

Valais winter sport area of Nendaz at 

an elevation of 2,500 metres above sea 

level, because there were no roads to the 

entrance of a large underground power 

Photos: Friderici 

Friderici Spécial transports all sorts of heavylift consignments, including transformers and massive valves on an unpaved road (on the right).


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plant, the location to which they had to 

be delivered. 

In general, transporting heavylift cargo 

and oversized freight in Switzerland 

is anything but a walk in the park. The 

country’s special topography and high 

building density makes transporting 

heavy cargo a real challenge in Switzerland. 

This was demonstrated recently when 

Friderici had to transport a 150 t transformer 

from the Rhine ports in Basel to 

Geneva. It was impossible to transport 

the heavy cargo on the Swiss motorway 

network, and Friderici was forced to carry 

out the delivery – over the distance of a 

mere 300 km – over the course of five 

nights. One fact about this shipment 

which is certainly worthy of note is that 

the transformer had to be delivered in 

a convoy that was 65 m long, 4 m wide, 

4.55 m high and weighed in at 350 t. 

Broshuis: More than 10 million km under its belt 

The independent suspension of the socalled 

SL series of the Dutch special 

vehicle manufacturer Broshuis was developed 

from a revolutionary new piece 

of equipment in the heavylift semi-trailer 

sector. SL stands for super-light and also 

for a larger range of loading heights. More 

than 10 million kmhave been successfully 

driven on Europe’s roads with this chassis 

suspension developed by Broshuis. 

The fact that the SL trailer represents a 

novelty in the transport sector is also confirmed 

when looking at the list of customers. 

It features the names of well-known 

heavylift forwarders, such as Peter Karry, 

Torben Rafn, Pfaff, Nutgeren, Vlastuin, 

Hudson, Martrain Heavy Haulage, Westdijk 

Exceptioneel Transport, Collet, Sven 

Gläser, Friderici Spécial, Müller or Grass 

Spedition These heavylift and project 

cargo transport companies have several 

special vehicles with independent suspension 

in their fleets. 

Very low follow-up costs 

Experience gathered in customer tests 

shows that the SL trailer is essential highperformance 

equipment, and it is also 

characterised by low follow-up costs, the 

company said. For instance, SL trailers 

drive more than 100,000 km on the first 

set of tyres without any maintenance. 

According to Broshuis, the SL trailer 

will be consistently enhanced in the future. 

In the meantime, several semi-trailers 

from the 100 t series are now in use 

all across Europe. 

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Many challenges 

Although Friderici’s drivers are experienced 

at dealing with heavylift and oversized 

cargo, they are called upon time 

and time again to react flexibly and come 

up with individual, custom-tailored solutions. 

Such was the case when Friderici 

had to carry out a heavylift transport 

right through the middle of downtown 

Lausanne on a Friday night. 

Not only did the company’s personnel 

have to pass through numerous traffic 

circles without damaging anything, but 

they had to disassemble and reassemble 

numerous traffic signs along the route. A 

job like that requires a very long period 

of advance preparation, numerous route 

reconnaissance trips prior to the actual 

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A perfect example of this was a recent 

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heavylift convoy where the clearance between 

the bottom of the bridge and the 

top of the convoy was just 5cm. 

Last year Friderici Spécial completed 

some other spectacular heavylift cargo 

shipments. Among the notable examples 

were the transport of a 410t generator 

and the painstaking movement of a 57 t 

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From Spain to India 

Huge heat exchanger on tour 

Photos: CERL 

CERL, a French logistics and transport enterprise which 

specialises in the project cargo business, recently organised 

the transportation for a French customer of a heat 

exchanger manufactured in Spain. CERL, which regularly 

transports other large consignments by road, by air 

and above all by sea for clients active in both the import 

and export fields, picked up the huge unit in Tarragona 

(Spain). The extraordinarily large and heavy item, which 

measured 26 x 8 x 8 m and weighed 443 t, was shipped to 

the Indian port of Paradip by CERL. The heat exchanger 

was successfully discharged there and delivered to the 

customer in the hub’s ro-ro terminal. CERL had especially 

chartered a heavylift freighter as well as a barge to 

carry out this demanding transport task. 

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Combi Lift commences West 

of Duddon Sands project 

The Eit Palmina was deployed for the company Wind- 

ForceOffshore/Dong’s West of Duddon Sands project 

in Scotland on 23 January. Combi Lift was awarded the 

project in 2012 on account of the flexibility of its fleet, 

which will ensure guaranteed delivery of the material at 

the time required. The new heavylift unit will transport 

108 transition pieces, weighing 340 t each, as well as 

108 monopiles, varying in size and weighing up to 520 t 

each, in 22 consecutive voyages. The scope of the project 

was not limited to the transport task alone, however. It 

also included the design and manufacture of a unique 

and innovative lashing and securing system, enabling 

the vessel to sail unrestricted from Bladt Industries’ hub 

to Belfast without the use of lashing wires. 

The West of Duddon Sands is a milestone for Combi 

Lift. It is simultaneously a good example of how Combi 

Lift works together with clients to develop professional 

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Damen launches new vessel 

Tailor-made production 

Damen Shipyards Bergum, a subsidiary 

of the Damen Shipyards Group, launched 

the «Hoogvliet», a new Damen combifreighter, 

in the Rotterdam cruise terminal 

recently. 

The Hoogvliet, a Damen 3850 combifreighter 

designed specifically to transport 

oversized cargo, was recently launched at 

the Rotterdam cruise terminal by sponsor 

Annefleur Janssen, daughter of one 

of the participants in a business alliance 

which will deploy the vessel in European 

waters. The main participants are Hartel 

Shipping and Hudig & Veder. Both have 

expressed their satisfaction with the way 

Damen Shipyards Bergum met their specific 

design requirements. 

A series of four carriers 

The shipbuilder’s sales manager Remko 

Bouma underlined the unique collaboration 

with the companies Hudig & Veder 

Damen recently delivered the «Hoogvliet» combifreighter. 

and Hartel Shipping and their logistics 

stakeholders, thus providing the proper 

conditions for tailor-made production 

and delivery. They chose a compact limited 

partnership structure to invest in a 

series of four carriers to be deployed in 

the oversized cargo industry, carrying 

smaller volume project cargo. 

Lex Fontein, the managing director 

and owner of Hudig & Veder, explained 

Teaming up to ship a prototype tram to Chengdu 

The first tram that was delivered to Chengdu. An option to transport 22 more trams is foreseen. 

The firms Multitrade Spain and Intermax 

Logistics Solutions, both of whom are 

member of the Cargo Equipment Experts 

network CEE, recently coordinated the 

shipment of a prototype tram from the 

Spanish port of Tarragona to Chengdu 

(China) via de port of Shanghai. The task 

was carried out under a contract signed between 

Vossloh, a leading enterprise in the 

field of railway and tramway infrastructure 

and technology, and the Chinese city of 

Chengdu. Multitrade Spain is a railway 

transport specialist based in Barcelona, 

with branches in Tunisia, Mauritania, Venezuela 

and Algeria. Intermax Logistics Solutions, 

which was founded in 2001 and is 

based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, was in 

charge of local delivery. 

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For cost reasons those involved chose relatively 

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Global Star Logistics China handles major projects 

To China and back 

Forwarding oildrilling towers is part of a heavylift and project cargo 

logistics company’s core business. Global Star Logistics recently carried 

out such a transport and conveyed a flight simulator to Venezuela as well. 

Extensive infrastructure is required to exploit 

Venezuela’s oil wealth. Oil industry 

suppliers are also to be found amongst 

Chinese firms. In June 2012 Global Star 

Logistics was set to make its contribution 

towards transports of this kind, as the 

company had to prepare and load oildrilling 

towers for shipping from Tianjin 

(China) to Guanta (Venezuela). 

On-board cranes in action 

Under the terms of the contract, Global 

Star Logistics was responsible for chartering 

the transport ship, arranging for the 

load to be stowed and lashed with appropriate 

material, and for monitoring the 

entire loading process. 

The latter began at 20.30 on 29 June 

2012 – and proved to be challenging. 

Firstly, the components were placed on 

Photo: Global Star Logistics China 

a trailer and transferred 

to the ship’s berth at the 

port, under the watchful 

eyes of Global Star. Then 

the cargo was hoisted onto 

the ship by port cranes and 

the vessel’s own on-board 

cranes, with manual assistance 

from stevedores. All the individual 

shipments were secured by dunnage 

placed between the decks and walls of the 

ship’s hold. The procedure was completed 

in less than 24 hours and loading was finished 

at 17.10 on 30 June 2012. 

Oil production equipment ready for loading in Tianjin. 

Real-life transport of a flight simulator 

Another project involved the transport of 

a flight simulator from Montreal (Canada) 

to Shanghai (China) and included 

inland transportation to its final destination 

in Chengdu, the capital of the 

Chinese province of Sichuan. The largest 

single consignment that had to be forwarded 

was 8.3 m high, 4.4 m wide and 

3.6 m long. 

Global Star Logistics China shouldered 

the entire responsibility for crossloading 

the simulator at a terminal in 

Shanghai, the transport of the unit to an 

intermediate warehouse in Chengdu and 

the final delivery of the cargo and its installation 

at the consignee’s location. cd 

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Almajdouie Group participates in joint 

venture for major Etihad Rails project 

The Saudi Arabia-based Almajdouie Group is participating in 

a major project for Etihad Rails with Sinotrans in China via 

their joint venture Maxxlogistics, headquartered in Jebel Ali 

(UAE). Feng Lin, the general manager of Maxxlogistics, said 

that he was delighted with this joint long-term project for the 

United Arab Emirates. The Maxx team in China had also made 

its contribution towards the acquisition and successful start of 

this project contract. 

Maxx is shouldering the shipping and transport of the railway 

wagons that are to be delivered for phase 1 of Etihad Rails’ 

project. The new freight connection will prepare the 1,200 km 

railway line between Shah, Habshan and Ruwais in the Emirates’ 

western region for the transport of granulated sulphur. 

This railway project is a public-private partnership between 

the UAE government and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company 

(ADNOC). The scheme’s strategic aim is to establish a 

secure freight connection between the Emirates and its Gulf 

Cooperation Council neighbours. 

The first shipment of wagons has already arrived at the port 

of Mina Zayed (Abu Dhabi) and onward transport to their final 

destination began in January 2013. 

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Airland Projects – from China to Sierra 

Leone and from South Africa to Egypt 

Airland Projects, the Danish member of the Worldwide Project 

Consortium WWPC, recently managed a huge range of logistics 

services that were needed to move 600 iron-ore wagons from 

China to Sierra Leone. Five different ships had to be chartered, 

given the shipment’s volume of 110,000 cbm and its total weight 

of 13,820 t. 

Cargo handling went as planned in China, but an alternative 

had to be found in Sierra Leone, due to congestion at the main 

port in Freetown, the country’s capital. The Airland team solved 

the problem by unloading the wagons onto offshore barges out 

at sea. This dispensed with the need to call at the port, saved 

costs for the client and maintained the time schedule. 

Airland Projects were also contracted to provide the logistics 

services for a mine expansion project in Egypt. Part of the business 

was to transport a dismantled ball mill, with an overall 

weight of 528 t, from Johannesburg (South Africa) to a port. 

Single components weighing 95 t posed a special challenge for 

the roads in South Africa. Meticulous planning was needed for 

the 1,800 km overland leg to the port, but the time-sensitive 

freight could be delivered on time and then shipped onwards 

to its destination. 

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SeaWorks from the Netherlands 

New project cargo company 

The new Dutch firm SeaWorks specialises 

in project cargo activities and outsize 

transport jobs. 

The newly-established shipping company 

SeaWorks specialises in moving and 

handling unique cargo and industrial 

project transportation tasks for the oil 

and gas, energy, infrastructure, mining 

and dredging industries. Besides a semiliner 

service between Europe and South 

America, SeaWorks also offers project 

services in the Atlantic, to destinations 

as far apart as Africa, the Mediterranean, 

Scandinavia and the White Sea, as well 

as to Central and North America. The 

company operates multipurpose ’tweendeck 

vessels with lifting capacities of up 

to 160t. 

The management of SeaWorks consists 

of Tjeerd Veldhuizen and Stefan Pompe, 

both of whom are former directors of 

Trinitas and Intermarine. SeaWorks director 

Stefan Pompe said that «although 

the current economic situation is not the 

easiest, we are convinced that potential 

customers will welcome a new dedicated 

Oversized and heavy oil refinery equipment 

transported through Thailand to Iraq 

operator for industrial project transportation 

that provides extra possibilities in 

the Atlantic and connects Europe and the 

east coast of South America at competitive 

prices.» 

Cooperation with Intersee 

SeaWorks cooperates closely with the 

German owner Intersee Schiffahrts 

GmbH of Haren, which operates a fleet 

of 46 vessels, of which 19 are multipurpose 

’tween-deckers with lifting capacities 

of 160t. SeaWorks will provide services 

with vessels ranging between 10,000 and 

13,000 dwt, box-shaped, with hold/hatch 

lengths of up to 65 m, lift-on/off capacity 

of up to 160t, ITF-fitted and with iceclass 

1A (thus also enabling year-round 

services in ice-restricted areas). The fleet 

of vessels is also suited to the shallow 

ports of South America and Africa. 

Managing director Tjeerd Veldhuizen 

added that «SeaWorks is aware that participating 

in complex project cargo tenders 

is not just about operating a fleet of modern 

multipurpose vessels, but also about 

dedication to making the transportation 

task a success for our clients.» 

SeaWorks’ activities are coordinated 

by experienced staff based in Leusden 

(Netherlands). with a network of agents 

handling enquiries. 

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A superoversized consignment heading for the Thai port of Maptaphut. 

Antwerp Breakbulk 

Agencies appoints 

GvanB Logistics as agent 

CEA Projects and Logistics Thailand, 

both members of the Cargo Equipment 

Experts network CEE, carried out a 

heavylift transport task recently, hauling 

equipment for an oil refinery to Iraq. 

The consignment weighed 836 t, encompassed 

6,200 cbm and included several 

oversized units. The largest consignments 

measured 14.3m x 6.5 m and weighed 

65 t each (eight units), whilst another 

eight units measured 6.8m x 3 m x 5.2 m 

and weighed in at 25 t each. The larger 

units had to be top and tail-lifted in order 

to be moved from their vertical position 

to a horizontal one, using two 200 t 

cranes. The larger shipments were moved 

on hydraulic units and the smaller ones 

on low-beds, in a convoy of two trucks 

for super-oversized consignments and 

two for oversized ones, all in compliance 

with Thai convoy regulations. While the 

factory located on Thailand’s eastern seaboard 

was only 12km from the port of 

Maptaphut by the most direct route, the 

cargo’s dimensions meant a much longer 

route had to be taken to avoid overhead 

obstructions. 

The four trips were successfully carried 

out in two days, thanks amongst other 

things to very close coordination with the 

police and the electrical, telephone and 

highway authorities and departments, 

which had to cut power, lift telephone 

and power lines, remove overhead signs, 

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Antwerp Breakbulk Agencies has selected 

GvanB Logistics to act as its official 

booking agent in the Netherlands, thus 

expanding both the quality and the options 

in its portfolio, according to a company 

media release. 

GvanB’s tasks encompass bookings for 

the shipping lines represented (including 

Onego Lines, Hartel, Nepa Shipping, 

amongst many others), as well as for the 

owners of the chartering department of 

Antwerp Breakbulk Agencies. GvanB 

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Vanguard 

A transformer to Mozambique 

Vanguard, a part of the Grindrod Group 

and a leader in heavylift and complex 

relocation jobs in southern Africa, was 

recently put in charge of hauling a transformer 

from South Africa to Mozambique. 

Vanguard had to overcome some serious 

hurdles on the way. 

Vanguard’s heavylift specialists recently 

moved an emergency replacement transformer 

over 2,300 km from Johannesburg 

to the Cahora Bassa power station 

in northwestern Mozambique. Vanguard 

managed to plan and execute the complex 

project – which would commonly be 

expected to take up to three months from 

inception to completion – in a mere three 

weeks, despite poor infrastructure and a 

steep mountain pass on the way. 

Vanguard configured an 18-axle trailer 

to a Mercedes-Benz 4150 Actros with a 

gooseneck, which was ideal for crossing 

the 27 bridges on the route. The last 

stretch took the cargo up the Songa pass, 

which has a 35% gradient in certain places 

and serpentine bends. The 49 m trailer 

and prime mover combination was too 

long to get around the bends, so the cargo 

had to be transferred, the trailer reconfigured 

into a more manoeuvrable seven 

axles, and the transformer hauled up the 

final climb cautiously. 

Vanguard is headquartered in Johannesburg, 

has further South African 

The transportation of a very heavy transformer from South Africa to Mozambique that Vanguard 

carried out had to overcome tight bends and steep climbs. 

branches in Cape Town, Durban and 

Richards Bay and additionally has representative 

offices in Mombasa (Kenya), 

Dumper trucks for South Africa hauled via Hamburg 

The first instalment of a series of dumper 

trucks to be shipped to South Africa were 

loaded onto a ship in Hamburg recently. 

The vehicles were disassembled and 

loaded onto tramp ships for the trip from 

Klaipeda to the port of Hamburg, where 

they were unloaded at the C. Steinweg 

terminal. They were then loaded onto 

maritime vessels for the overseas leg to 

Durban. The first instalment consisted of 

two chassis weighing approximately 51 t 

Walvis Bay (Namibia) as well as Maputo 

(Mozambique). 

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each. The engines, the load platforms 

and the cabins of the two trucks weighed 

in at another 138 t each. There were yet 

more individual consignments weighing 

another 27 t that had to be transported 

in the same batch. The transport task – 

including the pre-feedering leg and the 

forwarding – was managed by the shipbroker 

Peter W. Lampke, acting as the 

agent of Sarjak Container Lines, based 

in Mumbai. 

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Rescue for a rescue helicopter 

Helicoptering a helicopter 

Air Charter Service (ACS) was recently 

assigned to salvage a helicopter in 

northern Russia. A different helicopter 

came to help under the exceedingly 

difficult conditions. 

«We were told that a helicopter had suffered 

a hard landing during a training 

flight,» reported Justin Lancaster, the 

group cargo director of the London-based 

charter company with activities in the 

whole world. 

Careful preparations 

Because the next road was more than 

6 km away from the place of the accident, 

the salvage had to be carried out by air. 

An MIL Mi-26, the world’s biggest and 

highest-capacity serially-produced helicopter 

with a carrying capacity of more 

than 20 t, was called up from the city of 

Archangelsk. 

The rescue mission was planned meticulously 

in the ACS headquarters. A 

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The crashed helicopter took to the skies once 

more, thanks to Air Charter Service. 

crew on snowmobiles was even sent to 

inspect the site, in order to make sure that 

the MIL Mi-26 could land safely on the 

mountaintop to attach the lifting straps. 

Lancaster said that «thanks to the careful 

preparations the actual salvage work 

for this very unusual load only took an 

hour.» 

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13 March – 12th run 

Media partner the International Transport 

Journal ITJ is pleased to announce that the 

12th Business Run at Breakbulk Shanghai 

is taking place soon. Together with the 

sponsors Clipper, Port of Antwerp, Ceres 

Barge Line, Albacor Shipping, Texas Terminals, 

Zuidnatie Breakbulk, Port of 

Houston, CSX and the Journal of Commerce, 

the German consultancy Flensborg 

and Associates is once again providing 

visitors to one of the big industry meetings, 

the Breakbulk China trade fair, with 

an opportunity to go on a 4 or 8 km run 

during the event, which is taking place 

from 12–15 March this year. 

As always, the USD 35 starting fee is a 

triple investment. Firstly, you can broaden 

your commercial relationships whilst 

slowly jogging as well as after completing 

your run, secondly a bit of physical exercise 

is always a good thing and thirdly the 

money that you raise in the run will go to 

a local aid organisation. In this case the 

foundation is called Hands on Shanghai, 

an association that works in the fields of 

education, children’s hospitals and caring 

for the aged. 

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Advertisers’ Index 

Advance International Transport Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 

Alfons Köster & Co. GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 

Altius Proyectos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 

BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH & Co. KG . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 

BEST Logistics Sp. z.o.o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 

BigLift Shipping B.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 

Birs Terminal AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 

Broekman Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 

CERL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 

Chipolbrok Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company . .8 

K/S Combi Lift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 

D’ALESSANDRO Espace Méditerranée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 

Daewon Logipia Co., Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 

Egytrans - Egyptian Transport Commercial Service Co. Ltd. . .14 

EMS Chartering GmbH & Co. KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 

Express Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 

Flamar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 

Friderici Spécial SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 

Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 

Hansa Heavy Lift GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 

Universal Africa Lines c/o HMT International Shipping & 

Forwarding B.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 

Höegh Autoliners AS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 

Holleman Bulgaria O.O.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 

ilya Shipping Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 

JH Logistik GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 

Lattrans Ekspedicija . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 

LS International Cargo GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 

Martin Bencher (Scandinavia) A/S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 

A.C. Ørssleff’s Eftf. A/S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 

The Port of Corpus Christi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 

Project Cargo + Yacht Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 

Project Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 

rhb stevedoring & warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 

Rickmers-Linie GmbH & Cie. KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 

SAL Heavy Lift GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 

Soli-Trans Speditions GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 

T-Link Management AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 

Wallmann & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 

Zeeland Seaports NV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

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