Newsletter September 2008 - arcelor logistics
Newsletter September 2008 - arcelor logistics
Newsletter September 2008 - arcelor logistics
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newsletter<br />
Shared services — Logistics<br />
Shipment of structural beams via<br />
Sagunto<br />
During the first week of <strong>September</strong> 1000 tons of structural beams<br />
were loaded on board of the m/v “OSMAN D”, at the Sagunto<br />
port (Mediterranean Spain) bound for Beirut (Lebanon), for<br />
account of the ArcelorMittal Long Carbon Steel mills of Olaberria<br />
and Madrid.<br />
In close cooperation with the shipping mills and the long products<br />
commercial team in Spain, ArcelorMittal Logistics coordinated the<br />
loading operation to the full satisfaction of all parties involved.<br />
The exceptionality of this event lies in the<br />
fact that it has been 24 years since the last<br />
steel long product shipment was carried<br />
out at the port of Sagunto, prior to the<br />
shutdown in the 80’s of the former Altos<br />
Hornos del Mediterraneo Company.<br />
This shipment is also a first joint-operation<br />
between the LCSE sector (Long carbon<br />
steel Europe) and ArcelorMittal Logistics<br />
in Spain which hopefully will set the pace<br />
for further cooperation and synergy<br />
Transport of 12 casting ingot<br />
moulds ex USA to France<br />
ArcelorMittal Logistics Italia was contacted by ArcelorMittal –<br />
Industeel, to<br />
arrange a “special<br />
transport” to their<br />
mill in Le Creusot,<br />
France.<br />
The challenge,<br />
this time, was to<br />
organize the<br />
transport of<br />
twelve Casting<br />
Ingot Moulds<br />
weighing 27 tons<br />
each, from<br />
Hubbard, Ohio,<br />
USA, to Le<br />
Creusot. The twelve pieces were collected in Ohio around mid<br />
June and were transferred to the port of Baltimore, where they<br />
were loaded onto the liner vessel “MV Lapis Arrow”, destined to<br />
the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.<br />
Due to the mill’s summer holidays, the special convoys to<br />
transport the 12 casting Ingot moulds from Zeebrugge to Le<br />
Creusot could only start as of August 18 th .<br />
Another six Casting Ingot Moulds of about 69 tons each, 3,7 m<br />
wide, 3,6 m long and 1,7 m high will be transported shortly from<br />
Hubbard, Ohio, USA but then with destination ArcelorMittal –<br />
Industeel Châteauneuf (Belgium).<br />
Then, in November, ArcelorMittal Logistics Italia, will arrange a<br />
very special convoy for the transport of a “huge” Casting Ingot<br />
Mold from Ostrava (Czech Republic) destined to Le Creusot Mill:<br />
this casting will be a single piece of 112 tons of weight, 4.6 m<br />
wide and 2.7 m high… but this is another history and it will be<br />
surely reported in one of our next newsletters.<br />
Fiat brings scrap to ArcelorMittal Sestao (ex ACB)<br />
As per the mandate of ArcelorMittal Recycling, a part of the scrap produced by<br />
the FIAT Group at the mills of Mirafiori (Turin) and Pomigliano d’Arco (Naples)<br />
has to be transported to the melting mill of ArcelorMittal Sestao to be recycled.<br />
Effective July, ArcelorMittal Logistics Italia has been selected as forwarder for this<br />
ongoing business.<br />
The first step consists of transporting scrap from the FIAT Group’s mills to the<br />
ports of Savona and Salerno, by truck. The next step involves the unloading and<br />
storage of the scrap at the secured facilities at the two ports. In a third phase, the<br />
scrap is shipped by sea to the port of Sestao. Chartering of the vessels was<br />
arranged by ArcelorMittal Shipping.<br />
In <strong>September</strong>, ArcelorMittal Logistics Italia, in cooperation with ArcelorMittal<br />
Logistics France, chartered the M/V “Gorky”, to transport scrap from Savona to<br />
Sestao. On board of this lady, 3.670 tons of scrap has been transported.<br />
For a second shipment of approximately 4200 tons of scrap from Salerno, a<br />
second vessel will be chartered before the end of <strong>September</strong>.<br />
Together with the scrap flows through Leghorn, ArcelorMittal Logistics Italia will<br />
now handle an annual volume of 120.000 tons of scrap.