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In Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 at 3:24 pm
GPLN member The Freight Company Beijing (TFC Beijing) recently signed a service and quality management agreement with Holcim China for two cement plants with a total procurement volume of approximately USD 650 million.
One of the cement plants is for Fez, Morocco, and the other is for Garadgh, Azerbaijan. Both plants will be shipped from China starting in May of 2009 and the deliveries will last for approximately 14 months.
“One of the key factors for The Freight Company to be able to sign this agreement was the positive experience with Holcim China on a prior project of shipping a grinding mill to Tanga, Tanzania, which is about to be completed,” said Denis Schmid, managing director of The Freight Company Beijing.
Both projects will be handled by Mr. Thomas Ofner, sales manager of TFC Beijing.
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In 5K Logistics, United States on July 9, 2009 at 1:16 pm
5K Logistics has successfully managed the transport of a new engineered combination of a process gas boiler and its companion steam drum as a completed “piggyback” unit. These new units were manufactured by Deltak Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota for their customer Selas Processing Fluid Corporation in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
The units were delivered via a combination rail/truck to the Linde Process Plants facilities at the CITGO refinery in Romeoville, Illinois, and the Marc West refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. The piggyback designed units were delivered with an actual height of 17’7” and an actual weight of 141,300 lbs. For the Romeoville facility and a height of 14’2” and actual weight of 108,000 lbs. to the Corpus Christie facility.
5K Logistics devised and executed the transportation plan in cooperation with the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern railroads to move these two units together by rail from Deltak in Plymouth, Minnesota. The rail shipments were routed on the Union Pacific Railroad and BN Railroad systems to a nearby rail spur and offloaded to a Goldhofer truck to complete the shipment to the jobsite.
Typically these units are shipped separately due to the excessive height restrictions. These shipments were the largest design component ever shipped piggyback style by Selas Fluid Processing which resulted in a major cost savings for transport and field installation related expenditures.
“Shipping these units as a piggyback unit saved the customer a considerable amount of money as well as increased the installation efficiency at the job site”, says Paul McGrath, President 5K Logistics. 5-K Logistics, Selas Fluid Processing, Linde Process Plants, Deltak Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad, Burlington Northern Railroad, CN Railroad and Imperial Crane Corporation worked together for the past eight months in developing the transport plan for delivery to both of the sites. According to Mr. McGrath this truly was a total team transport effort and was executed with precision!
5K Logistics is an international project logistics provider and a GPLN member headquartered in Warminster, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania with other offices and warehouses in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
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In Airport Fort Lauderdale, Airport Lima, Airport Los Angeles, Airport Miami, Airport Toronto, Canada, Mining Cargo, Peru, United States on July 8, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Chicago based GPLN member BDG International proved that project cargo isn’t always about size! During a standard export shipment from Peru to Canada, space was tight from Lima to Los Angeles International Airport. Only 786 kgs, the pallet of mining supply parts was urgent to be received in Canada and install in a machine that was already shut down.
At first the shipper was looking at standard service from Lima to Edmonton International Airport. Each day the cargo was delayed and there did not seem to be any space on the Lan Chile flights northbound via Los Angeles International Airport.
BDG International received the call to get involved and after learning all the facts they re-routed the cargo to Miami in order to transship the cargo on Air Canada. Lan Chile was booked to Los Angeles International Airport full for days at the express level due to Asparagus and other perishables moving priority over any general cargo.
“The cargo moved express to Miami as planned,” said Lisa Waller, vice president of BDG International, “During this time the weather in Northeast and Central United States and Canada began to deteriorate. It looked as it we may have a shut down in Toronto Airport. In order to work around this we had a back up plan.”
“Then next morning when the Lan Chile flight arrived the word was already out that the airport in Toronto was shutting down,” recounted Waller, “Immediately we were on the phone with plan B. We were going to fly the cargo into Montana and truck to Calgary avoiding the storms.”
“At this point the customer stated that the cargo was now more than urgent but we had to charter a plane. The mines were loosing over one million USD per day. As of 10:30 on that Friday we had the “go” to find and charter a plane from Miami to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.”
“Due to the distance and the urgency we were able to locate a DC-9 and had the freight on board by 18:00 same day,” said Waller, “Meanwhile, we cleared the goods through U.S. Customs, awaited its arrival from Peru, recovered the cargo at 10:30 am, brought to our designated warehouse in Miami, prepared for export, turned the cargo around for export, and delivered the shipment to the charter airline by 18:00 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (one hour north of Miami) where the charter was just available for loading.”
The carrier departed timely and as it entered the next transfer point the weather became increasingly worse. BDG could not fly the cargo direct into Yellowknife due to the fact that this is not an international customs port. Thus, they had the cargo landed in Winnipeg for customs clearance where they had people on the ground waiting. The Canadian broker cleared the goods at 01:00 am, waited for de-icing and was back in the air ASAP. Cargo arrived into Yellowknife at 04:00 and was signed off at 06:00 on the Sunday morning.
This was a successful move for all. There was not a minute wasted!
