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http://ping.fm/p/qTw61 – This BreakBulk Conference and Exhibition 2009 was the last meeting to be held in New Orleans, after 20 years in the city. The BreakBulk 2010 will be in Houston next year. The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is a regular at the BreakBulk conferences, not only in North America but also in Antwerp and Singapore.

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Assel Nakheeva of Lomer Point Brige with Joseph Lee of Portlogisti cs

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) took part in the 5th Thai Ports & Shipping Conference and Exhibition 2009 at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel on October 29th – 30th. The event attracted such dignitaries as the Thai Minister of Transport.

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is the world’s best most prestigious independent international project forwarding network. GPLN members are screened for their project logistics capabilities and the group only allows project forwarding specialists join as members.

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A busy GPLN booth

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) took part in the 5th Thai Ports & Shipping Conference and Exhibition 2009 at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel on October 29th – 30th. The event attracted such dignitaries as the Thai Minister of Transport.

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is the world’s best most prestigious independent international project forwarding network. GPLN members are screened for their project logistics capabilities and the group only allows project forwarding specialists join as members.

Website:
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Follow us on Twitter!:
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Luzius Haffter (L, GPLN), Assel Nakheeva (C, Lomer Point Bridge) a nd Patrick Dick (R, The Freight Company)

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) took part in the 5th Thai Ports & Shipping Conference and Exhibition 2009 at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel on October 29th – 30th. The event attracted such dignitaries as the Thai Minister of Transport.

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is the world’s best most prestigious independent international project forwarding network. GPLN members are screened for their project logistics capabilities and the group only allows project forwarding specialists join as members.

Website:
http://www.gpln.net

Follow us on Twitter!:
http://twitter.com/GPLN

Alfa Logistics helps Kazan’s second-phase metro take shape

Moscow-based Alfa Logistics has organized the trans-shipment of a tunnel-boring machine (TBM) from the Le Creusot, France, headquarters of NFM Technologies to Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. The cargo will land at Rostov from where it will be on shipped to Kazan, where it will used for tunneling the extension to the Kazan subway.

This 5.89m diameter Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) TBM was designed for the subway line 1 extension in Kazan, following on from the initial order in 2005 for the subway.

“The first machine was chosen quite by chance,” said Marat Rakhimov, director of Kazmetrostroy, the authority in charge of the construction of the subway. “This machine was chosen from experience.”

Alfa Logistics is transporting the machine, which has been given a Tatar girl’s name meaning “as beautiful as the moon” from Le Creusot at the beginning of August on its journey to the work site, where it is expected to arrive at the end of September.

Ask us about next year’s meeting. You should be a part! Grow your international projects business with Global Projects Logistics Network!

A Clipper vessel on the Mississippi River

I took this shot from the river boat Creole Queen in New Orleans. I have always loved this city.  We were visiting the city for the 20th BreakBulk Conference and Exhibition which was held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The 21st BreakBulk Conference and Exhibition will be in Houston, Texas, so we tried to see as much of New Orleans as we could.

Oceanbridge joins hands with Peters & May

Following an earlier announcement of Peters & May Ltd.’s acquisition of U.K.-based performance yacht and motor boat logistics provider, Complete Freight Ltd., the company also revealed an exclusive agency agreement with Oceanbridge Shipping Ltd. of New Zealand. The agreement covers the marine sector of Oceanbridge Shipping’s businesses and commenced on May 25th 2009.

On making the announcement, Peters & May’s managing director Jan Rydgren-Knudsen, said: “We are very happy to announce this tie up with Oceanbridge Shipping, a company with an expanding portfolio of clients that has proven itself to be dynamic and most professional – qualities that mirror the philosophy and ideals of Peters & May.”

“We look forward to working with them and are confident that this new relationship will be a valued enhancement to the services we deliver to our clients as the service and support of Oceanbridge will be

available to our net work of 12 world-wide offices.”

Oceanbridge Shipping had previously worked closely with Peters & May’s new acquisition, Complete Freight and established a marine division that has rapidly developed to become the leading marine logistics provider in New Zealand. Furthermore the company is the largest independent NVOCC in New Zealand.

Alister Wishart, chief operations officer of Oceanbridge Shipping, commented: “The acquisition of Complete Freight by Peters & May is very much welcomed and the joining of the two companies will, I

believe, lead to significant opportunities for future development and growth.

“We are extremely excited to have signed this exclusive agency agreement with Peters & May and eagerly look forward to supporting their worldwide clients’ shipment needs. The agreement is mutually

beneficial and will both enhance and strengthen Oceanbridge’s position as the leading marine logistics provider in our region.”

Peters & May has over 30 years experience in the provision of marine logistics and offers global boat transportation and freight forwarding via air, road, rail and sea from a global network of 12 offices and

numerous exclusive agencies.

The company ships 8,000 vessels through more than 150 ports in over 60 countries and is the preferred shipper to many of the world’s leading boat builders, including Sunseeker.

The summer months are especially busy for the company — with Cowes Week and the Fastnet Race under a month away, Peters & May have been busy shipping the most modern and extreme sailing yachts into the U.K.  in top condition for their owners to start preparations.

GPLN Admitted to SC&RA

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) announced that it has been admitted to the American based Specialized Carriers and Riggers Association (SC&RA).

“We are very proud to be a part of SC&RA,” said Gary Dale Cearley, Executive Director of GPLN, “I know it sounds funny that a network would join an association but from our perspective it makes total sense.  This is a group of project specialists at the end of the day and we are very serious about the industry so we should take our place beside them.”

Cearley went on to explain the difference in the type organizations the two are.  “GPLN is a network and SC&RA is an association,” said Cearley, “GPLN focuses on promoting business between the members, building a common brand and promoting our members directly at conferences and exhibitions around the world.  An association helps to develop and promote an industry as a whole rather than a group of like minded companies within an industry.”

Cearley iterated that two groups have lots that they can offer one another in their areas of expertise as both grow.  “I look forward to our involvement in SC&RA.  They are a very worthwhile organization.”

The Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN) is the premier non-exclusive professional project logistics network of independent companies (including project forwarders and project charterers) who are specializing in the movement and handling of international project cargo by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

Cargo renunion in Antwerp

French company Sifa Projets has successfully moved an entire coating plant from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion to the European port of Antwerp. The job took 19 days, beginning on June 11 and ending on June 30.

The plant, operated by Appia, was located in Saint-Leu in the west of Réunion. Using specialized low-bed trucks, Sifa transported 32 loads from the jobsite to Réunion’s Pointe des Galets port., crossing many high bridges on the way through the island’s dramatic terrain.

The heaviest load was 71 tons in a volume of 330 cubic meters, while other major loads of 50 tons and 35 tons were also carried. Sifa chartered 4000 cubic meters on a roll-on roll-off vessel to ship the

plant from Pointe des Galets to Antwerp.

GPLN members share locomotive project

GPLN members Trans-Trading GmbH, Hamburg and UTM Projects & Logistics Pty. Ltd., Brisbane have jointly secured the transport of 68 locomotives each weighing 132 tons, from Mannheim, Germany up to placed on to rail at the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal, Brisbane, Australia.

The locomotives, manufactured in Munich, were transported from Munich by low loaders to Mannheim where GPLN member Trans-Trading GmbH received them.  “Due to height restrictions along the route to Mannheim, the locomotives arrived with a temporary roof which was replaced with the actual roof, including a pantograph, upon arrival at the heavy lift terminal in Mannheim,” said Thorsten Reinke, Hamburg branch manager of Trans-Trading, Once permanent roofs were assembled, the locomotives, two per lot, were shipped by river barge to Bremerhaven. Once in Bremerhaven, the locomotives were lifted out of the river barge using mobile cranes and were loaded on to Ro-Ro vessels for direct shipment to Brisbane.

Upon arrival in Brisbane, the locomotives were pulled off the vessel using an eight-axle hydraulic trailer and were delivered to the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal (BMT). At the BMT, a trailer with a locomotive is driven underneath a lifting system and locomotives are lowered on to rail.  “The challenges in Brisbane included, but were not limited to, the coordination of the tides as locomotives can only come down the vessel’s ramp during low tide,” said Peter Schweizer, managing director of UTM Projects & Logistics. “Also we had to coordinate transport with port security and the BMT operator in order to make certain deliveries did not interfere with regular train operations at the BMT.”

With the arrival of the first Pacific National locomotive in May 2009 the second stage of this massive project has started. So far, a total of 27 locomotives have been delivered without any delays and to the

fullest satisfaction of the customer, Schweizer said..

First Indian MOU an historic achievievement for Jeena

Jeena & Co. has succeeded in bringing about the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding a business cooperation between an Indian port and an overseas counterpart.

The MoU was signed between Jeena, Chennai Port and the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, earlier this year. Jeena acts as ambassador for the Port of Halifax and played a key role in initiating

and organizing an MOU for sister port cooperation, which Jeena believes create a new era of mutual understanding.

The MoU is evidence of the steps that Jeena is taking to maintain strong growth in a time of general economic certainty, the company has said. Other moves include strengthening its international network by

placing an Indian representative in China by tying up with one of the largest Chinese logistics companies, Cargo Services. Zubin Davar, Jeena delegate to China, will be taking up this responsibility from

July 2009. This partnership will also cover another important market like Hong Kong.

ECS Project Cargo announces new website

ECS Project Cargo, part of the ECS Group now has a new website which showcases its special skills.  The Spanish company has extensive experience in logistics and special projects, and offer logistic services and storage, planning and carrying out all operations required for loading and unloading of goods from ships.

The location of company headquarters in the port of Algeciras, natural point of connection between Africa and Europe, the Mediterranean and Atlantic, offers numerous benefits for customers.

Earlier this year, the company delivered two Agusta Westland helicopters, each measuring 13 meters long and 3.6 meters high, which were shipped from the U.S. and unloaded at Algeciras for onward delivery.

ECS has provided services for major industrial projects, such as the construction of combined-cycle plants and helping the implementation of wind farms on land.

The Global Project Logistics Network Celebrates 5 Years of Growth and Progress

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN), the world’s largest network of independent international project logistics specialists and charterers has now turned five years old.

“Our group has lots of milestones to be proud of,” said Gary Dale Cearley, Executive Director of GPLN, “We have grown from only ten members in our first year to being the largest projects logistics specialist network in the world.  We should be around 200 member offices near the end of this year.  And that is no mean feat.”

Cearley puts the growth down to GPLN’s commitment to promoting the group globally.

“From the beginning our focus has been global,” continued Cearley, “We have members on every continent, in every region of the world and in every major projects port.  We have been very focused in this aspect.  We attend shipping and maritime trade shows about ten times per year.  No other group does that.  And we promote only within the range of project forwarding and chartering – no LCL specialists and no airfreight forwarders on our roll.  Only real and verifiable project logistics specialists.  In the end this sets us apart and ahead of the pack.”

GPLN has also been keeping it global when it comes to their annual meetings.  “We have had meetings in the past in Dublin, Bangkok, Dubai, Prague, Kuala Lumpur, Tunis and next we will be in Rio de Janeiro,” said Luzius Haffter, GPLN’s new Commercial Director, “And this next meeting will be even bigger than before.  We are working hard on it already.”

The fact that the Global Project Logistics Network’s prestige has grown can be reflected in the corporate sponsors that they have been able to attract such as Beluga Shipping and Rickmers-Linie.

GPLN has been recording its history through photos on the GPLN website as well.  “We are constantly trawling our members for photos of their moves so we can get these out to everyone,” said Gary Dale Cearley, “This is one of the best ways we have been able to promote our specialties within the group and to the various industries that are served by project forwarders and project charterers.  Our members have lots that they can be proud of over the years and I want to make sure that the entire world knows.”

The Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN) is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

Cory expands to meet growth path

International freight and logistics expert Cory Brothers says it is looking forward optimistically to the future as it opens bespoke new U.K. offices to accommodate the company’s growth.

Cory House, in Haven Exchange, Felixstowe, was officially opened by the Rt Hon John Gummer MP for Suffolk Coastal, in front of invited guests, including the Mayor and Mayoress of Felixstowe, and industry leaders, including Alan Marsh, chief executive officer of the Braemar Shipping Services Group – of which Cory Brothers is part – and Cory Brothers Chairman and Braemar Shipping Services Director Quentin Soanes.

John van Bergen, Managing Director of Cory Brothers’ Freight Forwarding and Logistics Division, said: “We are delighted to be opening this new facility which will enable us to provide an even better service for our customers.

“This development emphasizes the investments we are making in our products to ensure our customers receive superior support and care in these most demanding of times.”  Cory Brothers provides a wide range of port, hub, liner, cruise and forwarding services from its bases throughout the U.K. and internationally, including from its new South-East Asia hub in Singapore.

The company, which can trace its history back to 1842 where it began as Richard Cory & Sons in the Cardiff Docks, says the new 15,000 square-foot Felixstowe office is a result of recent organic growth and the purchase of Freight Action at the end of last year, and demonstrates the company’s commitment to its strategy of further expansion.  Alan Marsh, Chief Executive of Braemar Shipping Services plc, said: “We are pleased that Cory Brothers continues to go from strength to strength. Cory Brothers represents an important component within the group, which has developed marine services business divisions in parallel to shipbroking and these divisions now represent a growing percentage of the group’s profitability.”

Cory also developed ShipTrak, an Internet-based application for monitoring vessel movements.

Titan tackles Singapore lift

Titan Logistics recently completed a couple of heavy-duty jobs in Singapore, covering both infrastructure and leisure projects.

The first was the lifting of the luxury boat Braveheart at Jurong Port. Carried out for Coli Shipping & Transport Group, the job entailed lifting the 430-ton 40-meter-long Braveheart from the transport vessel Lena. The rigging, weighing 84 tons, had to be taken into account because of the boat’s soft hull.

A 1600-ton Sheerleg Crane Barge was used to discharge the boat from the vessel. The smaller crane barges could not perform the job due to their limited hook-height. Titan personnel were involved in planning, rigging design and execution of the job together with the technical department of SAL Shipping, the captain and superintendent of the vessel, Coli Shipping. Boat was discharged safely from the vessel to the waters off Jurong Port, Singapore.

The second job was the transportation of a rail-grinding vehicle for Singapore Mass Rapid Transport (SMRT) for the island’s MRT network.  The rail-grinding vehicle consisted of a three-car configuration, with the heaviest car at 45 tons. The units were transported from the port of Singapore to the MRT Depot at Kim Chuan, and later relocated to Bishan Depot.

New Member: Trans International Logistiks Sdn Bhd

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Trans International Logistiks Sdn Bhd

No. 6-3, Jalan SS7/16
Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Tel.: +60 (3) 7873 1333
Fax: +60 (3) 7873 3331

Contacts:
Mr. Kuldip Singh Seine, Managing Director
Tel.: +60 (3) 7873 1333 (direct)
Mobile: +60 (1) 2222 6034

Ms. Harjeet Kaur, General Manager
Tel.: +60 (3) 7873 1333 (direct)
Mobile: +60 (1) 6323 0070

Mr. Paul Devanayagam, Project Manager – Sea Freight
Tel.: +60 (3) 7873 1333 (direct)
Mobile: +60 (1) 2227 7006

Ms. Halimah Abu Baker, Project Manager – Airfreight
Tel.: +60 (3) 8787 2463 (direct)
Mobile: +60 (1) 7635 1470

Trans International Logistiks’s services include turnkey project logistics management, transport feasibility studies, heavy lift / over-dimensional transport engineering consultancy. Roll On / Roll Off barge and beach landing operation, heavy and over sized cargo off-loading (including installation, erection, positioning), chartering (vessels / barges / aircraft), mobilization – demobilization, lashing, securing, stuffing / unstuffing.  They also specialize in relocation of plant and machinery including dismantling / industrial packing / jacking and sliding.  Trans International is very familiar with customs clearance and government formalities and they also have transit warehousing and open yard storage available.

I look forward to their working with GPLN members soon!

Wilhelmsen signs 3-year Saudi deal

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has signed a three-year warehousing and distribution service agreement for eastern and central Saudi Arabia with Alcatel Lucent. The contract requires 5500 square meters of open and closed storage with distribution of materials for mobile telecommunications signal relay stations across eastern Saudi Arabia.  This entails storage and distribution of out-of-gauge masts plus the delicate handling of sensitive and high-value electric housing units and associated components. WSS Saudi won this contract against leading international and domestic service providers based on us being able to provide a flexible and highly responsive service offering covering all areas of the storage and distribution cycle.

WSS has been trading in Saudi Arabia for over 30 years. Wilhelmsen Ships Service is involved in a number of ongoing major infrastructure projects such as a cement plant relocation to Rabigh, Manifa causeway construction, as well as the commercially vital Ras Al Zour port construction.

Transportas secures platform in Hywind

Transportas has played a key part in StatOil Hydro’s environmentally pioneering Hywind project. Hywind is the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine, which will float on seas of depths between  be

placed at ocean depths of between 120 and 700 meters. The floating structure consists of a steel jacket filled with ballast.

This floating element will extend 100 meters beneath the surface and will be fastened to the seabed by three anchor piles. The mooring equipment, crucial to the safe continued operation of the project, is

extremely heavy, and Transportas was involved in shipping bundles of chains from China to Norway, anchors from the Nertherlands, and reels from Italy.

The Benefits of Joining GPLN

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is fairly well known in the market but there are some people who are less familiar with business-to-business networking who ask me what the benefits of membership might be.  I am always happy to explain the benefits and also to point them to the website as well.  At the same time I think it would be helpful to have a blog posting on this so it will be out there for everyone to see.

There are many benefits and different companies will appreciate different benefits in ways that others might not.  That’s normal because every company is different, operating in its own market with its own marketing niche.  So what I would like to do is to go over what I see as the most important benefits of the being a member of GPLN.  Others might give you a different idea in the end, but I do think the below three benefits are both important and substantial to project forwarders and chartering companies the world over:

1)      GPLN will expand your international projects marketing focus. Because of the diverse services of the GPLN members you are able to sell not only deeper into project accounts but up and down your prospects’ project supply chains. Your company also expands its sales force through the power of networking by joint sales with your GPLN partners around the world. Throughout our membership, GPLN partners offer greatly expanded customer base potential.

2)      In GPLN you will know your partner. Our regional and global meetings will allow you the face-to-face contact with your GPLN partners where you will be able to efficiently build professional relationships in the most lasting and cost effective manner.  You are afforded the opportunity to meet a multitude of partner companies to discuss past, current and future business, exchange sales leads, and develop a range of business possibilities that your company could only achieve by constant expensive business trip.

3)      GPLN expands your operational capabilities. You will have confidence in your GPLN partners’ abilities to satisfy your clients’ requirements. Throughout GPLN you will find available to you the combined professional project experience, local know how, and operational competence to move the world. GPLN members excel in the expertise of moving oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift project cargo.

If you would like to know more about the above benefits I am more than happy to discuss them with you.  You can contact me through our website or you can have a look through our membership directory and find a member you might be comfortable in asking about how they benefit.  You will see why we are the best known and most respected project cargo network in the business today.  We are here for you!

Almajdouie Group named Best Logistics Service Provider at MELA

Syed Mustafa receives award on behalf of Almajdouie Group at the MELA Awards

Almajdouie Group , one of the leading logistics companies in the Middle East, won the award for the Best Logistics  Service Provider at the 3rd Annual Middle East Logistics Awards (MELA) 2009.

Out of the seven nominees, Almajdouie Group garnered the most number of votes in the Best Logistics Service Provider category after the rigorous auditing of leading audit firm Horwath MAK.

Syed Mustafa, vice president of Almajdouie Group, pointed out that winning the MELA Award honors further underlined Almajdouie’s well-established presence and penetration in the international logistics industry.

“And this is a fitting tribute to the dedicated teams at Almajdouie who put in tremendous effort every day, to ensure we provide unparalleled and innovative solutions that meet our customers’ needs,” said Mustafa.

MELA officially honors companies and individuals for excellence in the Middle East logistics industry.

SCACLI & AST Cooperate on Boiler Moves from Canada to Turkey

Sea Cargo Air Cargo Logistics Inc. (SCACLI) and AST Ltd. have recently shipped a boiler of 230 tons door-to-door from Ontario Canada to Antalya, Turkey.

“The boiler started its journey from Ontario, Canada, to Halifax by rail,” said Laurent Montignon, managing director of SCACLI, “The loading onto rail car took place with temperatures close to 30 degree below zero C!”

The module was successfully loaded on board a part chartered vessel to Spliethoff and within three weeks AST ensured the receiving and a smooth delivery of the equipment to the job site at destination.

R&L Canada and Celtic Forwarding Cooperate on Discharge

Rohde & Liesenfeld Canada recently used Celtic Forwarding’s help in discharging Ireland bound cargo.  The freight, consisting of 18 heavy lifts 26 m x 3.6 m x 2 m ranging from 50,000 kg to 70,000 kg, originated from Thailand to and was shipped to Cork in the South part of Ireland.

“The port did not have the cranage to offload so Celtic sourced the mobile LG 500 in England to discharge the ship,” said Finbarr Cleary of Celtic Forwarding, “There was no crane available in Ireland to offload the cargo of this size and weight.”

Inchcape Shipping Services Moves Large Yacht

Dubai based and GPLN member Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has a tricky transfer of a yacht (36.5 x 7.8 x 9.5 Meters, weight 150MT) from Jebel Ali, in the United Arab Emirates to Aqaba, Jordan.

“The yacht had to be lifted from the water,” said Usman Ahmed, ISS Project Supervisor, “But the most difficult part was the COG / lifting points of the yacht were not available.  It took long time to finalize the COG using two cranes with the help of divers.  Finally, upon safe lifting we moved the yacht to the berth and moved the nominated vessel fwd and loaded the yacht safely.”

GPLN takes on a new Commercial Director

Luzius "Luzi" Haffter, new GPLN Commercial Director

The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Luzius Haffter to the GPLN team as their new commercial director with immediate effect. Haffter is a Swiss citizen with over twenty years business experience mainly in the travel and hospitality industry but he also has brief experience in the logistics field. He speaks German, English, French and some Italian and Thai and he attended the University of Basel. His immediate responsibilities will be arranging the upcoming exhibitions for the rest of this year and he will also assist in many other areas as well.

“I for one am very happy to have Luzi on board,” said Gary Dale Cearley, Executive Director of GPLN, “He brings many skills along that will help us to become even better than before. For one, his expertise in events management will definitely be an important focus for us.”

The Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN) is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

Almajdouie PSC Heavylift move of Evaporators for Marafiq Project

Saudi Arabia GPLN member Almajdouie Heavy Lift Transport and Engineering secured a mega contract for transportation of super heavy and oversize evaporators module from Bilfal Heavy Industry (Ex-Works Yard) to Marafiq IWPP Project Site Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

The Marafiq Desalination plant will be one of the largest water desalination processing plants in the world.  The execution of Project is ongoing where Almajdouie Heavy Lift (ALMADOUIE HEAVYLIFT) and Almajdouie PSC Heavylift (MPSC) are jointly utilizing their expertise in moving such heaviest units by Self Propelled Module Trailers (SPMT’s) trailers.

“In total we handled 18 units and out of these 9 units were locally manufactured by Bilfal of Saudi Arabia and remaining unit were manufactured in Korea and UAE,” said Izaz Ahmed Watangi, Vice President Logistics of Almadouie, “It is worth to mention that we were also engaged in loadout of some units in the United Arab Emirates as well.”

Huge evaporators are very important for the project. Each evaporator is of 1810 tons in weight, 65 meters length, 22 meters width & 13 meters height.

We used 84 axles of latest generation Self Propelled Modular Trailers (SPMT). The General Manager Mr. Mark Brereton Stuart set this in a 42 axle side by side configuration.  This type of equipment was the only way to handle such large and heavy loads, along a combination of public and private roads.

Almadouie PSC has a team of specially trained operators for SPMT operation, supported by a highly experienced operations team headed by Ely Coyoca, International Operations Manager, who is in the field for the last 25 years who have been involved in some of the largest moves in the region and the wider World. This team worked seamlessly with the Almadouie PSC team in Dammam to jointly provide all the services and expertise to carry out the transportations, particularly for the Bilfal units.

The major obstacle for the Bilfal units, was that the initial conclusion was that they could not be moved by road. Almadouie PSC was called in by Bilfal to verify on the situation as the responsible wanted to make sure the massive loads reach in time safely. Almadouie PSC carry eminent know-how in such movements and ultimately concluded saying that “it is a highly complex move but it is possible”.  Since the project were in the eastern region Almadouie PSC engineering unit extended their support by conducting thorough studies and by preparing and analyzing stuff right from bidding stage till the final approval of relevant technical documents. In many areas route modifications were needed, including residential areas from the approach roads to the site. Required route modifications were:

-          Hard trimming of more than 400 trees in a residential area that had to be maintained throughout the project duration
-          Removal and replacement of 108 light posts, and there replacement within strict time windows dictated by the security police.
-          Crossing of TS-1 major highway, twice. The second crossing was at a very rarely used crossing place. We had to survey and simulate this crossing meter by meter in order to verify that the SPMT’s could pass safely across.
-          Removal and replacement within the same day of three sets of signal lights for each move.
-          Propping of three bridges for the duration of the project.

Each move involved several agencies. The Royal Commission had a vital role in firstly studying and working with us to find the solutions to move by road, this involved very special permissions to carry to the work in the above list, and in general to encroach in residential areas with a cargo of this size. It was essential to obtained written permission from Saudi Electric Company, Saudi Telecom Co. and Marafiq existing underground facilities. At the same time the support of local Police and security greatly lend a hand in regards of the safe crossing of the cargo through the very busy TS-1 highway, and in general providing safety and security where needed. We also used several subcontractors for work to prepare the route and handle the street fixtures stated above.

Operation team along with Mr. Ely and Mr. Asif Batt said on average each delivery would take two days to travel the 9 km to site, which is exactly as planned. However, after several moves arrival at the site was also completed in one day, which is a testament to the organization of all the relevant agencies, the quality of the equipment, and the skill of the operators.

MPSC is now at the forefront of the movement of super heavy loads throughout the region. We have been involved in moves of up to 5,000 tons and moved more than 30 items over 1,000 tons in the past two years, in countries all over the Middle East, but particularly KSA and UAE. We have also carried out the Tower lift of several vessels up to 1,100 tons during the same period. We are now one of the leaders in the Middle East in our industry, and we have expanded our equipment fleet and profile in the region, leading to the award of key projects that will allow the companies further growth in the coming years.

Transportas Moves Paper Mill Project from Germany to UK

Transportas Internationale Spedition recently moved a big paper mill project of about 20,000 freight tons from Southern Germany to Kings Lynn at the East coast of United Kingdom.

The entire project consisted of about 80 normal truck loads, 65 oversized and heavy load trailers and 14 pieces which had to be shipped in combined transport truck, river barge, coaster vessel and truck due to the maximum width up to 7.50 m and height of the biggest pieces were 5.40 m in combination with the maximum weight of 125 tons.

“Transportas organized transportation from factory via the various routes which have been necessary out of cargo´s physics up to just in sequence delivery to the jobsite,” said Claudio Blasizzo, managing director of Transportas Internationale Spedition, “The main challenge for the oversized cargo was that the main road through the whole city of Kings Lynn had to be closed and authorities and officials only allowed us during the nights from Saturday to Sunday.  Also there were twelve traffic lights and other traffic related establishments that had to be removed.”

TFC Beijing Signs Agreement with Holcim China

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.

5K Logistics Successfully Moves 17’5” High “Piggyback” by Rail

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.

Your Mine is Shut Down for Parts? Call BDG International!

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!

Advance International Seeks to Capitalize on Kazakhstan’s Development

In Kazakhstan, leading global freight forwarder, Advance International Transport has relocated its Almaty office to a newer and more efficient location to better serve its growing customer base in this vital Caucasian country.

The office remains responsible for co-coordinating all export and import transport enquiries handled by Advance International, both to and from Kazakhstan.

Advance International has long had a presence in the country, says the company’s President and CEO, Jawad Kamel, and the office move builds on the need to extend the company’s facilities in response to the bullish growth of its turnover in the country.

Mr Kamel says: “We are making this move to a new and more efficient facility as we have been very successful in attracting business and have outgrown our previous location. It is important to build our presence in one of the world’s most exciting regions for freight transport.

“There has never been a better time to take a look at Kazakhstan and what it can offer freight shippers seeking a way to connect China and the EU. Massive extensions to Kazakhstan’s transport network will be repaid as freight volume between China and Kazakhstan is forecast to double by next year to 25 million tons.

“I am very excited by the prospects Kazakhstan offers and the real alternative the country gives to freight forwarders and their clients who wish to connect two of the world’s greatest trading blocs. An incredible US$12 billion is being budgeted over the next five years in the country’s road and rail infrastructure which can only boost traffic with China and result in routes that do not involve Russian territory,” he says.

Kazakhstan has been a sleeping giant in terms of transport.  Now the country is awakening and freight forwarders like Advance International can only profit from the new opportunities the country offers.

Mr Kamal adds: “The Great Silk Road has always stood for trade between east and west. Where once caravans moved slowly between China and the west, taking the finest goods in both directions, now Advance International can look forward to bringing the latest consumer goods, finished products and containers at the speed of the fastest rail wagon or road truck, along one of the world’s great trading routes.”

So how does this positive outlook translate to activity that can benefit both Advance International and its clients’ bottom-lines?

“We are seeing splendid examples of targeted investment – US builder GE has supplied 150 rail locomotives to Kazakhstan, for example. We are responding to these positive signals by real investment in the country. Just over two years ago, we re-organized our office arrangements in Kazakhstan by establishing a new dedicated office in Almaty to provide stronger customer service support for our Advantage Express Railfreight Service, between Poti in Georgia and Almaty,” Mr Kamal explained.

The Advantage Express Service offers shippers an efficient routing for any cargoes that they are moving to and from the Central Asian Republics. It has an advertised transit time of eight days between Poti and Almaty and has been extended from Almaty to the northwest Chinese city of Urumqi to provide a link from this inland region of China to the Black Sea port of Poti. On connections are available from Poti to all of Europe and the East Coast of America.

CNC Freight Services Barges Turbine Components for Bakun Hydro-Electric Power Project

CNC Freight Services recently completed some interesting barge shipments for a major Malaysian power project in Bakun, Malaysia.  This shipment of turbine components was secured by CNC Freight Services directly with Impsa Malaysia Sdn Bhd.

“Our barge berthed after nine days sea journey at the construction site jetty which is approx. 90 km from the Bakun site,” said Patrick Lee, managing director of CNC Freight Services, “It took about 12 hours river navigation from Bintulu river mouth to Tubau jetty.  The discharging & RORO operation will be taking place tomorrow and we expect to finish all deliveries by April 24.

New GPLN Member: Transocean Shipping Transportagentur GesmbH

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Transocean Shipping Transportagentur GesmbH
Altmannsdorfer Str. 91
Vienna 1120 Austria
Tel.: +43 (1) 235 00 75 10
Fax: ++43 (1) 877 10 95

GPLN Directory Listing: http://www.gpln.net/directory.html

Contact:

Mr. Peter Czajkowski, Managing Director

Transocean Shipping (TOS) an Austrian based company which is good for our group as this has been a non-covered market before.  TOS has good project references from three different continents, including GPLN member USH Freight.

I look forward to hearing about Transocean Shipping working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Lysander Shipping (UK) Ltd

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Europe: United Kingdom: London

Lysander Shipping (UK) Ltd
Dawson House
131-135 High Street
New Malden KT3 4BH
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (208) 942 9420
Fax: +44 208 942 9427

Contacts:

Mr. Kim Lund, Managing Director & CEO
Mr. Dennis Frederiksen, Project Team

Europe: United Kingdom: Liverpool

Lysander Shipping (UK) Ltd
Suite 08, The Cotton Exchange
Old Hall Street
Liverpool L3 9LQ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 151 224 1500
Fax: +44 151 236 3653

Contacts:

Mr. Brian Kofoed, Director
Mr. Julian Brookshaw, Manager

Over the last 15 years Lysander Shipping has become one of the leading project forwarding companies in Europe. It is involved in major oil, power, gas, road and industrial projects worldwide. Lysander Shipping has also developed its expertise in moving explosives. IMO cargo Class 1, is moved regularly either by road, sea or air to around 30 countries around the world.

I look forward to hearing about Lysander Shipping working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Lion Shipping & Chartering SRL

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Lion Shipping & Chartering SRL
Str Progresului Nr 6, Bl G6 Sc C Ap 60
Constanţa 900003 Romania
Tel.: +40 (2) 4161 6594
Fax: +40 (2) 4161 1234

Contact:

Mr. Dragos Vieru, Managing Director
Mob: +40 (7) 2236 7614

Lion Shipping & Chartering is specialized sea freight, river freight, road freight for breakbulk / heavylifts / projects, ship broking / chartering, ship agency, cargo handling in Constanta Port.  They also can handle freight forwarding activities, especially regarding ocean cargo.  Lion Shipping & Chartering is also a FIATA member.

I look forward to hearing about Lion Shipping & Chartering working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Lionheart Project Logistics Inc.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Lionheart Project Logistics Inc.
32938 Tamina Road, Suite 102
Magnolia, Texas 77354 United States of America
Tel.: +1 (832) 934 0008
Fax: +1 (832) 934 0005

Contact:

Mr. Lothar Kammerer,Managing Director
Mobile: +1 (832) 403 5683

Lionheart Project Logistics Inc. is a Houston based project logistics company that also has a branch office in the Far East.  They specialize in engineering projects for power generation, have their own Federal Maritime Commission license and are members of the SC&RA as well.  Their references came back quite good and included companies with membership in GPLN.

I look forward to hearing about Lionheart Project Logistics working with other GPLN members very soon!

Nauri Logistics & Trans Trading Cooperate on Korea to US Cargo

Nauri Logistics recently arranged over length shipments for fellow GPLN member Trans Trading for a German customer. The cargo was a PSA Adsorber and a purge gas drum which had a volume of 2,835 m3 with a weight of 560 mt.

“The cargo loaded in Masan, in the very southern part of the Korean Peninsula,” said Mr. J.S. Moon, managing director of Nauri Logistics, “The cargo sailed a total of 34 days to the Port of Houston where it was discharged.  The goods were arranged on Rickmers since most of packages are out of gauge.”

One such piece had dimensions of 23.6m x 4.38m x 4.57m with a weight 46.5 t.

Both Trans Trading and Nauri Logistics gained their German customer’s gratitude for their good cooperation and received a letter of appreciation for a job well done!

New GPLN Member: Aaras Shipping Agencies Pvt Ltd

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Aaras Shipping Agencies Pvt Ltd
Room 701, 7th Floor, Business Plaza
Mumtaz Hassan Road, Off: I.I.Chundrighar Road
Karachi, Sind 74400 Pakistan
Tel.: +92 (21) 241 5450-1
Fax: +92 (21) 242 0412
Website: http://www.gpln.net/members/Asia-Australia-Oceania/Pakistan/Aaras_Shipping.html

Contact:

Mr. Akbar Ali, CEO

Aaras Shipping Agencies is a Karachi based specialist in chartering for breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargo.  They are especially well known for chartering to Afghanistan as well as having a department for professional logistics.  Aaras Shipping Agencies also acts as a ship’s agent in Karachi / Port Qasim.

I look forward to hearing about Aaras Shipping Agencies working with other GPLN members very soon!

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Ukraine: Odessa

Varamar
Bazarnaya 44, 7th Floor
Odessa 65125
Ukraine
Tel.: +380487340201
Fax: +380487340216
Website: http://www.gpln.net/directory.html

Contact:

Mr. Alexandre Varvarenko, Managing Director

Varamar is the agent for White Whale Shipping and focuses on shipping services for project, conventional and bulk cargoes.  Varamar is also involved in forwarding in Ukraine mainly when it is requested by clients who ask as for sea-freight as well and in rare cases they also cover Russia for this too.

I look forward to hearing about Varamar working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: East West Forwarding

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Netherlands: Rotterdam

East West Forwarding
Smirnoffweg 24-26
3088 HE, Rotterdam
Port Number 2370
Netherlands
Tel. +31 (10) 491 1366
Fax:  +31 (10) 491 1367

Contacts:

Mr. Pierre Rietveld, Oceanfreight / Chartering
Mr. Jan Maas, Projects / Oversized

Russia: Moscow

ZAO “EWF BV”
Edelveis, Right Entrance, 2nd Floor
Davidkovskaja Vlad.3
Moscow 121352, Russia
Tel.:  +7 (49) 5938 9966
Fax:  +7 (49) 5938 9967

Contacts:

Mrs. Anna Romejko, General Manager
Mr. Jan Maas, Projects / Oversized

Russia: St. Petersburg

OOO “EWF”
Business Center “Portal”
Office 223, 2nd Floor
Lifljandskaya Street d.6 lit “A”
St. Petersburg, Russia
Tel.: +7 (81) 2448 8801 – 2448 8810
Fax: +7 (81) 2448 8815 – 2448 8816

Contacts:

Mr. Alexander Bezpaly, General Manager
Mr. Jan Maas, Projects / Oversized
Mr. Dmitry Lubimov, Containers and Port-Operations

Long-term GPLN members will remember this company as East West Forwarding was a member in GPLN some time before.  They left on good terms in order to re-organize their company set up in Russia, which they have done already.  I have known Jan Maas for some time now and have recently met Pierre Rietveld and am impressed with their market knowledge in that part of the world.

I look forward to hearing about East West Forwarding working with other GPLN members very soon!

The GPLN Spring Tour 2009 was a rousing success!

I don’t even know where to begin!

Patrick and I just got back on Saturday from our three week journey to Munich, Tunis and Antwerp (with a one day side visit to Köln to see Southern fried rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert! – thanks again to Ralf Samorin for arranging the tickets for us!).  With as many days missed in the office as I have had in a long while I can still say that this was one heck of a productive time.

Transport Logistic 2009 turned out to be a major success for us in that with nearly 48,000 visitors and hundreds of exhibitors in eight exhibition halls GPLN was the only project logistics network that was represented.  Of course we saw some old friends but we made many new ones in the mean time.  The visit to Munich also was reinforced what I found in Russia the month before:  There are many good solid companies out there who know about the GPLN brand and view it very positively.

On the promotional front we debuted our GPLN baseball caps, which were a hit (no pun intended) with almost everyone.  These caps were passed out to members who attended the annual conference as well as serious GPLN prospects and other key players in the project cargo industry.  The hats are very special because on the bill (visor) of these caps are photos of moves done by GPLN members making each cap unique.

Tunis, in my opinion, was a testament to the group we have been building these past five years.  Like I said to the quorum in my opening presentation, we had gathered together in our room the most experienced group of professional project cargo experts in the world.  Other groups strive for what we have accomplished here and I really feel bad for the people who couldn’t make it.  By all the feedback I have received the meetings went very well between the members and both of our Gold Level Sponsors, Rickmers-Linie and Beluga Shipping, were well received!  (By the way, if you wanted copies of either the Rickmers or the Beluga presentations please let me know and I will try to arrange it for you.  Also, if you want a copy of the Beluga project cargo handbook let me know – I will need the complete address where Beluga can forward this to you though).

Besides the great meeting I would like to give a very special thanks to SNS International and Afrimar for sponsoring the most excellent banquet dinner that we have ever had in our six GPLN meetings!  Those who missed this dinner really missed a memorable time.  The location was superb, the weather was perfect, the food was top notch and even the sunset cooperated to make the evening great.  SNS International and Afrimar have definitely set the standard for how these banquet dinners could go.

Also we owe a special thank you to The Freight Company (Thailand) for sponsoring the welcome reception cocktail.  This was a very good mixer that got us all in the mood for a good meeting in a great location.

In Tunis we also got lots of business taken care of.  For those who saw my presentation they are aware of some up coming changes regarding membership terms and conditions as well as how we will approach participation in GPLN exhibition booths.  I also reminded everyone about getting me information for press releases, stories for newsletters and photos for the website.  And, not to deviate too much, but if you haven’t seen our photo gallery on the website recently, you really ought to take a look.  It gets more and more impressive as time marches on:  http://www.gpln.net/cpg1420/album.php

Finally, off to Antwerp for the BreakBulk Europe Conference & Exhibition 2009 where I was a panelist in one of the round table discussions (regarding what happens when project cargo is held for non-payment).  I found this conference greatly expanded in both space and in terms of bodies.  The conference nearly doubled in visitors from 1400 in 2008 to 2600 in 2009.  I met some really good prospects from other parts of the world as well such as Africa and Latin America.

For anyone who did not make it to these conferences all I can say is that some solid opportunities were there to be had.  I really hope you can make these events next year.  We really got lots of work done, got our names out there even more and built on our mutual relationships.  I am very tired after these three weeks, but at the same time I am very positive and optimistic about the future of our group!  I want to thank all of you who pitched in and made it such a great success.

New GPLN Member: USH Freight FZE

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

USH Freight FZE
6EA 721 East Wing, Al Twar II,
Dubai Airport Free Zone (DAFZA)
P.O.Box 37944 Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Tel.:  +971 (4) 299 3360
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Mr. Parvez Merchant, CEO
Mobile:  +971 (50) 559 1501

Mr. Clevin Correya, Deputy General Manager

USH Freight FZE is well recommended by Mohamed Osman of GPLN member Darka in Sudan of which they have moved quite a bit of large volume cargo together.  USH Freight also has a specialty in air charter for project cargo and they are quite active in this market.  Much of their clientele are in the oil & gas industry where they move heavy cargo by all modes throughout the Arabian Peninsula – most recently moving large land rigs in Oman and Qatar.  USH Freight also has a joint-venture for lashing and securing with Dutch based Pronk Multiservice BV.

I look forward to hearing about USH Freight working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Om Freight Forwarders Pvt. Ltd.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Om Freight Forwarders Pvt. Ltd.
101/102, A – Wing, Jayant Apartments
Opp. Sahar Cargo Complex,, Andheri East
Mumbai 400099 India
Tel.:  +91 (22) 2291 5074
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Mr. Vishal K. Joshi, Projects / Chartering
Mobile:  +91 (98) 1912 6957

Om Freight was founded in 1965 and has been on a path of growth ever since.  They are headquartered in Mumbai, where their projects and chartering department is also located, but they  have offices throughout India.  I met with Vishal Joshi, who is in charge of project cargo for Om Freight, in Singapore at the 1st Annual BreakBulk Asia Conference & Exhibition earlier this year where he described the capabilities of his company in India.  Vishal made a good impression and is quite knowledgeable in the Indian projects market.  His company has also come with several good project cargo references as well as a qualified history.

I look forward to hearing about Om Freight working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Afrimar Group

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Afrimar Group
PO Box 716
5 Rue IBN Rochd
Tunis 1001 Tunisia
Tel.:  +216 (71) 330 850
Fax:  +216 (71) 354 712
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Mr. Hassen Salah, Managing Director
Mobile:  +216 (98) 303 715

Mr. Taoufik Salah
Mobile:  +216 (98) 303 717

Afrimar is a multitalented company that offers services in project cargo, chartering, ship’s agency and international commercial logistics.  I was introduced to Mr. Hassen Salah by Efsun Saraç of GLPN member SNS International from Istanbul, Turkey.  Efsun’s company has completed many project shipments with Afrimar and praises them highly.  Besides their Tunisian headquarters Afrimar also has operations in Morocco, Algeria and Libya.

I look forward to hearing about the Afrimar Group working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Thocomar Shipping Agency

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Thocomar Shipping Agency
1 Rue Parent
PO Box 1781
Dakar, Senegal
Tel.:  +221 (33) 889 2626
Fax:  +221 (33) 822 7544
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Mr. Michel Thoumas
Mobile:  +221 (77) 637 3208

Ms. Tabaski Diène Camara
Mobile: + 221 (77) 529 4221

Thocomar Shipping Agency will be a great addition to GPLN as their membership goes very well with our push into Africa.  Besides getting four good references from well known companies on three separate continents I have also met the managing director, Mr. Michel Thoumas, in both Antwerp and in Dakar and spoken with him about his company in detail.  I also have met other companies, both in Africa and Europe who speak highly of Thocomar’s capabilities in a difficult market such as Senegal.  Thocomar not only handles cargo in Senegal but can also act as a transshipment partner for project cargo going to Mali, Mauretania, Gambia and Guinea.  In addition to Thocomar being a new member of GPLN, they are also members in Multiport, BIMCO, Intertanko and FONASBA.

I look forward to hearing about Thocomar Shipping working with other GPLN members very soon!

New GPLN Member: Cory Brothers Shipping Singapore

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Cory Brothers Shipping Singapore
210 Middle Road, #08-02
IOI Plaza
Singapore 188994
Tel.:  +65 (6) 339 3637
Fax:  +65 (6) 338 0177
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Mr. Keith Lee, Director
Mobile:  +65 (9) 638 8889

Mr. Arnold Loke

Cory Brothers Shipping Singapore is a trading division of Braemar Seascope Pte Ltd and the sister company of GPLN member in the United Kingdom, Cory Logistics.  Cory Brothers Shipping Singapore is involved not only with project cargo logistics but also ship agency.

I look forward to meeting Santiago Fontecilla very soon!

New GPLN Member: Nabros Transport Pvt Ltd

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Nabros Transport Pvt Ltd
37 P. D’Mello Road
Mumbai  400 009 India
Tel.:  +91 (22) 2374 5068
Fax:  +91 (22) 2375 7165
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Primary Contact:
Mr. Vasant Pathak, General Manager (Shipping & Projects)
Mobile:  +91 (98) 3398 5582

I met Vasant at BreakBulk Asia and his company showed a great interest from that point.  Nabros Transport started in 1969 and has a very good record of facilitating movement of oversized cargo.  Nabros also has its own fleet of transport which is versatile; and transport equipment which include flat beds, state of the art hydraulic axles and loading platforms is fully equipped to tackle any situation with confidence, endorsement coming in the form of its flawless record.

I look forward to meeting Vasant Pathak again very soon!

New GPLN Member: Shipping.dk Spain

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Shipping.dk Spain
Alameda Urquijo 28 -1
Bilbao, Bizkaia 48010 Spain
Tel.: + 34 (94) 444 1105
Fax: + 34 (94) 443 0746
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Primary Contact:
Mr. Santiago Fontecilla, Managing Director

Shipping.dk Spain is a branch operation of the Danish based group, Shipping.dk.  Besides project cargo, in Spain the group is involved in many interesting areas:  ship owners, ship operators, stevedores, liner agency, freight forwarding, ship’s brokers, etc.  With such an interesting mix of options Shipping.dk Spain should prove an asset to other GPLN members.

I look forward to meeting Santiago Fontecilla very soon!

New GPLN Member: SIFA Projets

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

SIFA Projets
23 Avenue du Québec
Z.A. de Courtaboeuf (1)
BP 70, Les Ulis Cedex 91942 France
Tel.:  +33 (1) 6918 9690
Fax:  +33 (1) 6918 9697
(See their profile:  http://www.gpln.net/directory.html)

Contacts:

Primary Contact:
Mr. Didier Harant, Directeur Adjoint
Mobile: +33 (6) 7608 8351
Skype:  projetsdh

SIFA Projets is the project arm of Paris based SIFA Group.  The SIFA Group was founded in July 1951 and the transports and logistics departments started in 1973.  SIFA’s challenge was to create a massive network of 100% owned subsidiaries not only in France but also in the French West Indies (Martinique and Guadaloupe), French Guiana, Indian Ocean (Reunion), New Caledonia and also Brazil.  All SIFA subsidiaries have their own bonded warehouse which constitutes full integrated equipments to propose global logistics products to customers.

Also, a bit of trivia…  The Paris commune where SIFA Projets is based, Les Ulis, is the birthplace and hometown of Thierry Henry!

I hope to see Didier Harant in Tunis for our upcoming annual meeting!

New GPLN Member: ECS Project Cargo S.L.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

ECS Project Cargo S.L.
C/ Teniente Maroto 3-3
11201 Algeciras (Cadiz) Spain
Tel.:  +34 (9) 0240 4208
Fax:  +34 (9) 5665 7417

Primary Contact:
Mr. José Castro de La Cuesta, Logistics Coordinator
Mobile:  +34 (6) 0938 3718

Secondary Contact:
Mr. Antonio J. Cózar Gómez, General Manager

ECS Project cargo is a well known projects company in the Southwest of Spain who is particularly well known in the wind turbine industry.  They came with several good references both from this industry and from other experienced projects companies.

I hope to see ECS Project Cargo in Tunis for our upcoming annual meeting!

New GPLN Member: Scan-Trans Project Services S.L.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Scan-Trans Project Services S.L.
Gran via de les corts catalanes nº 133 – 6º
Barcelona, Spain
Tel.:  +34 (9) 3421 0285
Fax:  +34 (9) 3332 4401

Contacts:

Mr. Alvaro Javier Molina, Managing Director
Mobile:  +34 (6) 6133 6244

Ms. Sonia Balmaseda, Commercial
Mobile:  +34 (6) 3900 9976

Mr. Peter Bendix Eriksen, Chartering
Mobile:  +34 (6) 8033 8455

Scan-Trans Project Services is a well known company in the projects world.  In Spain they are owners / operators specialists in transportation and logistics for project cargo as well as military cargo and IMO shipments.

I hope to see Alvaro in Tunis for our upcoming annual meeting!

New GPLN Member: UAB Bellville Rodair International Baltic

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

UAB Bellville Rodair International Baltic
Minijos G. 2-304 Address 2:
Klaipeda LT91234 Lithuania
Tel.:  +370 (4) 648 4901
Fax:  +370 (4) 648 4901

Contact:  Mr. Joel Higgins, Commercial Director

UAB Bellville Rodair International Baltic is a sister company to the Bellville Rodair offices in Central and Eastern Europe that are already members of GPLN for some time now.  This office has a speciality of shipping agricultural machinery as well as handling cargo for the wind energy and oil & gas industries as well as African medical projects.  Joel Higgins likes to think of their operation as not only serving the Baltic region but also as serving as a broader gateway to Russia and other CIS regions.

I welcome Joel Higgins and his company to our GPLN team and I look forward to seeing him in Tunis for our annual meeting!

New GPLN Member: Great Ocean Shipping Services FZE

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Great Ocean Shipping Services FZE
Office 404, 4th Floor, Block B-1
PO Box 3671
Ajman Free Zone
United Arab Emirates
Tel.  +971 (6) 747 4008
Fax:  +971 (6) 747 4009
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/GreatOceanShipping

Contact1:  Mr. B.S. Chauhan, General Manager
Mobile:  +971 (50) 381 3022

Contact2:  Mr. Jamal Sakran, Director
Mobile:  +971 (50) 615 6625

Contact3:  Mr. Shone Mathew, Manager Marketing / Sales
Mobile:  +971 (50) 278 5911

Ajman based Great Ocean Shipping Services FZE is actively involved in shipping project cargo, heavy lift and over dimensional cargo as well as RO/RO on chartered vessels in their capacity as ship brokers or forwarders.  Great Ocean Shipping is especially good in earth moving equipment and they accept cargo to and from the entire world.

I look forward to seeing them at our meeting in Tunis!

New GPLN Member: Paragon Shipping & Logistics W.L.L.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Paragon Shipping & Logistics W.L.L.
P.O. Box 32062
Doha 32062 Qatar
Tel.:  +974 (4) 644 051
Fax:  +974 (4) 644 016
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/ParagonShipping

Contact:  Mr. Anup Nambiar, Managing Director

Paragon Shipping & Logistics is a member of the Paragon Group of Companies who is an amalgamation of several industrial companies based in Qatar.  Paragon Shipping not only handles heavy lift and project cargo but also has experience in project base camp operations and waste management logistics.  I had the pleasure of meeting Anup Nambiar at BreakBulk Asia in Singapore recently as well and was impressed with him.  They will make a great addition to the team!

I look forward to seeing them represented in Tunis as well.

New GPLN Member: Interfracht

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Interfracht
Bergiusstrasse 1
D-28816 Stuhr-Brinkum
Germany
Tel.:  +49 (4) 2187 1500
Fax: +49 (4) 2187 150215
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/Interfracht

Contact1:  Mr. Andreas Grimm, Managing Director

Contact2:  Mr. Tobias Karrasch, Vice President

Interfracht has been recommended as a member of GPLN by current GPLN members Spedition Herbst and Celtic Forwarding as well as by other references in other parts of the world.  Although Interfracht has several offices they have a single hub for project cargo.  Interfracht has good experience in multimodal transportation and chartering by both ocean and air as well.  They also are hazmat specialists and carry out the shipment of dangerous goods of all classes using whatever mode of transport is required.

I look forward to seeing them in Tunis!

New GPLN Member: Hindustan Cargo Ltd.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Hindustan Cargo Ltd.
Gajendra No. 53 HAL II Stage
Shirdi Sai Mandir Road, Cambridge
Layour, Bangalore 560 008.
Karnataka, India
Tel.: +91 (98) 2040 4865
Fax: +91 (80) 4126 1496
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/HindustanCargo

Contact:  Mr. Pandey Girish, Director of Industrial Projects

Besides having good references from various well known project agents such as DHL Industrial Projects (Germany) Hindustan Cargo also came with references from the Italian company Tecnimont and several divisions of General Electric in the United States, India and the Middle East.  Hindustan Cargo is an asset based logistics company that owns 57 cranes from 100 t to 750 t, they have 375 trailers, including 24 Goldhofers.  They also own three container freight stations around various points in India and they have their own customs brokerage license.

I look forward to seeing Pandey at our meeting in Tunis!

New GPLN Member: High Seas Shipping & Forwarding Company

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

High Seas Shipping & Forwarding Company
31 Ebn Zaidon – Mizran Street
PO Box 91618
Tripoli, Libya
Tel.:  +218 (2) 1334 4365
Fax:  +218 (2) 1334 4365
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/HighSeasShipping

Contact:  Mr. Kamal Ibrahim

Contact2:  Captain Khaled Al Montaser, Chairman
Mobile:  +218 (9) 1212 4433

High Seas Shipping was established in 1999 and covers all of the Libyan ports with offices in Tripoli (head office and GPLN member office), Benghazi, Misurata and in Tobruk.  They had good project cargo references from both cargo agents and project owners.  Besides handling project cargo they also are specialists in ship agency and chartering and they also operate as ship chandlers.

They make a great addition to GPLN’s team and we expect them at our meeting in Tunis this May!

New GPLN Member: Lomer Point Bridge

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Lomer Point Bridge
BNC Business Centre, Office 316
30 Sain Street
Almaty 050031 Kazakhstan
Tel.:   +7 (72) 7334 1445
Fax:   +7 (72) 7334 1449
Contact:  Ms. Margarita Lazaridi, Project Manager
Mobile:  +7 (77) 7547 0047
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/LomerPointBridge

This company comes to us with good references.  I met them last year in Shanghai at the Transport Logistichina and they finally decided to join our group.  We welcome them aboard!

If there is any way that I can help you or if you have any questions about the group I am more than happy to help out.

AFP Successfully Finishes a Complex Cement Plant Project in Tanzania

We have a bit going on in Africa as well these days…

The GPLN member Access Freight Projects (AFP) has recently been involved in the delivery of a 3500 TPD cement plant ex Mumbai to Tanga, Tanzania. The project is being commissioned by a Kenyan mining and cement manufacturing conglomerate who ordered the new cement plant to be commissioned at their existing Lime plant near the Tanzania port of Tanga (North of Dar es Salaam).

Coming off the back of the successful delivery of a 1000 TPD turn key cement plant project at Ndola, Zambia, in 2006 and the successful completion of two other major materials bulk handling projects in Zambia in 2007 for the same manufacturer of the Tanga cement plant, the shipper naturally turned to Access to come up with a solution for the delivery of this new cement plant project in Tanga.

“Although this contract would be FOB, the shipper strongly recommended the Access and its partners to the client as the only logistics provider to handle a project of this scope,” said Brad Stephens, COO for Projects at AFP, “And this was a recommendation that the importer later decided to follow. Our AFP projects team immediately traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanga and Mombasa and together with our local heavy lift expert agents conducted a port feasibility study and route survey.”
The options for discharge were Dar es Salaam Port, Tanga Port and Mombasa Port for onward delivery to the site some 20kms outside Tanga. The cargo comprised of 1,457 mt and 5,148 m3 of break bulk cargo and some 300 TEU of containers. The largest single pieces of breakbulk were mill shells of 15.5m long and 4.5m in diameter and weighing 105 mt each.

It was clear that the break bulk would require a geared charter vessel capable of lifting this massive cargo.

“While Tanga was obviously the closest port, it is not necessarily the best solution being that it is not served directly from any port other than Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, “said Brad Stephens, “This meant that cargo would have to be transshipped at one of these ports. Dar es Salaam has its advantages of direct sailings from Mumbai but port congestion is a concern and the bridge weight limitations ruled out the route from Dar to Tanga for the break bulk.”

Tanga port is a natural harbor but is also very shallow and ocean going vessels cannot berth alongside the main quay. Ships have to anchor midstream and discharge to lighter barges which ferry the cargo across to the quay. There are only 2 x 45 mt shore cranes designed for container handling positioned on the quay so this also meant that the break bulk charter vessel would not be able to discharge directly in Tanga.

“Our route survey from Tanga to Mombasa revealed that discharge in Mombasa and onward delivery by road from there to Tanga would also not be possible due to the weight limitations of the bridges on that route,” said Stephens, “Finally a solution was resolved to charter the break bulk vessel to Mombasa where it would discharge the cargo midstream to a massive sea going barge. The barge would be pre-loaded with a crawler crane and the multi-axle lowbeds and temporary propping stools for the heaviest cargo. The barge would then sail South from Mombasa to Tanga and with her shallow draft come alongside the quay at Tanga. The lowbeds would then drive off with the cargo directly to site. For the super heavy pieces, the multi-axle lowbed would drive under the stools and jack up the cargo onto its load bed to deliver the cargo to site. For the containers we resolved to transship to barge in Dar es Salaam and deliver to Tanga on through bills.”

Last month the first consignment of break bulk cargo was successfully transported according to the plan and all pieces were delivered without any reported incidents or near misses – quite a feat considering the infrastructural limitations in that part of the world!

New GPLN Member: Links Shipping Company WLL

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Links Shipping Company WLL
P.O. Box 5763 Doha, Qatar
Tel:  +974 (4) 477 727
Fax:  +974 (4) 361 519
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/LinksShipping

Contact:  Mr. Jaber Al-Shahwani, Managing Director
Mobile: +974 (5) 523 200

The Links organization was established in 2000 as an in-house entity handling operations and agency for a dedicated fleet of vessels.  In 2005, Links became an independent marine service organization and since then has enjoyed a steady growth, evolving into a company which can offer a wide range of marine services.  They now have three operational divisions:  Marine Division, Forwarding Division and Removals Division.  They provided several good references for project cargo they have handled in the past, including Hamid Lodhi of Zuhal Shipping in Dubai, who has been working with them for years.

I look forward to seeing Jaber at the annual meeting in Tunis this May!

New Look and New Faces at TFC

Some new news from our GPLN members in Vietnam and China, The Freight Company…

The Freight Company recently changed its corporate identity with new logo and website. As well they have two new faces to introduce to the GPLN team…

Thomas Meyer recently left TFC Vietnam for other opportunities in a different field and he has been replaced as TFC’s representative in Vietnam by Peter Schüpbach who is a forty-one year old logistics veteran from Switzerland with twenty years in the industry.

TFC China recently employed Thomas Ofner in the capacity of sales manager at the Beijing office. Thomas is a 23 year old Austrian. He will also be largely put onto project supervision jobs starting with jobs for a major cement manufacturer.

We wish Peter and Thomas the best in their new assignments!

New GPLN Member: Nordic Wave AB Filial I Finland

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Europe: Finland: Helsinki

Nordic Wave AB Filial I Finland
Lintulahdenkatu 2
00500 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 (9) 8563 4500
Fax. +358 (9) 8563 4509
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/NordicWaveFinland

Contacts:
Mr. Mikko Yli-Rahko, Branch Manager, Projects
Tel.:  +358 (9) 8563 4501 (Direct)
Mobile:  +358 (94) 0016 4420

Mr. Tapio Laurinen, Projects Operations
Tel.:  +358 (9) 8563 4503

Ms. Heini Klami, Project Operations
Tel. +358 (9) 8563 4502

Mr. Tommi Antikainen, General Manager

Europe: Norway: Oslo

Nordic Wave NUF
Fred Olsensgate 1
N-0152 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 (2) 291 0540
Fax. +47 (2) 291 0549
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/NordicWaveNorway

Contacts:
Mr. Roy Enger, Branch Manager / Projects
Mobile: +47 (9) 060 5028

Ms. Helene Traberg, Operations / Projects
Mobile. +47 (9) 507 0021

Mr. Rune Enger, General Manager
Mobile. +47 (9) 151 2943

Europe: Sweden: Gothenburg

Nordic Wave AB
Andra Långgatan 19
S-41328 Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel. +46 (31) 724 3300
Fax. +46 (31) 724 3333
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/NordicWaveSweden

Contacts:
Ms. Marna Edmark, Branch Manager / Projects
Tel: +46 (31) 724 3302

Ms. Linda Norén, Operations / Projects
Tel. +46 (31) 724 3303

Mr. Peter Mike, Manager
Mobile. +46 (31) 724 3300

Nordic Wave was recommended to join GPLN by our member SAWECO but they also had several other recommendations on projects they had undertaken, especially with their Finland and Norway branches.  Their footprint covers many of the Nordic countries but they have handling capabilities for project cargo worldwide.

We welcome them to our group!

CNC Freight Services Celebrate Chinese New Year

I was sent these pictures by Patrick Lee of GPLN member CNC Freight Services. CNC Freight recently held their year end party and all staff reportedly had a great time celebrating the outgoing year. It looks like they all had a great time!

But this isn’t the only party they will have in 2009.

“This year (2009) will be our Golden Jubilee as we are already 10 years in business,” said Patrick Lee, managing director of CNC Freight Services, “We have grown from initial staff of 4 person to a stable number of 25 people.  We hope to make a big ‘bash’ and perhaps invite some GPLN members to join our celebration in Malaysia!”

The ten year celebration will tentatively held sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year.  I hope Patrick sends me an invite.  It will give me a reason to visit Malaysia again.

New GPLN Member: Starlight Maritime Ltd.

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Starlight Maritime Ltd.
Cargo Village
Baghdad International Airport (BIAP)
Baghdad, Iraq
Tel: +964 (7) 901 422
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/StarlightMaritime

Contact:  Mr. Talab Ali
Mobile:  +964 (79) 0142 2144

Starlight Maritime is a project specialist with several offices in Iraq (Baghdad, Erbil, Sumailaniah, Basra and Umm Qasr Port) and in their group they also have affiliate offices in the UK, China, UAE, Turkey and Jordan.  They are specialists on chartering and forwarding logistics as well as overland trucking.  Also Starlight Maritime has a sister company, Starlight Airlines, that is specialized in air transport to Iraq from Dubai as well as air charter so they are well rounded for all modes of transportation in, to and from Iraq.

I welcome them on board!

New GPLN Member: KorTrans Company Ltd.

KorTrans Company Ltd.
5th Fl., Seogang Bldg.
1-3, Shinsu-Dong, Mapo-Ku
Seoul, Korea
Tel.:  +82 (2) 3279 3003
Fax:  +82 (2) 3279 3030
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/KorTrans

Contact:  Mr. H.S. Kwon, Managing Director
Mobile:  +82 (11) 771 9689

This company had glowing recommendations from their references from several parts of the world. KorTrans has been involved in the shipping and the handling of massive projects, specially combined large-scale shipment for electrical power stations, steel mill plants and petrochemical plants.  Kortrans has a team of highly experienced and trained project professionals who offer customized services to the client’s work site including emergency handling for replacement, repair and return, equipment loan and return regardless of the size, risk or sensitivity of the project.

And besides that, a little trivia, their office is near to my old apartment in Seoul!

New GPLN Member: Jumbo Transport Solution A/S

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Jumbo Transport Solution A/S
Lokesvej 8
DK-8230 Åbyhøj
Denmark
Tel.: +45 (8) 675 4575
Fax: +45 (8) 675 4576
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/JumboTransportSolution

Contact1:  Mr. Ole Petersen. Director
Tel.:  +45 (8) 675 4571 (Direct)
Mobile: +45 (2) 558 4571

Contact2:  Mr. Dennis Nybro Sorensen, Operation Manager Road
Tel.:  +45 (8) 675 4572 (Direct)
Mobile: +45 (2) 558 4572

Contact1:  Mrs. Jessie Mikkelsen, Operations Manager Air / Sea
Tel.:  +45 (8) 675 4570
Mobile: +45 (2) 992 9056

Jumbo Transports highly qualified project logistics team have many years of experience in handling project freight business for industrial firms and construction engineering companies all around the world.  They are specialists in trouble-free, careful and on-schedule shipments and handling of oversized cargo, heavy loads and entire industrial plants and have many long standing clients in Denmark who are on the cutting edge of global industry.

We look forward to seeing Jumbo at our annual global meeting in Tunisia this May!

New GPLN Member: Spedition Herbst GmbH

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Spedition Herbst GmbH
Parkallee 101
Bremen 28209 Germany
Contact1:  Mr. Georg Bödeker, Director Overseas Projects Division
Contact2:  Mr. Ralf Böse, Director European Heavy and Special Transport Division
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/SpeditionHerbst

Herbst was founded as a family owned business and has been in the project forwarding industry for many years.  They came with many solid recommendations including recommendations from GPLN members in good standing as well as several other prominently known companies in the heavy lift business.

We expect to see Herbst at our global meeting in Tunis and also most likely at the BreakBulk Europe in Antwerp.

New GPLN Member: Lomer Point Bridge

The Global Project Logistics Network is happy to announce:

Lomer Point Bridge
BNC Business Centre, Office 316
30 Sain Street
Almaty 050031 Kazakhstan
Tel.:   +7 (72) 7334 1445
Fax:   +7 (72) 7334 1449
Contact:  Ms. Margarita Lazaridi, Project Manager
Mobile:  +7 (77) 7547 0047
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/LomerPointBridge

This company, formerly known as Alternativ Kazakhstan is a French invested company and part of the Mory Group in France.  Lomer Point Bridge comes to us with good references.  I met them last year in Shanghai at the Transport Logistichina and they finally decided to join our group.  We welcome them aboard!

If there is any way that I can help you or if you have any questions about the group I am more than happy to help out.