Heavy transport throughout two continents
When outsized industrial containers journey by truck or ship, it often does not simply look spectacular, there’s additionally lots of logistical fingertip feeling behind it. Within the case of an almost 60-ton autoclave, a gas-tight sealable strain vessel, DACHSER pooled the experience of its Air & Sea Logistics groups in Germany and India and transported the outsized strain vessel from the producer in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany to Bangalore in southern India. A customer-oriented strategy and exact planning by the worldwide groups have been key.
A German equipment and plant producer commissioned DACHSER to move the 60-ton heavyweight. A swiveling machine and a container ring chair weighing one other 5 tons have been additionally a part of the transport order. The scale of the autoclave alone have been spectacular, with a size of over 15 meters and a diameter of greater than 5 meters. The vacation spot: an aerospace firm in Bangalore. The metropolis of tens of millions is a crucial location for the Indian high-tech trade.
Experience and know-how in demand
After intensive preparation and planning, the autoclave left the plant in Coesfeld close to Münster in Germany and arrived by flatbed truck in close by Lüdinghausen. There, it was loaded by a 450-ton cell crane onto an inland vessel, which transported the colossus by river to Antwerp. From there, the container traveled as break bulk, a non-containerized heavy elevate, on a container ship to Chennai, India, on the Bay of Bengal. The voyage took 21 days.
“The success of such challenge shipments stands and falls with the shut coordination and cooperation of all events concerned, in order that the gears mesh neatly,” says Claus Freydag, Managing Director Air & Sea Logistics Germany at DACHSER. “With our customer-focused strategy, personalized options and world community of logistics consultants, we’re a dependable associate in relation to challenge transport.”
Meticulous transport planning in India
In Chennai, the groups from DACHSER India took over. They have been answerable for the virtually 350-kilometer journey of the plant parts from the port to the client’s website in Bangalore. Even earlier than arrival on the port of Chennai, acceptable preparations needed to be made for the highway transport of the large-format industrial elements.
The groups from DACHSER India additionally organized permits with town administration to maneuver the low-loader. All 28 tires have been changed to permit the trailer to move via a railway underpass. In entrance of the plant itself, concrete separation blocks needed to be eliminated in order that the automobile may flip round there. Final however not least, excavation pits within the plant itself have been stuffed in to permit supply.
All the two-week journey in India was supervised by a separate escort automobile. “Due to the meticulous planning of the groups and the shut cooperation of everybody concerned, we as soon as once more mastered this not fairly on a regular basis cargo,” says Huned Gandhi, Managing Director Indian Subcontinent at DACHSER. “It’s all the time spectacular to see how our worldwide groups work hand in hand and ship prime logistical efficiency on this manner,” provides Edoardo Podestà, COO Air & Sea Logistics at DACHSER.
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