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January – February, 2009

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NEWSLETTER T h e O f f i c i a l V o i c e o f t h e G l o b a l P r o j e c t L o g i s t i c s N e t w o r k ( G P L N )

Issue No. 08

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

• Flinterrachel Christened in Stroobos! P.1

• SCACLI Moves Large HP/LP Column Box P.2

• Wilhelmsen Ships Service wins Raz Az Zuwr Port Project P.2

• AFP Delivers Cement Plant to Tanzania P.3

• Europe Cargo ships Gottwald Port Cranes to Tunisia P.5

• CNC Freight Services and Waiver Logistics Cooperate on Rig Moves P.6

• Oceanbridge Shipping assists in repatriation of Racing Yacht P.7

• CNC Freight Services Celebrate Chinese New Year P.8

• Wirtz Shipping Transports and Erects Large Splitter Column P.8

• Asif Siddiqui joins Wilhelmsen Ships Service in Dammam P.9

• Evgeniy Poltavets joins Kaalbye Projects P.9

• Flinter is expanding in Scandinavia P.9

• New Look and New Faces at TFC P.9

• Dacotrans de Centroamérica delivers ABB Trafos P.10

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FlinterrachelChristened

The Flinter Group’s latest vessel, the Flinterrachel, was recently successfully christened in the city of Stroobos, Netherlands, by Mrs. Mira Delibalt-Zotiadou, wife of an important customer of Flinter. With great interest of participants and other relations subsequently the vessel was launched.

The vessels are managed in cooperation with Flinter by three captain owners: Mr. Ron van Scherpenzeel, Mr. Fabian van Wijk and Mr. Erik Wiersma.

Gulf Maritime Services is New Agent for Ceylon ShippingCeylon Shipping Corporation Ltd. (CSCL), the nation-al carrier of Sri Lanka, has appointed GPLN member Gulf Maritime Services as their agent in Pakistan. The agency agreement was recently signed by Mr. Y.L.S. Hameed, the chairman and executive director of CSCL, and Mr. Nissar Yusuf Ahmed, chief executive of Gulf Maritime. Gulf Maritime is one of the leading ship agency and logistics companies in Pakistan.

“It is the intention to use these vessels for our new regular liner service from Antwerp to and from Med and Black Sea ports,” said Michel Janssens, Manag-ing Director of Flinter Belgium.

Delivery of the vessel is expected for the 5th of March. All participants will receive a separate invitation to be present at this event. The Flinterrachel is the sister vessel of the Flinterrebecca. Both vessels operate in Flinter Vlootfonds I CV.

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A Word fromGary Dale...We are well into the new year 2009 now and there is lots going on in our group. Even throughout this global economic crisis we are growing very healthily with pretty much a record number of new members in the last two months of 2008. I think this shows that project logistics compa-nies are very practical and are still investing in promoting their companies’ services. And GPLN has shown itself to be the best choice around for project logistics networks in the past few years by having a narrow focus on project logistics – an area where some competitors have seemingly stumbled.

As far as the industry promotion we will have lots of fi rsts this year: We will have our fi rst exhibi-tions we attend in Africa and Russia. When our 6th annual general meeting kicks off our meeting in Tunisia in mid-May it will mark our fi rst go at having the meeting on the African continent. And in 2010 we would like to take it a step further and promote our activities in Latin America by participating in events there as well.

But the event at hand is the 1st BreakBulk Asia Conference & Exhibition which is held in Singapore on February 17th – 18th. We will put up two booths together there and we expect more than 14 GPLN members to participate. And I have been asked by the Journal of Commerce to be on a panel for a round table discussion, which is a fi rst as well. So GPLN is moving forward to more and more fi rsts…

We wouldn’t have it any other way!

Best regards,

Gary Dale CearleyExecutive DirectorGlobal Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

SCACLI Moves Large HP/LP Column Box

GPLN member Sea Cargo Air Cargo Logisitics Inc. (SCACL) of Mississauga, Ontario, recently completed an exceptional move in Canada of a high pressure / low pressure (HP/LP) column box which measured 300 feet (91.44 m) and took trailers of 32 lines. There was a total weight 810,000 lbs (367,400 mt) on the road!

The cargo started at Nanticoke, on the Niagara Pen-insula in southern Ontario on the north shore of Lake Erie. The column was previously shipped from the UK and offl oaded directly at the power plant. It started

at the generating station and was moved to an industrial park 12 kilometers away.

“The trailer had to be reconfi gured before crossing the only bridge half way through,” said Laurent Mon-tignon, director of SCACL, “The road was closed to traffi c and the box put on stools while the rear trailer was reconfi gured and extended before the bridge was ready to cross. Traffi c lights where also dismantled in order to negotiate turns. The entire move took 9 hours.”

Wilhelmsen Ships Service recently signed a contract with China Harbour Engineering Company for vessels agency with customs clearance and delivery to their harbor construction site in Ras Az Zuwr which is 250 kilometers from Dammam Port.

Over the past four months we have customs cleared delivered over 200 out of gauge trailers of steel formations plus in excess of 100 containers of project supplies,” said Russell Dinwoodie, Business Development Manager for Wilhelmsen Ships Service, “This project is scheduled to continue for the next two years.”

The purpose of the project is to build a harbor for the port of Raz Az Zuwr which is owned by the Saudi Port Authority. The main contractor is China Harbour Company.

“The most challenging part of this mission so far has been customs clearance of huge volumes with trans-port to this remote location under strict deadlines,” said Russell Dinwoodie, “China Harbour Company has teams of workers who arrive on site for the construction of specifi c items as and when they are cleared and delivered. As well there are certain items that are required from time to time which hold large sections of work up if not delivered on time.”

Wilhelmsen Ships Service wins RazAz Zuwr Port Project





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 1000TPD 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 recommen-dation 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 Slaam 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 break bulk being 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 trans-shipped 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 having 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.”

AFP Delivers Cement Plant to Tanzania





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Europe Cargo recently completed the successful shipment of one erected mobile Gottwald Port Cranes from Antwerp to Gabès Port in Tunisia

The cargo was a total of 12 packag-es plus one crane. The total weight and volume were 270,162 kg and 17.220.47 m3. The crane itself had a weight of 204,800 kg with dimen-sions 51.35 m x 12.20 m x 27.30 m.

“The shipment was done on the heavy lift carrier M/S Beluga Family which loaded in the port of Antwerp,” said Fred Konings, General Manager of Europe Cargo, “Loading started at

0630 hrs and was completed at 1210 hrs. Lashing and securing were com-pleted at 2130 hrs and the vessel sailed on 0940 hrs on the very next morning.”

Europe Cargo Antwerp coordinated the reception of cargo on terminal in Antwerp, the welding of the steel plates on deck for spreading the weight of the crane on deck, loading on board M/S Beluga Family, the lashing and securing of the crane on deck of the vessel as well as the ship’s agency for the vessel.

Europe Cargo ships Gottwald Port Cranes to Tunisia





GPLN member CNC Freight Services collaborated with GPLN member Waiver Logistics SA to arrange part charter vessel for 3 unit Land Rigs / 6000 frt from Shanghai to Natal, Brazil.

“This project demonstrated an outstanding example on the benefi t of business networking in action and the importance of having a strong aggressive overseas partner in the project forwarding business,” said Patrick Lee, managing director of CNC Freight Services.

Originally, the decision for the shipping arrangement was to be made by a Malaysian client of CNC Freight Services and Waiver Logistics was enlisted to look

into the trade requirements for importation of the rigs. This was to ensure the smooth delivery of equipment at Brazil upon its arrival. After meeting their counter-part, the importer decided to extent scope of works to Waiver Logistics for on carriage at Natal to the drilling site at Mossoro.

However, halfway through the project, the Malaysian party decided to pull out of the project and decision for shipping went back to the Brazilian buyer. With several months of working on all aspects of tackling

the logistics requirement as well as the fi ne details of dealing with custom formalities, Waiver Logistics per-severed working on the project and succeeded in se-curing the port to door logistics contract directly from the importer.

Upholding the spirit of cooperation and networking, CNC Freight Services was retained by Wavier Logistics to handle the arrangement of the ocean vessel from Shanghai to Brazil.

CNC Freight Services and Waiver Logistics Cooperate on Rig Moves

● Integrated transport expertise● Abnormal indivisible loads● Water borne solutions a speciality● Total project management services

For information contactTel: +44 (0) 131 554 6631Tel: +44 (0) 1394 601139Email: [email protected]





Oceanbridge Shipping in Auckland have recently shipped the Open 60 “Paprec Virbac” from Auckland to Le Havre.

The yacht was competing in the Vendee Globe single handed non-stop round the world race from Les Sables d’Olonne, France, when bad luck hit the skipper, Jean-Pierre Dick, while leading the race. He damaged one of the rudders and shortly after fi xing that damaged the other beyond repair and turned back towards New Zealand.

As a keen yachtsman (and a circumnavigator himself) Oceanbridge Shipping’s Projects and Marine Manager, Richard Thorpe, was on the case immediately. Shortly after the team announced the yacht was retiring and heading for New Zealand Richard was already looking at options for getting the yacht back to France as quickly as possible.

The yacht made land fall on the morning of 13th January and within a couple of hours there was a meeting between the yachting team’s two shore crew, a couple of local suppliers and Oceanbridge Shipping. The option to ship on a vessel departing in a week was discussed. The yacht team did not think this was possible but with the knowledge and exper-tise that Oceanbridge has, and with the support of others in the NZ marine industry, they were able to assure them the timing was fi ne.

Within three days the yacht was out of the water, a cradle made, the mast was out and the keel and bulb removed. After this the mast was packed separately while the yacht and keel were loaded into the cradle and the yacht then shrink wrapped. The whole package was ready to be moved to the wharf with two days to spare.

On the 20th January the yacht and mast were successfully loaded on board the Maersk Dunafare bound for Tanjung Pelepas. Here the yacht was discharged under supervision of a local representa-tive for Oceanbridge Shipping before being reloaded on the Maersk Semarang bound for Le Havre from where it will be trucked to L’Orient.

“It is an honor to be able to assist these teams at the pinnacle of yacht racing, said Richard Thorpe. “It is sad that the team ended up in Auckland in the fi rst place, especially having had to retire whilst leading the race, but it was great to be able to offer a solution and get the yacht on its way home with the least amount of worry and as quickly as possible for the team”.

Oceanbridge Shipping assists in repatriation of Racing Yacht

Upcoming GPLN Meetings & Events

*If you would like to add an eventplease send details to: [email protected]

1st Breakbulk Asia Transportation Conference & ExhibitionFebruary 17th – 18th, 2009Suntec Singapore International Convention CentreSingapore

7th Intermodal Africa 2009 Conference & Exhibition March 25th – 26th, 2009Le Méridien President HotelDakar, Senegal

14th TransRussiaApril 21st – 24th, 2009ExpocentreMoscow, Russia

12th TransportLogistic 2009May 12th – 15th, 2009New Munich Trade Fair CentreMunich, Germany

6th GPLN Annual General MeetingMay 20th – 22nd, 2009Hôtel Golden Tulip Carthage TunisTunis, Tunisia

4th Annual Breakbulk EuropeConference & ExhibitionMay 26th – 28th, 2009Antwerp ExpoAntwerp, Belgium

20th Annual Breakbulk TransportationConference & ExhibitionOctober 13th - 15th, 2009Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterNew Orleans, Louisiana

5th Trans Middle East 2009November 24th – 25th, 2009Gulf International ConventionAnd Exhibition CentreManama, Bahrain





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Wirtz Shipping was awarded a con-tract to erect a 50.5 m high splitting column at the Oleon plant in Ertvelde, Belgium.

As the column was too long for deliv-ery by road ex-Germany, the column was cut in half. The lower part of the column was approximately 25.8 m long and the upper part was ap-proximately 24 x 7 m long. Both parts together weighed about 65 tons.

“We arranged for the transfer of the two parts in Germany from suppliers’ premises to another German company where a pressure test had to be done,” said Peter Heuten of Wirtz Shipping, “Later both columns were transported by convoy to Ertvelde, Belgium, where the crane was built up. The crane’s outreach had to be 27 m therefore a special jib had to be fi t-ted onto the 700 t crane.”

Afterwards the bottom part of the column was put in place. Lifting had to be done with a 700 t crane, and a 160 t tail crane. On the same day the upper part of the column was put into place, where after welding operations started. Welding was undertaken 24 hrs non-stop during which the crane

had to hold the piece in place the entire time. When this was done the frame around the upper part of the column was put into place in order to complete the operation.

The job wasn’t without its other frus-trations.

“The most challenging part came when the erection of the bottom part of the column was to begin on a Saturday but before we could start it was discovered that the spreader for lifting was missing!” said Peter Heuten, “Trying to get the spreader de-livered on Saturday was an impossible operation and resulted in a lot of wait-ing time and lots of frustrations on the Saturday. In the end the erection was postponed to Monday!”

Through it all there was a happy ending.

“Mission accomplished,” said Peter Heu-ten, “And as you may have noticed, although Wirtz Shipping is specialized in waterside operations, it is also very strong in landside operations!”

Wirtz Shipping Transports and Erects Large Splitter Column

CNC Freight ServicesCelebrateChinese New Year

CNC Freight recently held their year end party and all staff reportedly had a great time celebrating the outgoing year. 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.





Flinter is expanding in Scandinavia

Evgeniy Poltavets joinsKaalbye Projects

Asif Siddiqui joinsWilhelmsen Ships Service in Dammam

Asif Siddiqui recently started with Wilhelmsen Ships Service as Business Development for Project sales in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. He has over four years of project heavy lift and freight forwarding experience in Saudi Arabia having worked as projects manager on a number of large projects.

Siddiqui’s hiring is part of Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s four year strategic project cargo development plan for Wilhelmsen Ships Service in Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Evgeniy Poltavets recently joined Kaalbye Projects, most recently working at Beluga Shipping in Bremen, Germany.

“Evgeniy served Beluga Shipping as one of the charter-ing managers and will now be joining Kaalbye Projects to add to our continuous growth,” said Alexander Var-varenko of Kaalbye Projects, “We are also growing in the fi eld of bulk transportation and project and conven-tional cargo forwarding.”

The Flinter Group is opening a new offi ce to promote their Scandinavian activity. The new offi ce will act under the name Flinter Shipping AB and will foremost expand the marketing activities of Flinter in Sweden in the city of Helsingborg. The managing director will be Mr. Lars Erik Rydberg.

The contact details of the new Flinter Swedish offi ce is:

Flinter Shipping ABOceangatan 3 • S-252 25 Helsingborg SwedenTel.: +46 (4) 212 7000 • Mobile: 46 (7) 0296 7650E-Mail: chartering@fl inter.se • Website: http://www.fl inter.se

New Members Since the Last Newsletter

China Shezhen Guangzhou SunshineDenmark Aarhus Jumbo Transport SolutionFinland Helsinki Nordic WaveGermany Bremen Spedition HerbstIraq Basra Starlight MaritimeIsrael Haifa Dynamic Shipping ServicesKazakhstan Almaty Lomer Point BridgeKorea Seoul KorTransNorway Oslo Nordic WavePortugal Lisbon Bergé Project Cargo Russia Saint Petersburg Spectrum North WestSudan Port Sudan Darka For Trading & Services Sweden Gothenburg Nordic WaveUkraine Odessa Kaalbye ProjectsUnited States Houston Logistics International

Country City Company

New Look andNew Faces at TFC

Thomas Meyer recently left TFC Vietnam for other opportunities in a different fi eld 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 of-fi ce. Thomas is a 23 year old Austrian. He will also be largely put onto project supervision jobs s tar t ing with jobs for a major cement manufacturer.

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

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…

Peter Schüpbach

Thomas Ofner


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January – February, 2009

Costa Rican GPLN member, Dacotrans de Centroamérica S.A., recently transported some interesting cargo bound for the state owned power and telecom com-pany in Costa Rica, Instituto Costarricense de Electri-cidad (ICE).

The job included receipt of cargo under hook, lashing / securing, permits on both sides of the border, customs clearance including payment of duties and delivery at the bonded warehouse. The fi nal place of delivery was the ICE’s bonded warehouse in Tibás, San José some 650 kilometres from Manazanillo.

“It was a succesfull DDP delivery,” said Erich Bake, general manager of Dacotrans de Centroamérica, “We received two ABB Trafos at Manzanillo, Panamá, one weighing in at 60 metric tons and the other at 50 plus accessories and oil for both.”

Taking part with Bake in this move was his projects team members Luis González and María José Zamora.

Bake said that the most diffi cult part of the job was trucking the trafos over 650 km of very narrow roads in mostly hot and humid jungle land between Panamá and Costa Rica.

“The lowboys used for this job were designed and built in a joint-venture between Dacotrans and our heavy lift trucking partner,” said Bake, “We had a similar job done, tailor made, for the La Gloria wind-mills. Customers can expect a considerable savings when we make specialized equipment available in the area, avoiding costly transportation of equipment with the cargo.”

Dacotrans de Centroamérica delivers ABB Trafos

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