More than 5,550 t of cargo. The heaviest of these weighed 103 t, and the largest measured 24 m long, 6.3 m wide and 6.5 m high. These are the figures for the transport of tanks and machinery for the preparation of gas production facilities, which we carried out at Rohlig SUUS Logistics as part of the Project Cargo service.
The transport involved conveying components of the gas production plant, including oversized cargo, from China, the United Arab Emirates, India and Turkey to Głogów.
First and foremost, preparations
In Project Cargo operations, it is not only the transport itself that is important, but also the preparation process is extremely important. This includes planning the route for the so-called last mile, which is most often done by road transport. The team checked the passability and strength of roads and bridges, as well as, for example, whether a car carrying a long part would be able to turn freely at a given bend. Interestingly, in this project, the final section (5 km) took 4.5 hours to complete, as this was the only passable road.
An important part of the project was also the development of technical documentation and, as the goods were being transported from outside the European Union, the organisation of customs handling.
By ship to port
Another important step was the transport of goods from distant countries to European ports, i.e. Gdynia, Gdansk, Szczecin, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven. As you can see, only Polish ports, from which Głogów is the closest, were not used in the project. The reason? The key to the choice was the possibility of a further route by land or inland sea transport, transport time, price and the type of transport mode.
Due to the unusual dimensions of many of the components, the only possible means of transport for the longest distance was by ship. In this case, a break bulk system (a system of transporting cargo as separate parts rather than in containers), a roll-on/roll-off container ship (designed to carry rolling cargo and vehicles), and flat rack containers (which do not have two long walls and a top) and Open Top (covered with a tarpaulin instead of a fixed roof) were used.
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