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The truck brings the cargo directly to the quay wall. Here it is either initially stored or goes directly on board the vessel.
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Breakbulk made by Mittelstand: Anything but standard
LogCoop members join forces to offer the right solution for every heavy-lift cargo
How does an aircraft fuel tank reach Singapore from Germany? Members of the logistics cooperative LogCoop regularly deal with such enquiries. In this case, a company from Australia had requested ship- ment to the SE Asian state of several Airbus addi- tional center tanks that had been inspected in Rhine- land Palatinate. The snag was that the fuel tanks were over-width and weighed about 350 kilograms – a classic case of breakbulk. Transport of such large, heavy and bulky general cargo requires out-of-the-
box thinking from the logistics experts, where di- mensions don’t fit into any standardized container. Yet as project cargo, over-dimensional boats, cranes, turbine blades, or even complete production units, reach the other end of the world.
NOT ROUTINE BY ANY MEANS
Being so individual, breakbulk shipments impose special demands on planning, organization and trans- port. First, freight weighing tons and frequently also
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