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high and a lot of projects ongoing, oil and gas industry companies often deem it more cost effective to fly in equipment rather than have exploration or production stop,” explained South Africa-based Langdon. “We are seeing a lot of requests for urgent air freight shipments, requiring both small and large charters, part charters and even some hand-carries.”
Sector variety The extent of the variety in oil and gas sector air freight requirements was highlighted to Air Logistics Management by senior executives at many other leading global forwarding and supply chain management providers active in the sector. Franziska Inman, vice president global
oil and gas business development for Kuwait-headquartered Agility, who is based in the key oil industry centre of Houston, Texas, notes that in addition to standard industry supplies such as drill bits, valves, tools and miscellaneous general consumables, the company also sometimes air freights more unusual items for that industry. “Last year, for example, we were asked to ship regular tennis socks from the US to Indonesia,” she said. More generally, Inman continued,
Agility provides oil and gas sector customers with both ‘next flight out’ and standard air freight consolidation services – in the case of the latter, particularly from the US to the Middle East, West Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. “Obviously our customers try to utilise the consol services because they are
more economical. But emergencies happen and in those instances the goods may have to be put on a faster, next flight out, service,” she stated. “We also handle heavy-lift and project cargo moves for that industry. We do a lot of charter moves using Ilyushin or Antonov freighters but those are generally in ad hoc situations where a rig is down or it is another type of absolute emergency.” Steve Harley, senior vice president,
DHL energy sector, says that his company provides a range of logistics services to the oil and gas industry based on the capabilities of its DHL Global Forwarding, Express and Supply Chain divisions. On the air freight side, he continued, that involves a combination of DHL’s own international air network, third-party space and chartered capacity arranged through wholly-owned subsidiary Star Broker. “The ability to link all those options is the key to our air freight offering to the oil and gas industry,” he declared. Another important oil and gas industry
skill when it comes to logistics, Harley observed, is the ability to organise multimodal movements. “Very often there is a compelling reason to do that both from a cost and accessibility point of view. For example, we have multimodal services operating out of the Far East into the Middle East and on to other points such as East Africa where the Far East - Middle East leg is ocean freight and the onward movement is by air.” Thomas Bek,
global manager, oil and energy
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Inman
“our customers try to utilise the consol services because they are more economical”
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