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Graham: A recent delivery of drill pipe joints from the UK to Las Palmas in the Canaries was arranged at short notice. A mobile drilling rig was enroute to the coast of Namibia and made a short stop at the port to receive the drill pipe joints that we delivered over two An-124 fl ights. Specialist bracing equipment that is necessary for the restraint of pipes within the cargo compartment was deployed to the aircraft at very short notice in cooperation with the forwarder involved in the project.


Maxim: Moving a 75-ton heat exchanger from Italy to Russia was a straightforward process for URALCHEM Holding when it entrusted the entire door-to-door delivery to Volga-Dnepr Airlines. URALCHEM is one of the biggest companies in the mineral fertilizers market in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe and this particular shipment was destined to be used as part of the synthesis process of chemical substances at its affi liated company, Azote. As part of our total ‘cargo supermarket’ solution, we conducted an analysis of the cargo and engineered a special transportation construction to ensure its safe delivery. Volga-Dnepr commenced the transport process by organising the movement of the heat exchanger by road from Bergamo to Milan’s Malpensa Airport and our team also took responsibility for leasing cranes for the loading and unloading of the An-124-100 freighter aircraft, managed the customs clearance process and organised road transport for the cargo to a temporary storage location in Palniki following its arrival in Russia, and then onto the customer’s Berezniki manufacturing plant. This delivery from Bergamo to Berezniki is a good example of the type of door-to-door solutions Volga-Dnepr now provides to customers


on a regular basis to help them save time, to simplify complex logistics tasks, and to achieve greater cost effi ciency.


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Fayçal: The losses can easily and rapidly stagger up to enormous amounts. The overall picture becomes clear once production has been resumed. Let’s take an example of a fl ight we operated recently for a customer that provides mobile power packs for energy supplies in North Africa. We got a phone call with the request to provide an urgent air logistics solution to move a replacement power pack as soon as possible.


This means that at that point, the equipment on site has not been working for a couple of days. It is easy to imagine the following cost factors are starting to come together:


1. Loss of agreed energy product delivery 2. Initial troubleshooting cost


3. Cost of idle inventory on ground which needs to be returned for repair + repair cost


4. Cost of the replacement equipment + installation


5. Logistics cost, which also includes additional import duties on the replacement equipment, permit costs for cranes and trucks etc


Graham: Financial penalties in the case of delayed completion or delivery. Downtime of workforce is another factor as they still need to be paid even if production is halted. In some instances the process of shutting down and restarting a production is not as simple as ‘switching a switch on or off’. It can take days to fully ramp up production to the volume prior to shutdown.


Alexander: Volga-Dnepr was recently involved in the urgent transportation of pipes from southeast Asia to Africa. The reason for chartering the An-124-100 freighter was due to the fact that the customer was losing around US$700,000 per day, so the company operating the oil and gas project decided to use our services to minimise their losses. Volga- Dnepr managed to deliver this urgent cargo within a week of receiving the initial request from the customer, including the time that was necessary to solve all the operational and load planning issues.


Tak: It depends on the cargo. A classic example is when we have transported many turbines to China for a local power plant. The potential interruption of power supplies affects all of the lives of people living in a city.


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