REGIONAL REPORTAUSTRIA & SWITZERLAND


We are encountering contracts where they literally put everything on your shoulders, all the liabilities. – Dominik Keller, Fracht Basel


responsible for any damages – it goes beyond local laws and beyond the rules for the Forwarders’ Association in Switzerland. “Some forwarders just sign everything


and do not really question the customer. If it goes through a company’s legal department, it would take ages to make a decision – if it is the sales people, they just sign it.” Sometimes the insurance demands are so


great that Fracht cannot get coverage from European insurance providers at all and has to go to the USA for special cover, he said. “It is really tough. You have to read the contract carefully and you have to decide if you really want to bear the risk/cost or not. We do not accept everything. At the end of the day, if there are only risks and we cannot make any money, we would prefer not to work for the client.” Fracht has turned down work because of


this issue, said Keller. “But obviously it is very difficult, because you do not want to miss out on business – it is not growing on trees.” Yes, it would be best if the industry


showed a united front and refused to take on work with such conditions, he said. “But unfortunately there is always someone who agrees to the terms. Of course we take risks,


Switzerland based Welti-Furrer Pneukran & Spezialtransporte erected three E-92 wind turbines in December 2016 at the Gries Pass, which has an altitude of roughly


2,500 m. Working for Enercon, the crane service provider relied on its Terex TC 2800-1 lattice boom truck crane.


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