HEAVY LIFT\\\


ALS UK was asked to move a crate containing a solar turbine from a packer in Irlam to Felixstowe. The dimensions provided suggested the crate was 4.7m high and could easily be delivered by road to the port. However, when the ALS team


made a site visit it found that the crate was 4.86m high, which


increased the overall transport dimensions to over 5m high. This made a road delivery in the time frame required impossible as obtaining and planning a high load road route could take weeks, if not months. Worse, the cargo was soon


due to depart on a vessel from Felixstowe in order to arrive in


Automotive


and intermodal to the fore at


heavyliſt airline


Automotive and intermodal traffic (sea containers, pallets, boxes, and general loose cargo) were the strong growth areas for Antonov Airlines in 2017, says business development director, Michael Goodisman. Both sectors showed strong


growth in tonne-km terms, at 18% and 23% respectively. He adds: “A significant part of these figures can be attributed to the defence sector which remains strong overall.” Other success stories were


industry and machinery at 11%, aerospace at 14% and energy at 10%. Oil and Gas activity is still recovering at around 6%. Humanitarian flights towards the end of the year contributed a 6% increase. Goodisman adds: “We expect a similarly wide contribution from these sectors moving into 2018, but as always certain sectors could move more than


others due to changes in oil prices or defence decisions.” Antonov has completed a life extension programme


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giving an additional 20 years - on all seven of its AN-124-100 aircraſt and its AN-225. It has also increased the payload of two of its AN-124-100s from 120 to 150 tonnes and will continue to extend this capability to its other AN-124-100s. The carrier has upgraded


flight and navigation equipment to ensure that it can fly under the stricter conditions now required by certain airports. It is also installing upgraded airborne equipment and redistributed crew members’ duties to reduce the number of


personnel


required. Maintenance improvements have meanwhile reduced downtime and, in partnership with its Ukrainian engine supplier, reduced noise and made other improvements.


You like knowing possibilities are endless.


China before the Chinese New Year at the end of January. Fortunately, the packing


plant in Irlam was close to Irlam Container Terminal on the Manchester


Ship Canal. ALS’s


solution was to move the crate on a trailer from the plant to the terminal and charter a small vessel to meet the ship later on its


Issue 2 2018 - Freight Business Journal Ship Canal to the rescue


voyage in Rotterdam. Despite heavy weather


delaying the arrival of the MV Bonita in Irlam until the morning of Sunday 17th December, the crate was loaded on board, enabling her to sail on the aſternoon tide the same day and arriving in Rotterdam in plenty of time to make the seagoing vessel.


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