| Nottingham based
freight forwarders Arrowfreight Limited, headed by David Huxley and
Chairman of the Chamber of Overseas Trade Section, Howard Lea, have
had a number of challenging shipments over the last few months. |
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From
Piraeus To California
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A CNC controlled
vertical boring machine weighing 250 tonnes has been shipped from
Greece to Long Beach, California. The job necessitated two site
visits to Greece to decide the best way to dismantle and load the
shipment.
Several wide
loads and two extra heavy ones were packed and secured to containers
and flat racks on site 120km north of Athens, then delivered over
the mountains to Piraeus for despatch by container ship to California.
All aspects
of loading/packing, road transport and seafreight were co-ordinated
by Arrowfreigth.The
Machine is now being commisioned in California ready for aerospace
engineering work.
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From
Smethwick to Durban
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Another shipment
giving a challenge was a 92 tonne piece of machinery from Smethick
from to Durban.
Arrowfreight
teams dealt with removal from the factory floor using a Megalift
system of hydraulic lifting beams,
delivery by special catergory heavy haulage to Southhampton, off
load from transport onto a ships equipment MAFI trailer, securing
and delivery to Durban by roll-on/roll-off service.
Five 40ft containers
of ancillary equipment were also loaded and shipped to complete
the job.
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Another
Special Cargo!
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From
Hull To The Far East
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During June
and July several very wide loads will cause some inconvenience as
they move up the M1 and M62 to Hull.
At almost 5.5
metres wide there will not be much overtaking. The six units which
are part of a cargo handing installation are enroute to the Far
East.
They will be
on the first sailing of a new service for conventional as opposed
to container cargo ex Hull to Singapore, Malaysian and Indonesian
ports.
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