The skills of Volga-Dnepr
Group’s Engineering and Logistics Centre (ELC) were called into action to develop
special loading equipment to transport a 30-ton ‘drum’ for desalination of
drinking water from Dusseldorf in Germany to Kuwait City .
“This 10-metre steam drum for
the oil and gas industry was both heavy and outsize and it was not equipped
with tie-down points for its flight onboard one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’
Iluyshin-76TD-90VD aircraft. To distribute the weight, we developed two small,
light cradles and installed the cargo onto them. We also fitted the drum with
special devices to enable us to meet the mooring safety requirements and fix
the drum inside the cargo hold of the aircraft. The loading was completed using
two cranes and a trailer. This solution was previously considered by the
engineers of the customer. As a result of this preparation work, the steam drum
was delivered on-time to the customer in Kuwait city,” said Evgeny Venikov,
Load Planning Manager, Engineering and Logistics Centre, Volga-Dnepr Group.
The flight was operated on
behalf of the international forwarding and logistics company, Panalpina.
Volga-Dnepr Airlines, part of
Volga-Dnepr Group, has comprehensive experience of providing unique logistics
services for complex cargo loads, including the development of special loading
equipment for heavy and outsize cargo. The Engineering and Logistics Centre
supplies customers with complex and cost-effective services and works on a
24/7/365 basis. Projects supported by the ELC team include an 88 flight
programme to deliver 6,000 tonnes of equipment to a gas processing plant in
Papua New Guinea and the carriage of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner wing section
onboard Volga-Dnepr Group’s An-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighters. ELC also develops
solutions for complex deliveries using the Group’s fleet of IL-76TD-90VD,
Boeing 737 and B747 freighter aircraft.
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