Kita Transport Services, based in Istanbul, Turkey, has been involved in air, sea, land transport, integrated logistics as well as project transport. In June, Kita Transport Services moved 3 x 255 ton MAN gas engines from St. Nazaire, France, to Turkey for the assembly of the world’s first “Powership” in order to produce 144 MW of electricity in Iraq. The engines were moved aboard a heavy geared vessel with 2 x 275 tons.

The ship was built at Tuzla Shipyard near Istanbul to produce electricity where needed. It is currently commissioned to Basra, Iraq. The next powership is also being built to produce power for Pakistan. Kita Transport Services is also involved in the transport of 6 x 325 ton engines for this vessel.

About Kita Transport Services

Since 1995 Kita Transport Services has been one of the leading Turkish logistics companies which is involved in air, sea, land freight as well as warehousing, domestic distribution and project logistics. The head office is located in Istanbul with branches in Izmir and Bursa. Kita has a staff of over 250 providing international and domestic logistics services. All Kita trucks are equipped with GPS systems enabling real time tracking of truck positions. Kita Transport Services mainly operates in Turkey, the Balkans, the CIS countries and the Middle East, including Iraq.

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Kita Transport Services, based in Istanbul, Turkey, has been involved in air, sea, land transport, integrated logistics as well as project transport. In June, Kita Transport Services moved 3 x 255 ton MAN gas engines from St. Nazaire, France, to Turkey for the assembly of the world’s first “Powership” in order to produce 144 MW of electricity in Iraq. The engines were moved aboard a heavy geared vessel with 2 x 275 tons.

The ship was built at Tuzla Shipyard near Istanbul to produce electricity where needed. It is currently commissioned to Basra, Iraq. The next powership is also being built to produce power for Pakistan. Kita Transport Services is also involved in the transport of 6 x 325 ton engines for this vessel.

About Kita Transport Services

Since 1995 Kita Transport Services has been one of the leading Turkish logistics companies which is involved in air, sea, land freight as well as warehousing, domestic distribution and project logistics. The head office is located in Istanbul with branches in Izmir and Bursa. Kita has a staff of over 250 providing international and domestic logistics services. All Kita trucks are equipped with GPS systems enabling real time tracking of truck positions. Kita Transport Services mainly operates in Turkey, the Balkans, the CIS countries and the Middle East, including Iraq.

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The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

Local Support – Global Reach!

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We are happy to introduce our latest GPLN Member offices:

Westfracht Kazakhstan

10 Buzurbaeva Street

Almaty 050002

Kazakhstan

Tel: +7 (727) 329 3453

Fax: +7 (727) 382 2525

Website: http://www.gpln.net/members/Asia-Australia-Oceania/Kazakhstan/Westfracht.html

Contact:

Mr. Vadim Safonov, Chief of Regional Office

E-Mail: Vadim.Safanov

Westfracht China

BEA Finance Tower, 20th Floor

66 Huayuanshiquiao Road

Pudong, Shanghai 200120

China

Tel: +86 (21) 6888 2353

Fax: +86 (21) 6888 2398

Website: http://www.gpln.net/members/Asia-Australia-Oceania/China/Westfracht.html

Contact:

Mr. Roy Nobbs, GPLN Contact

E-Mail: Roy.Nobbs

Westfracht is already well known to GPLN members in Germany, Russia and Mongolia. They have now to add their new operations in Kazakhstan and China. This puts our GPLN membership office total over the the two hundred office mark with offices number 200 and 201! This is a very positive milestone for GPLN as it speaks highly of the type members we are attracting. We look to keep finding good companies to work with our members in the future.

We welcome Westfracht Kazakhstan and Westfracht China to the GPLN team!

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

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Project Cargo & Yacht Transport, a GPLN member in Turkey, recently completed the successful shipment of a 33 meter / 90 ton yacht belonging to a sheikh from the United Arab Emirates. This yacht was being built in a shipyard in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina, but the shipyard unfortunately went bankrupt. This ended up in the unfortunate situation that the sheikh had to buy his own yacht back from the Bosnian government the he wanted to bring it to the United Arab Emirates to finish the work.

“It had no engine installed yet and we had to carry the main body,” said Erim Tabib, General Director of Project Cargo & Yacht Transport, “As Tuzla is not a costumed port, we had to load the yacht from Derince but bringing the yacht from Tuzla to Derince was a problem because it had no engine to sail itself. Therefore we had to arrange tugs to pull it to Derince with a four hour operation. We had to make the yacht ready at Derince before vessel’s arrival, otherwise the owners would claim detention.”

“Our yacht was berthed at a free berth, waiting for the vessel’s arrival. After the vessel arrived we had to bring the yacht alongside the vessel, so we needed tug boat operation again. The tug boats came again, brought the yacht alongside. The vessel could lift the 90 tons yacht with its own gear since actually had a lifting capacity up to 160 tons.”

“We have the knowledge and joy to take care of every hassle and detail.”

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

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Roland Hofacker of the International Transport Journal recently went on vacation in Austria and he sent us some photos back. We were very happy to see that he was wearing our very own GPLN baseball cap while hiking in the Austrian Alps. Incidentally Roland had the best Apfelstrudel he had in his life there in Austria. It makes us jealous!

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GPLN Vietnam member, The Freight Company Ltd. (TFC), recently was awarded the transport of pontoons and components for the enlargement of the Burrup Materials Facility in North West Australia. Under the contract TFC sourced a suitably heavy lift geared vessel to load the cargo at Vung Tau Port in Vietnam and transport the cargo to Dampier Port in Australia. A special spreader bar had to be ordered to lift the pontoons that weighed up to 168 metric tons (MT). Loading of the vessel commenced in the morning of 19th July as TFC had to wait for the high tide to launch and tow the pontoons from the fabricating yard to alongside ship. In the morning around 0930 hrs the Access Way and the 1st pontoon were finally towed alongside the vessel. As the pontoon exceeded the lifting capacity of a single crane they had to be lifted with two cranes working in tandem.

The cranes had to be set up so that the access way could go be placed at extreme edge of the deck in order to create enough space for the pontoons. However due to the length of 55 meters loading the access way proved not to be an easy job! The crane boom had to slew to its maximum and raise the boom straight up to slide one end of the access way and then the other end through the space between the two cranes. After aligning the access way to its right position the first pontoon was about to be loaded. This was really the toughest move as the distance from the hatch-cover edge to the access way had been significantly reduced which made it very hard to slew the other end of the pontoon into the remaining space as can be seen on the pictures which gives a good idea with how little room we had to play on this move. It turned out to be precision work which was necessary as any wrong move by a few centimeters could have caused damage to the specially designed and highly valued cargo.

All in all preparation, coordination, experience, timing, professionalism and team-work played important roles in performing such a precision task which led to the completion of a successful loading operation! After a couple of day’s hard work the loading was finally completed and the vessel left Vung Tau Port direction to Australia.

The cargo’s details:

Quantity / Descriptions / Dimension / Est. Weight per unit

1 Pontoon 1 47.50m x 7.80m x 2.25m 165 mt

1 Pontoon 2 47.50m x 7.80m x 2.25m 168 mt

1 Pontoon 3 35.00m x 4.80m x 2.25m 110 mt

1 Access Way 55.00m x 4.80m x 2.00m 122 mt

2 struts 45.50m x 1.60m (diameter) 25 mt

1 strut 45.50m x 1.60m (diameter) 40 mt

1 strut 45.50m x 1.60m (diameter) 50 mt

The Freight Company Ltd.

The Freight Co is a Bangkok based freight forwarding company based providing air, sea and land transport services as well as warehousing and distribution services. The Freight Co is also a market leader in turnkey project logistics serving the power, oil/gas, mining and construction industry. Further offices are in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh City. You can see more about TFC at:

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The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

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Mr. Domenico Longano, Mr. Sauro Paniccia and Mr. Alessandro Bestetti now joined Db Trans Srl effective from 1st September, 2010. Without involving S.I.S.TE.M.A. in any kind of rebranding or joint venture.:

DB Trans
Via Aprica 16
20158 Milan
Italy
Tel.: +39 (02) 668 2636
Fax: +39 (02) 688 6609

Contacts:

Mr. Domenico Longano, CEO

Mobile.: +39 (33) 5142 6921

Mr. Sauro Paniccia, General Manager

Mobile.: +339 (33) 5650 6020

Mr. Alessandro Bestetti, General Manager

Mobile.: +39 (33) 5658 8508

We will keep you informed as to when their website page is updated!

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The overall project volume was over 42,000 cbm and all of the cargo has been delivered on time with no damages. The most difficult part of the project was to tackle the extreme cold weather conditions in Europe, which is the worst in the last 50 years, especially during the February and March. The 50 m long blades were to be moved a distance of over 500 km overland. Under these climatic circumstances these moves were a serious challenge. The goods were loaded on four ships at a -15 degree Celsius temperature and also over 20 trucks were loaded for the cargo to be moved by land route to the jobsite in Turkey. Kita Transport Services had moved the first wind farm to Turkey in 1999 on a door-to-door basis and since then Kita has moved a significant amount of wind turbine equipment to various wind farms in Turkey.

About Kita Transport Services

Since 1995 Kita Transport Services has been one of the leading Turkish logistics companies which is involved in air, sea, land freight as well as warehousing, domestic distribution and project logistics. The head office is located in Istanbul with branches in Izmir and Bursa. Kita has a staff of over 250 providing international and domestic logistics services. All Kita Transport Services trucks are equipped with GPS systems enabling real time tracking of truck positions. Kita mainly operates in Turkey, the Balkans, the CIS countries and the Middle East, including Iraq.

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

GPLN Website:

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GPLN is happy to announce:

L.C. van Tiel Logistics b.v.

Van Veenendaalweg 17

Rotterdam 3088 HG

Zuid-Holland

Netherlands

Tel.: +31 (10) 428 7100

Fax: +31 (10) 428 7109

Contacts:

Mr. Leonard van Tiel, Managing Director / Projects

Mobile: +31 (6) 5136 4435

Mr. Marcel Algera, Operations Manager / Special Transport

Mobile: +31 (6) 5099 9052

Ms. Mariska Looman, Import & Export

Mobile: +31 (6) 5588 6109

L.C. van Tiel Logistics’ specialist fields: Transport of over dimensional cargoes (OW, OH, OL) and heavy lifts by means of their own fleet of special trucks and / or by air, barges, pontoons, rail, coasters (chartering), liner services etc. whatever is the most convenient and efficient mode of transport. They also have several activities revolving around port handling for project cargoes such as packaging, stripping and stuffing 20ft / 40ft FR / OT / DV / HC containers, lashing & securing shipments of project cargoes and containers worldwide. Some samples of the type of cargoes they have recently handled include mobile & crawler cranes, jack-up barges, injection molding systems, Ro-Ro cargoes, heavy lifts (engines, trafo’s), etc. This company was recommended to apply for membership by a GPLN member in the Middle East. Two of L.C. van Tiel Logistics’ references were GPLN members and a third was a sister company to a GPLN member. Their fourth reference was a well known service provider to project transport companies.

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

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We are happy to introduce our latest GPLN Member office:

Shanghai Compass Global Freight Company Ltd.

Hong Kou New Century Hotel, Suite 27H

257 Siping Road

Shanghai 200081

China

Tel: +86 (21) 5109 8673

Fax: +86 (21) 6522 9647

Contacts:

Mr. David Chang, Director / General Manager

Direct: +86 (21) 6521 8082

Mobile: +86 (136) 0164 3460

Ms. Wang Ying, Vice General Manager (Operations)

Direct: +86 (21) 6521 0590

Mobile: +86 (139) 1827 1868

Mr. John Zhang, Vice General Manager (Marketing)

Direct: +86 (21) 6521 0590

Mobile: 13916301893

Compass Global was founded in 2001 and specialized in heavylift and oversized cargo shipping. Their main target markets are windmill cargo, yachts and sea going vessels, construction machines, metal and chemical equipment and power plant equipment. Their service covers shipping and chartering, domestics haulage, barge operation, coastal shipping and port handling. They had good recommendations from a GPLN member, two project charterers and one yacht shipping specialist.

We welcome Shanghai Compass Global Freight to the GPLN team!

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

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5K Logistics Inc, a GPLN member in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has hosted an US Department of Commerce foreign trade delegation from the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Georgia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus. In addition to the CIS representatives there was also representation from Australia. 5K Logistics is an international freight forwarder headquartered in Pennsylvania with branches and warehouses in the region. 5K Logistics is well known in project cargo as well. This is the third straight year 5K Logistics has been asked by the US Department of Commerce to host such an international trade delegation at their Bensalem (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania USA warehouse and distribution facility. 5K Logistics operates the only general purpose US Customs Foreign Trade Zone in the greater Philadelphia port region.

The US Department of Commerce SABIT program provides foreign trade opportunities for American and foreign companies. This program focused on “transportation and logistics” issues. Senior executives of freight forwarding companies from the Caucus region were selected to travel to the United States to learn about transportation and logistics trends, practices and regulations. In addition, the delegation will develop relationships with American industry companies.

The trade delegation visited USA regulatory and Customs agencies in the Washington, DC, area, trade associations and American freight forwarders in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Memphis and Charlotte North Carolina. These meetings allowed the trade representatives to learn firsthand the regulatory process from government officials, the industry trends from trade associations and specific industry information from freight forwarders.

5K Logistics Inc. provides domestic and international freight transportation logistics through trucking, ocean, air, rail, rigging and US Customs brokerage services. 5K Logistics specializes in project freight requiring difficult and complex shipments anywhere in the world. 5K Logistics operates general warehouses serving the NYC, Philadelphia and Baltimore regions, as well as a Foreign Trade Zone in the Philadelphia port region. To learn more about 5K Logistics please contact Paul McGrath, 5K Logistics’s President, or Matt Wright directly.

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

GPLN Website:

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