HHLA Logistics transports parts of an enormous mill for a goldmine in Mali. The last two (for the time being) parts of a total of ten packages had to be brought via road with a heavy transporter from the facility in Prerov (Czech Republic) to Melnik. Not all that easy with a length of 10.55 metres, height of 5.34 metres and width of 5.65 metres, the company said in its press release.
The packages, each weighing 68.10 tonnes, were loaded onto a barge at the Port of Melnik on the Czech Elbe. This ecological and especially advantageous mode of transport then brought them over 700 kilometres to Hamburg. After a short stopover at the HHLA Terminal O’Swaldkai, the journey will now continue 27.11.2014 on the barge from Hamburg to Radicatel in France via Le Havre. The total project will then be consolidated there.
By June, HHLA Logistics had already shipped eight of the packages from Duisburg to Le Havre. HHLA’s subsidiary has specialised in this kind of complicated project logistics and operates its own facility for this purpose at O’Swaldkai. The use of shipping and rail as modes of transport means only especially low levels of CO2 are emitted even when transporting heavy goods.