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Sep 16, 2014 (newstodate): The privately-owned Danish company Airland Logistics, with HQs at Copenhagen, recently completed yet another spectacular global operation.
The logistics provider was contracted to manage the shipment and delivery of 75 tonnes of urgent oil and gas industry coil-tubing equipment from London Stansted to Adelaide, to support a drilling programme in the Coober Pedy Basin of South Australia.
The time-sensitive shipments did not allow the time required for transportation by ocean, and in addition, the largest item in the consignment a reel weighing 38 tonnes and measuring 3.95 metre high was too large to fit into any other aircraft type.
Eventually the solution was to charter a ramp-loading and self-sustaining Ruslan International AN-124 freighter that completed the operation including the 17,000 km flight in 58 hours, with technical stops in Baku, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur and Darwin.
All operations at origin and destination were overseen by Airland Logistics, which has offices in Europe and Australia, as well as South Africa and Canada.
Ruslan International manages the AN-124 freighter aircraft for its partners, Antonov Airlines operating seven and Volga Dnepr Group 10 aircraft.
The logistics provider was contracted to manage the shipment and delivery of 75 tonnes of urgent oil and gas industry coil-tubing equipment from London Stansted to Adelaide, to support a drilling programme in the Coober Pedy Basin of South Australia.
The time-sensitive shipments did not allow the time required for transportation by ocean, and in addition, the largest item in the consignment a reel weighing 38 tonnes and measuring 3.95 metre high was too large to fit into any other aircraft type.
Eventually the solution was to charter a ramp-loading and self-sustaining Ruslan International AN-124 freighter that completed the operation including the 17,000 km flight in 58 hours, with technical stops in Baku, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur and Darwin.
All operations at origin and destination were overseen by Airland Logistics, which has offices in Europe and Australia, as well as South Africa and Canada.
Ruslan International manages the AN-124 freighter aircraft for its partners, Antonov Airlines operating seven and Volga Dnepr Group 10 aircraft.