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Showcase: Not quite an ordinary crate |
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| With a deadline to meet and no commercial options available to reach the final destination on time, creative thinking was necessary. On first sight a fairly regular box had to be transported from Cairo, Egypt, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Moving this oil well equipment, packed in a crate measuring 164x164x205 cm and weighing nearly 11 tons was a perfect job for the Antonov 12.
Panalpina arranged the commercial uplift between Cairo and Paris, from where the crate was trucked to Vatry airport, on the outskirts of Paris, where flexibility and expertise for specialized loading is available.
Technical excellence
When the truck arrived at Vatry airport with the heavy crate, the aircraft had just landed. A low bed trailer was ready and an external crane carefully took the heavy piece of the truck and onto this specially prepared trailer.
An heavy duty steel plate was placed on six steel pipes on the trailer in order to roll the crate forwards. The rear ramp of the Antonov 12 aircraft was opened and the low bed trailer approached the aircraft.
The aircraft's winches where attached to the cargo's hook up points and slowly pulled over the steel pipes into the aircraft.
One of our operations experts coordinated the preparation of this, for the AN-12, very heavy piece of cargo and supervised the three hours loading process.
A long trip to Galeao Airport
Including the fuel stops in Las Palmas, Sal and Recife, the aircraft arrived 27 hours later at Rio's Galeao airport, where off-loading was done in the reverse way before this urgent consignment departed by truck to its final destination. |
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