Old heavylift dreams flying high again 
The first step is always the hardest. The British founders of Hybrid Air Vehicles must have taken frequent recourse to this old saying in the ten years of their company history. When an order from compatriots Straightline Aviation came in in March it seemed like a breakthrough... more
Prepared for changes
The market for heavylift shipping companies is in stormy seas at present. Chipolbrok is currently renewing part of its fleet. Christian Doepgen spoke to Zhou Jinglai and Radoslaw Chmielinski, the two chief executive officers of the Sino-Polish joint venture, about technical... more
Tanks for Saudi Arabia
Close cooperation between a group of Dutch enterprises in February saw BigLift Shipping’s heavylift vessel the «Happy Delta» loaded with 13 steel storage tanks destined for Saudi Arabia. The ship’s journey from Rotterdam, across the windswept Bay of Biscay and through the Suez... more
An airbridge to Uganda
Globalisation on a grand scale. To build a road bridge over the Nile, which is Africa’s and the world’s longest river, the companies need material from Asia – which reaches the site via the Middle East. more
«Glocal cooperation»
The expectation that the heavylift market will remain mediocre through to 2017 was confirmed recently by Drewry. There will nevertheless be some opportunities, as Kyriacos Panayides, managing director of AAL, told Christian Doepgen. more
Powerpacks to replace lorries
Up until now the haulage of exceptionally large consignments weighing more than 2,000 t usually required a number of trucks working in combination; some at the front, pulling and steering, others at the back, pushing and braking. This limits their manoeuvrability. Mammoet and... more
A folding giant
Oversized cargo calls for special solutions. The key can be unique technology, or even the legal framework at the scene of the action, as is the case for the Highway Giant, for example. It can be transported without special authorisation in some parts of the USA. Or one can opt... more
Polar projects
It is well known that many a Russian’s rather special relationship with winter and snow only really allows him to warm up when the temperature drops below zero. This, combined with the air cargo know-how of the country’s heavylift experts, resulted in two rather interesting news... more
Constructing the corridor
Corridor IX is a key construction plan, with which the Chinese company Shandong Hi Speed Group has been tasked. However, with its local logistics services provider Transagent, which has also been a contractual cooperation partner since 2014, further plans have been implemented... more
«One must be bold!»
When Ilse Fliege founded Bocs Bremen Overseas Chartering in 1990, its line of business was still a male preserve. In a conversation with Antje Hanna Veregge she explains how she was nevertheless able to establish a successful company that has specialised in conventional services... more