Gebrüder Weiss flies cable car to Mexico

Special transport ‘managed by Gebrüder Weiss’: 450 tonnes of components of a cable car carried in express-mode across the Atlantic
 
These days Gebrüder Weiss has proven once again its competence in handling special transports around the globe. For the Bartholet Maschinenbau AG company, the transport and logistics company has recently transported an entire cable car from Switzerland and the Netherlands via Frankfurt-Hahn (Germany) to Puebla, Mexico. The total weight was 450 tonnes. The government in Puebla will operate the aerial tramway for the transport of tourists.
 
The short delivery time and the tight time schedule led the customer to decide in favour of air freight. “It does not happen very often that a complete cable car is loaded into wide-bodied freight aircrafts,” says Marc Kirchberger, Airfreight Export Manager at Gebrüder Weiss. Therefore, the logistical planning carried out in advance had been all the more important, he explains: “In particular the safe packaging of the goods and the proper loading of the cargo airplanes were logistical challenges.” At the airport in Puebla, a special crane was required for loading the enormous elements onto trucks.
 
The special transport, handled by four charter flights with a Boeing 747-F, included not only two gondolas with dimensions of 4.5 m x 2.5 m x 3.0 m, but also steel parts for construction of the stations on the mountain and in the valley and for three cable car pylons weighing 35 tonnes each. In addition, Gebrüder Weiss transported track and haul ropes with a total weight of 100 tonnes. Some items were as long as 13.8 metres. 25 trucks and three sprinters were needed to transfer the cable car elements to the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Quelle: LogEastics

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