Militzer & Münch masters major project to Uzbekistan

Components for the new TIFA football stadium in Tashkent traveled with Militzer & Münch from Europe to Central Asia
 
A distance of 5000 kilometers, 300 full truck loads, and ten weeks’ time – the transport of the components for the roof of the new TIFA football stadium in the Uzbek capital Tashkent was a logistical masterpiece. Militzer & Münch, the internationally active forwarder and logistics services provider headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, transported the components of the stadium roof from Europe to Central Asia.
 
The steel frames and the sensitive, easily damaged roof membranes – each piece an individual, made-to-measure component – were produced in Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, to be transported to Uzbekistan by Militzer & Münch. “Projects of this size are everyday business for us”, says Peter Vogl, who is responsible for the business sector Projects with Militzer & Münch: “Yet routine jobs they never are, as no project is like the other.”
 
All in all 300 truck loads were necessary to deliver the steel frames and the roof membranes from Europe to their destination in Central Asia. Along the 5,000 kilometer distance, eight national borders had to be crossed, with each new country demanding new transport permits for the out-of-gauge steel beams. A special challenge for truckers and cargo alike was the transit through Kazakhstan with hundreds of kilometers of dirt roads. The trucks would only be on the road in broad day light so as not to endanger the custom-built pieces. An exact time schedule had to be adhered to not only for the transport, but also for the delivery of the parts to the construction site, as the assembly of the roof components had to happen in a specified order. The stafff of the Militzer & Münch branch in Uzbekistab surveilled all related processes.
 
The M&M Militzer & Münch Group employs about 2,800 persons at 100 locations in over 30 countries. Militzer & Münch sees itself as a specialist for Eurasia and North Africa. The Group’s international services comprise road haulage and rail freight, air and sea transports as well as project logistics along the East-West axis.

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