Panalpina Moves Heavy Machinery to China

Panalpina has chartered an Antonov AN 225 freighter aircraft in order to ensure the safe and smooth transportation of high-tech machinery from Germany to China. The loading took place on April 9 at the airport in Hamburg. On April 10, the cargo was safely offloaded in Shijiazhuang.

The freight comprised a laser welding machine manufactured by Ideal-Werk C.+E. Jungeblodt GmbH + Co as well as a laser beam welding machine from Hugo Miebach GmbH. The cargo – all in all about 150 tons – could not be loaded into a Boeing freighter plane, and ocean freight was not an alternative either because the high-tech equipment was urgently needed at destination. However, the charter and emergency department from Panalpina managed to charter the Antonov AN 225 operated by Ruslan International.

The charter and emergency department is part of Panalpina Air & Ocean, specializing in the ad-hoc chartering of airplanes of all kinds and sizes, depending on the individual demands, being it a particularly urgent shipment or a heavy and oversize load.

The department comes into operation for aid-shipments in the aftermath of natural disasters, or organizes the supply of urgently needed parts and machinery for construction sites all over the world. The department is located in in Europe, Asia and North America. In order to handle the heavy-lift shipment to China successfully, the charter- and emergency-department cooperated with Panalpina branches in Germany (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt), Luxembourg and China (Wuhan).

Panalpina, www.panalpina.com