AQUA’s role in this project comprised of:
- Identifying suitable carriers willing to carry the helicopters on a container ship. The height of the helicopters with the rotor blades intact made RORO a negative option as the ramp heights were lower than the helicopter heights.
- Receiving the 2 units at the terminal in Bahrain from the shipper’s arranged transport service and safely offloading them to ground.
- Design and fabrication of suitable support structures to hold the helicopter tyres in place on a flat rack.
- Safe loading of each unit on flat racks in the terminal as per the pre-approved load plan submitted by Aqua’s appointed surveyor’s office.
- Coordinate with the terminal and shipping line for the movement of the units alongside the vessel during it’s call at Bahrain Port.
- Safely ensure the loading of each unit under deck on a bed of 9 flats.
As per the advice of the shipping line, this is the first time that they were loading helicopters with rotor blades intact on their vessels and it was also the first time that such a shipment was handled from Bahrain Port.
Aqua Global Logistics worked very closely for over 3 months since early November when the enquiry was first floated in the market and after several rounds of changes/loading plans got to a final arrangement with ANL (part of the CMA-CGM Group) who carried this project as breakbulk on their container ship from Bahrain. Shipment was safely transshipped ex Jebel Ali and en route to Singapore for further transshipment and on-carriage to Auckland.
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