Global tie-up adds project muscle

A global partnership tie-up
has allowed GAC Laser
International Logistics to
play a more significant role in SA’s
project cargo industry, according to
Durban-based regional managing
executive, Carol Holland.
“GAC owns 50% of Laser
International Logistics in SA,”
she told FTW. “As a result, we
have secured additional project
shipments. This due to their many
years’ experience and specialisation
in project management worldwide.”
The group has a widespread
area of focus for its project cargo
division, operating in such industry
sectors as oil and gas, mining,
engineering, procurement and
construction, pulp and paper, plant
and factory relocation, and military
and aid cargo.
And a look at its recent orderbook
for project shipments shows
an equally wide selection of product
types that the company has moved.
The export of two umbilical
reelers in a 40-foot (12-metre) flat
rack from Cape Town to Scotland
was one such project. This out-ofgauge
consignment measured
3.75 m long, 2.8 m wide and
3.66 m high, weighing in at
19-metric tonnes and occupying a
volume of 76.086-cubic metres.
“We have also recently handled
a number of abnormal shipments
for a platinum smelter expansion
project,” said Holland. “One of
these was a shipment from Hamburg
to Durban – with a final destination
in Rustenburg – consisting of two
star coolers.”
Another export move was the
road transport of two Mafi tractors
to Lobito in Angola.
Destined for the SAB Miller
brewery at Rosslyn were five
fermentation tanks – each measuring
21.859-m long, 5.675-m in diameter,
scaling in at a weight of 25-tonnes
a tank, and giving a total project
weight of 125-t.
These GAC Laser International
Logistics freighted directly from the
manufacturing works in Germany
and delivered to the SAB site in
June to August last year.