Helicopter flies from Sweden to SA

MOVING A helicopter from Sweden to South Africa required some fancy footwork by local forwarder Hike Freight – with airfreight the preferred option despite the bulky nature of the cargo. “For a machine that costs around ¤3 million, the sooner it’s operational the sooner it earns its keep – which is why the customer decided against a 5-week seafreight journey,” said Hilton Tait, MD of Hike Freight, which handled the full logistics for the shipment. It arrived in Johannesburg this week aboard a Singapore Airlines freighter.