June 2006

Project in Nigeria

In May 2006, our Japanese and Koreans agencies organized ocean freight shipment from Masan [Korea] to Onne [Nigeria].

Chartering a conventional vessel, SDV International Logistics in Japan handled more than 1,000 tons of steel structures, columns, drums and tubes. The eighty nine packages weighted some 10 tons, ranging from 1.5 tons to a massive depropanizer tower.

Most of the equipment was bare and lifted by the ship's heavy crane and loaded into the cargo compartments of the vessel using suitable ship's grummets, wire rope slings, spreaders and shackles with careful handling to prevent any damage to the shipment. Finally, the cargo was properly stowed in the best possible manner using efficient wooden dunnages* where needed.

All operation of "loading, storage and securing" was performed within ninety six hours. This important cargo should reach its destination port, Onne [Nigeria] before mid-June. There, SDV International Logistics in Japan and Nigeria, will arrange transshipment to barges for final delivery to Bonny Island.

* Dunnage is the name for the materials used in holds and containers to protect goods and their packaging from moisture, contamination and mechanical damage.

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