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sequence to meet the plan. It also has cost benefits from economy of scale and means cargo can be handled safely with due consideration for anything that requires special handling or preservation before delivery to the end user.” deugro Oceania continues to work with local construction companies, mining, and oil and gas companies on projects in Papua New Guinea. In Australia, the forwarder is involved in the transition to renewables and the new transmission grid, as well as continuing to support its long-term clients in power generation, mining, and oil and gas. “In terms of increasing gas exports from Papua New Guinea to Asia, we expect this area to improve, especially to Japan and Korea,” Booth said. “We will hopefully see projects in Papua New Guinea receive FID approval in 2025/26 on several drilling, FPSO and LNG-related projects due for construction or campaigns from 2026-2032 and beyond.” deugro UK Back in Britain, where there are fewer snakes to contend with and the climate is much more forgiving, deugro is also keeping busy. Country manager UK Ben Cunnington highlighted Antwerp’s INEOS Project One ethane cracker as just one of the projects deugro UK was involved in at the time of writing. In collaboration with deugro China and deugro Chartering, and with support from deugro Antwerp, deugro UK transported ten storage bullets and additional equipment from China to Antwerp. The move involved over 6,890 tonnes of cargo shipped on two heavy-lift vessels. Some pieces weighed nearly 740 tonnes and were almost 50 m long. “We are currently shipping modular buildings from UAE to Antwerp for this project too,” Cunnington said. He noted increasing activity around green initiatives in the UK, with projects such as the Net Zero Teesside gas-fired power and carbon capture project ramping up, and growing interest in small modular reactors for the nuclear industry.
The majority of the cargo was delivered from Lae to Manus Island by an LCT supply vessel
equipped with a 50-tonne crane deugro impresses with tropical transport triumph
The winner of this year’s BIFA Project Forwarding Award was deugro, whose management of a wildly challenging project in Papua New Guinea impressed the judges
cargo flew on over 100 part-charter flights; the remainder was delivered from Lae by a Landing Craft Tank supply vessel equipped with a 50-tonne crane. With 154 return voyages totalling over 120,230 nm, it delivered 48,685 tons of cargo – including transformers, building components, construction machinery, foodstuffs, electrical equipment and over 4.356 million litres of fuel. A 24/7 team of project managers employed on a fly- in/fly-out basis oversaw the work. Key to the success of the project was the creation of logistics nodes at Lae and the jobsite. Booth said: “The ability to consolidate or deconsolidate is the best way to manage cargo in a logical
‘W ildly’ challenging seems an apt description. For a start, said Paul Booth, regional director – Oceania at deugro: “The site was very remote, across 400 nm of ocean. It’s a tropical environment, sometimes very hot, very dry or very wet. There are unexploded bombs left over from the Second World War, a lack of local food, water, power and reliable Internet – and there are crocodiles and snakes, too.” Multiple shipments The project itself was complex, involving the coordination of multiple shipments from different points of origin in Asia and Europe to Australia and Papua New Guinea, from where deugro delivered it to the construction site on Manus Island. Approximately 800 tonnes of
“ The site was very remote, across 400 nm of ocean – Paul Booth, deugro
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