Air Freight News

XLP members, Glaube Logistics and Across Logistics move a heavy weight door-to-door air shipment from Spain to Saudi Arabia

Jan 17, 2023

The 8 pieces of cargo consisting of capacitor banks and their spare parts were transported. The total weight was 20 tons, and the total volume was 114,277 m3. Dimensions of the cargo were as follows:

- Dims cm: 268 x 220 x 268 (5)

- Dims cm: 107 x 51 x 132 (1)

- Dims cm: 168 x 220 x 268 (1)

- Dims cm: 418 x 220 x 268 (1)

Port of Loading: Madrid Airport in Spain

Port of Discharge: Dammam Airport in Saudi Arabia

The main challenge of the operation was to find a suitable schedule to carry these big units by air freight, battling the weather conditions at loading and off-loading locations to meet their client's deadline with their end user.

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