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Kita Transport Services: Wind power cargo headed for Iskanderun

Turkish based GPLN member, Kita Transport Services, has been involved in

air, sea, land transport, integrated logistics as well as project transport.

During the first half of 2010, Kita Transport Services moved a 35 MW wind

power plant consisting of 14 units of GE 2.5 MW wind turbines. The goods

were moved from Germany and other parts of Europe into Iskenderun, Turkey,

by land and sea.

 

The overall project volume was over 42,000 cbm and all of the cargo has been

delivered on time with no damages. The most difficult part of the project

was to tackle the extreme cold weather conditions in Europe, which is the

worst in the last 50 years, especially during the February and March. The

50 m long blades were to be moved a distance of over 500 km overland. Under

these climatic circumstances these moves were a serious challenge. The

goods were loaded on four ships at a -15 degree Celsius temperature and also

over 20 trucks were loaded for the cargo to be moved by land route to the

jobsite in Turkey. Kita Transport Services had moved the first wind farm to

Turkey in 1999 on a door-to-door basis and since then Kita has moved a

significant amount of wind turbine equipment to various wind farms in

Turkey.

 

About Kita Logistics

 

Since 1995 Kita Transport Services has been one of the leading Turkish

logistics companies which is involved in air, sea, land freight as well as

warehousing, domestic distribution and project logistics. The head office

is located in Istanbul with branches in Izmir and Bursa. Kita has a staff

of over 250 providing international and domestic logistics services. All

Kita Transport Services trucks are equipped with GPS systems enabling real

time tracking of truck positions. Kita mainly operates in Turkey, the

Balkans, the CIS countries and the Middle East, including Iraq.

 

You can find out more about Kita Transport Services here:

 

www.gpln.net/members/MiddleEast-IndianSubcontinent/Turkey...

rtServices.html

 

Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN)

 

The Global Project Logistics Network is the premier non-exclusive

professional projects logistics network of independent companies

specializing in international projects movements by air, sea and land as

well as specialized lifts and the special handling of oversized,

out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.

 

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www.gpln.net

 

Project Cargo Logistics Blog:

 

 

ProjectCargoLogistics.gpln.net

 

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Uploaded on August 23, 2010
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