Interview Ahlers Projects and Machinery Logistics

Our Projects & Machinery division stems from our longstanding agency-activities tradition for the main break bulk lines where we encountered a lot of oversized and heavy cargo.  However, Projects do not only consist of this kind of equipment.  More and more cargo is designed to fit into containers. Hence, we focus on the A-Z management of projects, in every aspect : transportation planning, customs clearance and documentation, assisting in obtaining lower or zero import duties or taxes, monitoring of cargo or contact with the different suppliers and the final receiver.

Our main market remains the CIS and, in this respect, we have built up quite some experience in the metallurgic, petrochemical and the Oil & Gas industry. The complexity of these projects often is not in the transportation itself but in the preparational work and the correct documentation, communication, and reporting.  Consequently, we invest a lot of resources in setting up control towers & dashboards, measuring and visualizing key performance indicators determined by our customers’ needs and requirements.

Besides of projects, we handle yearly around 800 to 1000 units of mining equipment (excavators, dump trucks, …) of the well-known brands, mostly ex China into the CIS, which gives us broad experience in OOG-rail transport and trucking along the new Silk Road.