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Podcast-Episode 13: Project Logistics – huge and heavy?

The term ‘project logistics’ is most commonly associated with imposing images – giant wind energy turbines or machine or plant components. But project cargo comprises much more than this. In the newest episode of ‘Logistics People Talk’, project logistics experts Carsten Schröter, Global Director Project Logistics at Rhenus, and Matthias Steffens, Head of Engineering at Rhenus Project Logistics, talk about what exactly project logistics entails, how a project progresses from the tender through to the transport and which specialist skills are needed.

Matthias Steffens dives deep into the various steps of the organisation of project cargo transports, such as tender management, planning and engineering, including route surveys, transport consulting and method statements. Carsten Schröter explains why project logistics is by far not your usual nine-to-five job, and that managing a project from start to finish requires a lot of dedication – and passion.

Both podcast guests explain that, through developments in the logistics industry and the subsequent move towards containerised freight as a standard, stevedoring skills such as loading and unloading break bulk and bulky cargo, lashing and securing various items in the belly of a ship or on trucks have diminished in the industry. But in project logistics, these unusual shipments and out-of-the-ordinary challenges are ever present. More industry insights and details about what makes it so compelling can be found in the newest episode of ‘Logistics People Talk’.

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Podcast Cover Episode 13 project logistics
Podcast Cover Episode 13 project logistics
03.11.2022

Logistics People Talk | Episode 13

Project logistics experts Carsten Schröter and Matthias Steffens dive deep into the field of heavy-lift and oversized project cargo handling.world-spanning industry.