IAL Projects - Specialized Logistics and Transportation

IAL Projects specializes in handling global project logistics with special characteristics: heavy transport, oversized cargo, cargo with time and / or security constraints, and shipping to remote and difficult-to-access locations. Our area of operations includes the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa. No matter what the size and the complexities involved, our experienced teams of professionals work to create the solution to handle your requirements.

At IAL Projects we focus on the four core components of specialized logistics handling and transportation: planning, execution, monitoring and control.

Planning of specialized logistics and transportation

Sound planning is the backbone of every project. At IAL Projects, we work with applied knowledge gained through our experienced team and complemented through the local knowledge of our global offices and partners. Our attention to detail in the planning stage is what ensures a smooth execution of every project logistics operation that we undertake.

Every transportation project is the sum of its parts. From the first mile to the last mile of the project, IAL Projects addresses all the respective activities required to ensure a successful execution every time. Key focuses include:

• Origin port services
• Physical transportation
• Destination port services
• Storage services
• Delivery services
• Positioning and assembly works
• Coordination, supervision and consulting services
• Site surveys
• Route clearances

The planning stage caters to comprehensive operational planning and resources planning (men, material and money) to ensure that every part of the transportation project is optimized.

Execution of specialized transportation and logistics

The right resources, at the right place at the right time are the essential requirements for a successful transportation project execution. IAL Projects specializes its service offering in the Middle East, the Indian Sub-continent and Africa. With offices ideally located in gateway and strategic cities in India and Pakistan covering the entire sub-continent, in UAE covering the Middle East and in Tanzania covering the entire central and East African region, IAL Projects' local presence ensures a through service execution.

IAL Projects is equipped with its own infrastructure capabilities to ensure that all "touch points" of service execution are handled to the highest standards. Capabilities include:

• Customs-bonded and non-bonded warehouses
• Open-yard facilities
• Fully equipped workshops
• High capacity haulage vehicles
• Handling equipments
• Specialized project teams for offshore and marine operations
• Shore-based heavy lifting equipments
• Marine spreads (barges / tugs) for offshore operations in coastal waters
• Pool of project carriers / bulk vessels regularly loading for various sectors
• Transport and logistics monitoring

At IAL Projects, we ensure that what we plan is what is executed. Through constant monitoring and "feed-forward control systems" we ensure that our service deliverables are executed in line with our plans. By utilizing state-of-the-art IT systems to monitor and track the progress of projects, IAL Projects team can take appropriate control measures at the right time.

Transportation project control

IAL Projects' "feed-forward control systems" enable you to plan ahead and act without delays in troubleshooting potential problems. Our hands-on approach and local presence allow us to take control of the situation before it gets out of hand and thereby allows us to ensure that operations are as per the plan.

Our Project logistics service is an integrated, turnkey transportation project management and forwarding service for large-scale, logistically complex projects.

Specialized logistics and transportation project portfolio

IAL Projects has already successfully undertaken a large range of high-profile traportation projects. Our clients nad project details include:

• United Nations, Central Africa: military demobilization projects of peace-keeping forces for worldwide military groups, including transport and handling of armored personnel carriers
• Tanesco, Tanzania: 75MT to 150MT heavy lift transformers by sea from Dar e Salaam, Tanzania to Zanzibar. Included barging operations /ro-ro / site delivery
• Gold Mine Nzega, Tanzania: earth moving equipment logistics through tough terrain into Kenya
• Interfreight Panalpina, Tanzania: over 25000 frt of project cargo to upcountry destinations
• Amoco / Zesco, Tanzania: heavy earth moving and erecting equipment from port to destination including road haulage
• Marubeni Corp, Japan: Over 10,000 ft of drilling rig equipment consisting of ODC’s and heavy lifts
• Larsen & Toubro, India: SS-2 gas exploration project handling of machinery and piping including de-mob operations
• Krishnapatnam Port, India: commissioning of port for NEC Ltd, entailing handling of heavy lift cranes and dredgers up to 450t (ongoing assignment until 2012)
• MRM, Kenya: barging operations for fixed time charters under COA in major and minor ports in East Africa