Successful logistics to export wood

They embarked 33 thousand tons of pine logs.

In the early morning of Sunday, December 18, the African Egret cargo ship sailed from the Port of Montevideo to China, a modern ship that was incorporated in September 2016 by the shipping company MUR Shipping, and that, in an almost unprecedented event, was loaded. with almost 33,000 tons of Uruguayan wood pine logs, during almost a week of uninterrupted work by personnel of the company Pantzin SA of port operations of the DSC Group.

It was one of the biggest challenges that have been lately seen with this specialized cargo in our main port terminal, since it meant an important planning and capital investment for a company of operations of loading and unloading of ships like Pantzsin, according to its information. director, Diego Silva, who less than three months ago has established his machinery of work and deposits of material and containers office, duly authorized by the National Ports Administration (ANP) in a plot of the port area.

The African Egret ship sailed for China with around 20,000 tons of pine distributed in its five warehouses and around 13,000 tons above them, meaning a cargo height on the main deck of the ship of almost eight meters.

This required a stowage system with important degrees of complexity, in order to take advantage of the space and also comply with the strict requirements and safety controls of the ship’s authorities and the representative of the shipowner of the shipping company MUR.

The loading operation of this vessel involved between 120 and 150 workers of the Pantzin company, distributed in various categories that included, among others, stevedores, gruístas, herramenteros, pointers, foremen, preventionists, cleaning personnel, to specialists in operational logistics and ship managers, divided into three shifts of eight hours a day during a week run, according to the company’s Operations and Planning Manager, Ms. Helga Paladino, with all the energizing effect that these operations mean in terms of a considerable amount also of indirect jobs before and during the course of the loading operation, which among things involved more than 1,200 trucks to transport the wood on board.

The successful loading operation in the best traditional style, with a deployment of unusual personnel unlike other cargoes such as containerized, during its development was visited on several occasions by the captain of the Port of Montevideo, Mr. Daniel Fernández, by the Ministry of Work and important managers of afforestation companies interested in the future export of wood, who maintained fluid contact are their legal representative Dr. Silvia Etchebarne Vivian.

Finally the African Egert left our main port with almost 10.5 meters of draft, having capitalized an enormous experience by the company of port operations.

It was expressed during the process of loading the business interest of exporting timber in very important quantities in the coming years.