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Trailer Interception
The Italian Job
Burning Rubber
There and back
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Aircraft Convoy
Trailer Interception
A prime example of our service came in the shape of a call from
an automotive manufacturer who called at 22:30 with a problem.
A sequenced delivery was stuck on a trailer on the French /
Belgian border due to the driver having run out of hours.
We quickly arranged to meet the trailer, identified the correct
parts, and re-loaded the part shipment on to a small van, which
took the goods to a charter flight, which we had already positioned
at Ostend. The parts were delivered by 06:30 the following morning,
thus avoiding the feared production stoppage.
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The
Italian Job
An automotive component supplier called in Evolution to investigate
alternatives to a costly aircraft charter movement they were
incurring nightly, from Northern Italy to Birmingham.
The final solution involved the supplier having the parts ready
just 1 hour earlier at 21:30. This enabled us to access our
direct night freighter leaving at midnight, arriving in the
UK at 01:00. The result was that the required 04:30 delivery
time was still achieved, as it was with the aircraft charters,
but saving thousands of pounds each night.
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Burning
Rubber
An urgent call was received at our East Midlands centre explaining
that a very large consignment of tyres was urgently needed in
the USA, to be fitted to a fleet of demonstration cars at an
all important US press launch.
1405 loose car tyres and 10 pallets of alloy wheels with a total
weight of 28,650 kgs, were ready on Saturday morning. They had
to be delivered in Brunswick, Georgia, by Sunday, following
customs clearance and assembly at the central logistics centre.
A dedicated charter DC10 was positioned to fly from East Midlands
to Atlanta. A fleet of trailer vehicles was arranged to collect
from the manufacturer and deliver direct to the aircraft side
for palletisation and loading of the aircraft, which departed
at 14:00, arriving at destination at 19:45 US local on Saturday.
Customs clearance was swiftly effected, and a fleet of trailer
vehicles were on standby to make the final delivery on time.
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There
and back
A UK automotive manufacturer had a Slovenian supplier which
was unable to meet their increased demand for parts.
The problem being that the supplier was short of vital raw
material, which was actually sourced from the UK!
The raw material was ready at 18:30 and the deadline for
delivery to the supplier in Slovenia was 04:00 following morning.
The decision was taken to hand carry the raw material on a
chartered aircraft, with a member of Evolution staff as the
onboard courier.
He was flown in to Graz in Southern Austria that night, the
closest and most convenient airport to the supplier based
in Northern Slovenia. Our onboard courier landed and quickly
jumped in to a pre-arranged taxi, which took him the two-hour
journey including the border crossing, with delivery being
made at 03:55. The raw material was then used in production,
followed by two sequenced charters of the final product back
to the UK, all overseen by our member of staff who travelled
back on the final charter.
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Trains,
Planes and Automobiles
Bank Holiday Friday, a customer called with an emergency.
Critical parts were ready in Southern Italy and were required
for delivery to their production line by 10:00 on Saturday
morning. We arranged for one of our onboard courier team to
collect the goods immediately and travel the long journey
by train to Milan, meeting a tight connection to travel to
Birmingham airport by plane landing at 07:50 on Saturday morning.
The onboard courier was collected from the airport by car,
the goods being delivered at 08:40 – the high cost of
a charter and production stoppage time being averted.
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Aircraft
Convoy
A sudden change in production schedule required an East European
OEM to expedite components from a Tier 1 supplier to ensure
uninterrupted production.
The requirement was for five fixed wing aircraft charters
to fly at fixed intervals from Poland to the Czech Republic.
The call was taken at our 24 hour Control Centre in the late
evening, and collections were arranged to meet the aircraft
we had chartered at hourly intervals, between 0030hrs and
0530hrs.
All aircraft flew to schedule, and pre-arranged ground handling
ensured that the shipments were recovered from the aircraft
within 20 minutes and loaded onto waiting ground transport
for immediate delivery line-side.
All components were delivered on time, production was maintained,
and sequence control facilitation was met in full.
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