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Logimar in the desert of Niger

Published on Project Cargo Italy, annual supplement of Shipping Italy  Prefabricated buildings, living units, bundles for floor and roof, some containers. 9000 cubic meters in Break Bulk and 55 containers, in several units, from Italy to the deep, very deep of Niger. Destination: somewhere in the desert in the centre of Niger, 1000 km from Niamey, 1800 km from the port of Cotonou in Benin. Scope of the client: to build a modular base for an international organization. The shipments from Italy continued for 5 months until few times before the beginning of the lock down in February 2020. Shipments in break bulk and containers. From Italy to the port of Cotonou in Benin, where the agent of Logimar was handling the handling and the transports. A total of 170 trucks have been moved, without any transshipment and directly from the port to destination, not far away from Tchirozerine. The difficulty of the trip is due to the long distance to cover, a great part of which was in the desert on a road mapped out in the sand and for the last four/five hundred kilometres the path was uneven and with big potholes, also of 60 cm and the…