Tackling Challenges around Pipe Logistics

To meet the full range of any existing transportation requirements, egeplast Logistics cooperates with experienced freight forwarders and uses a wide range of vehicles and trailers such as dumper vehicles, crane trucks, telescopic trailers and open mega-trailers for safe and at the same time maximally efficient transportation. Recently, 15-meter trailers with greater capacity, thus affording an even more efficient means of transportation, have also come to be used in Germany. At the same time, the Logistics Department’s day-to-day business also entails customised and optimised container shipment for overseas transport.

Markus Hollenhorst, the Head of egeplast Logistics, is already in the process or preparing further optimisations for the customers. Enhanced digitalisation of the processes involved in the framework of on a transport management system supports time-window control as well as track and trace and status information throughout the entire transportation chain. It increases the transparency and security of the process via features such as previous announcement of expected arrival times, live position data, GPS tracking, visual documentation of loading and signalling of potential delivery impediments.

To ensure that the correct goods are selected for shipment, any storage and loading processes on the 70,000 sm-storage area on the egeplast premises are managed from a control station. Also, the articles are stored in separate sections grouped by business segments and types of articles. Since the products come in all forms, shapes and dimensions, state-of-the-art 4-way forklifts are used which are even suitable for loading pipes weighing 5 tons safely and free from damage.