Saudi-based Almajdouie Logistics Company (MLC) has announced that it recently overcame a significant logistical challenge to deliver a cargo package of 34 heavy units in the Kingdom recently.
The major challenge was to cross the 140km road from Jazan Port to Jazan Economic City. Considering Jazan City’s tricky terrain, which is full of canals and a few overbridges that allow for a maximum transport capacity of 100 tonnes, moving a cargo of 500 tonnes appeared improbable.
After conducting surveys and feasibility studies, MLC engineers proposed the construction of asphalt bypasses over eight canals and cross those bridges during favourable weather.
The delivery however was further interrupted by a recent tropical typhoon in Yemen which brought about heavy rainfall on the scheduled day of the delivery, flooding the bypasses.
MLC therefore decided to halt the movement of the cargo until the water receded, with the units moved back on the asphalted bypasses later.
So far, 20 heavy units have been delivered, with the remaining scheduled for delivery in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Almajdouie’s newly appointed CEO Baheej has flagged off a new fleet of K25 brand 72 axle lines of Scheuerle Germany to meet the ‘growing demand of customers in the KSA and the GCC’, the company said in a press release.
