50 million medical gloves from China to Germany
Geodis is ensuring the safe transport of the cargo from China to Germany. The company's freight forwarding unit in Germany won this major contract of 275 t in a public tender from the German government.
Around 50,000 boxes of gloves will be transported in five shipments from Chengdu, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, to Frankfurt and Nuremberg by airfreight and rail.
The first airfreight shipment from Chengdu Airport to Frankfurt took place on 19 May. This first partial delivery consisted of 2.5 million disposable gloves, packed in 2,500 boxes weighing almost 15 t. In Frankfurt, Geodis employees packed the goods on 40 pallets, cleared customs and prepared them for collection.
The first of the four shipments by rail departed from Chengdu to Nuremberg on 21 May. Loaded in 40-foot containers, 9,000 boxes with around nine million gloves arrived last weekend.
Four more containers left Chengdu on 28 May and 4 June. Further container shipments will follow on 18 and 25 June. The final shipment is planned to arrive in Nuremberg on 11 July. (mw)