PANALPINA IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

 

The Panalpina Group is one of the world’s leading suppliers of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in intercontinental Air Freight and Ocean Freight shipments and associated Supply Chain Management solutions. Panalpina in Central Asia, with its headquarters in Baku, with 7 offices in Kazakhstan and 3 offices in Turkmenistan, has successfully served the Caspian market since 1995 with effective transport and logistics solutions. Its objective is to become an expert on each of its client’s needs and requirements by striving for Operational Excellence through business process standardization and customer focused solutions. Panalpina is working closely with selected partners to ensure the highest standards of the industry.

Panalpina has specialized in catering for the needs of number of key industries, offering manufacturers and their suppliers customized forwarding services with substantial added benefits. Panalpina’s network of branches throughout the world allows it to implement transport solution on a global scale.

 

Oil and Gas Industry

Panalpina operates in most of the major oil and gas exploration and production areas of the world. With 50 years experience in global logistics for O&G and 110 years experience in international transportation, Panalpina offers professional logistics and related services in the offshore and onshore sector. Its customer base includes leading oil and gas producers, drilling companies, oilfield supply companies, construction firms and many others in the industry. With decades of experience in the oil and gas industry, Panalpina has the in depth specialist knowledge and a range of services precisely targeted to its client’s needs. It has major presence in vital regions such as Europe, West Africa, North America, South East Asia and East and Central Asia, CIS and is expanding in emerging markets.

Professionals with many years of experience in offshore and onshore logistics and related services work in the permafrost and arctic regions of Siberia, the coast of West Africa, the North African Sahara, the Middle East, remote areas of Newfoundland and the Caspian Republic of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

In combination with the traditional freight forwarding services, Panalpina’s offshore support package provides an integrated supply chain with subsequent saving in overall logistics costs for the customer.

Whenever required, Panalpina set up mobile working teams and mobile field office that can quickly adapt to the changing working location and associated conditions.

 

Panalpina’s Beluga and Beluga 2 barges

Panalpina Central Asia has made major investment in the course of the last two years into the design and building of two special type RO/RO semi-submersible ice-class barges called Beluga and Beluga 2, the purchase of four 500hp prime movers and of 44 hydraulic axle lines, the re-enforcement of Lotos shipyard in Astrakhan as a heavy lift trans-shipment point, the construction of a RO/RO jetty on the Ural river, the building of a public access road connecting its jetty in Atyrau to the main road, the rising of high-tension power-lines and the mobilization of a large quantity of auxiliary materials. The Beluga Barges can operate in the Caspian, Baltic and Northern Seas, in rivers and shallow waters and in support of offshore drilling platforms. The acquisition and deployment of its own equipment in the area, the in-house expertise and an exemplary “deliver on time” record, manifest the bench-mark position of Panalpina as a provider of specialized transport solutions to the Oil & Gas industry in the Caspian Region.

 

Local Services

In addition to portfolio of Panalpina products globally, we have adapted many of our services to meet the specific needs of local market including:

- Rig moves

- Route surveys and technical stusies/plans for oversize cargo moves by air, inland waterways, on road and by rail.

- Transportation of oversized equipment and materials

- Port agency & Husbandry

- Stevedoring

- Barge and tug supply

80% of business is related to O&G business: exploration, productions and downstream projects.

 

At home all over the world

Panalpina, a team of 14,000 people operating from 500 offices in 80 countries, means that it is not only big enough to meet all your global transport and logistic needs, but it is also closely in tune with local markets, allowing it to feel at home and provide its clients with localized and personal service everywhere in the world. Like its colleagues around the world, each member of the Panalpina Azerbaijan team is committed to applying “A Passion for Solutions” to ensuring that the client’s goods arrive on time, every time. So wherever you are or whatever you do, you can be assured that Panalpina is ready to demonstrate how its passion for solutions can contribute to its client’s success.