Jets Transport Pipes to Africa

Air Charter Service’s London office recently arranged two charters for an unwieldy load of oil pipes from France to Nigeria.

“It was such an awkward load that some operators had refused to quote on the business," Ben Dinsdale, senior account manager at ACS, said.

The fourteen 12½ meter long oil pipes were urgently needed for a floating production, storage and offloading unit located off the coastal city of Lagos. Some of the pipes weighed almost nine metric tons. The precarious load was successfully hoisted with cranes onto two side-by-side highloaders and then loaded aboard two B747-400Fs at Châlons Vatry airport in France.

The procedure was repeated in reverse at Lagos.