Sept 06, 2016: BNSF Logistics has delivered heavy cement mill components from Turkey to Kenya. The transportation firm collected the 1,500 cubic meters consignment from Izmir on Turkey’s Aegean coast and managed the complex move in collaboration with Turkish partner Smart Logistics in Istanbul.

From Izmir the cargo was transported by truck to Mersin Port in Turkey, where it was loaded onto flat racks for shipment with Messina Line to Mombasa, Kenya.

BNSF Logistics provides expertise in project cargo, ocean, rail, air, less-than-truckload and intermodal transport. It is the subsidiary of freight railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe which in turn is owned by the Berkshire Hathaway Holding Co.

Headquartered in Flower Mound, Texas, BNSF Logistics is a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium, which connects breakbulk and project cargo providers around the globe.

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