“Celtic Forwarding Works with Smurfit on Three Continents to Complete the Job”

Dublin, Ireland, October 4th, 2005 – International paper and corrugated boxes giant, Jefferson Smurfit Group (Smurfit), finds that Celtic Forwarding has what it takes to get a successfully coordinate the move of a 55 ton boiler, with dimensions of 6.05x4.20x4.70m, from Ireland to Argentina. But the job wasn’t nearly as straightforward as it sounds. “This was a very unusual shipment from many aspects,” said Ken Behan of Celtic Forwarding, “we had the original lead on this from Spain, the party controlling the shipment was in Miami, the shipment was in Dublin but went out via a port in Cork at the opposite end of Ireland. There was a lot of coordination, but we got the job done beyond expections. We always go the extra mile.”

The boiler moved at night time overland from Clonskeagh in the Dublin area to Cork in the southwest of Ireland where it was loaded on a Grimaldi feeder and then shipped from Cork to Buenos Aires via Antwerp. A separate shipment of 3x40’ open top containers containing the boiler’s conveyor system being shipped to Buenos Aires directly from Dublin’s port.

Smurfit is a diverse group of corrugated packaging companies currently with operations in Europe, North America and in South America. On September 13th, 2005, Smurfit announced they are to be undergoing a merger with Kappa Packaging, which, once successfully completed will bring them to a total of operations in 23 European countries and 9 Latin American countries. This would increase Smurfit’s international trade dramatically. “In the past Smurfit had trusted Celtic Forwarding with some overland movements within Europe,” says Behan, “but this is the first time that we have gotten the chance to move their cargo by ocean freight.”

Celtic Forwarding Limited is an International Freight Forwarding Company operating since 1979. They are currently the only Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) member in Ireland. Celtic covers all of Ireland with five offices. The Global Projects Logistics Network is a non-exclusive professional projects logistics group for independent companies specializing in international projects shipping by air, sea and land as well as specialized lifts and handling of oversized, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo.