{"id":1609,"date":"2019-10-10T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:40:26","slug":"urgent-plane-transport-heavy-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/urgent-plane-transport-heavy-mold","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia-Portugal: Urgent transport of a 4-ton automotive mold"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Urgent plane transport of a 4-ton automotive mold<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What happened?<\/strong> A Slovak automotive plant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted us<\/a> urgently: a mold had broken on their production line. Moreover, the only specialist able to fix it is located in <strong>Portugal<\/strong>, 3000km away. Therefore, we needed to organize a return journey as quickly as possible to <strong>shorten the production disruption.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Challenge: <\/strong>The mold on the pallet weighed 4 tons and the <strong>return trip represented 6,000km<\/strong>. That is to say, a heavy load and a challenging journey for unplanned plane transportation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATC\u00ae<\/a> offered a <strong>complete<\/strong> <strong>urgent plane transport solution<\/strong>. We positioned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/air-charter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chartered Antonov<\/a> with an internal loading crane. Then we monitored the pickup, delivery between the factories, and handling at the airports.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>heavy 4 tons mold<\/strong> was loaded on the plane and landed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Lisbon+Portela+Airport\/@38.7755936,-9.1353667,15z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa66a53e58036d46!8m2!3d38.7755936!4d-9.1353667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lisbon airport<\/a> Portugal that same evening.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a night of repair work, the mold left Lisbon at 10 am. It was back on the production line at 4 pm in Slovakia. Line stoppage minimized \u2013 Mission accomplished.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"tw-target-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do you have to organize urgent corrective maintenance and spare parts delivery door to door? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtimecritical.com\/en\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get in touch with ATC\u00ae<\/a> today to discuss it and put in place an emergency action plan.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Did you know it?<\/strong> Portugal is a reference country in Europe for the machining of industrial molds. Produced in Marinha Grande and Oliveira de Azem\u00e9is, a 2-3 hour drive from Lisbon, 82% of the moulds produced in Portugal are intended for the automotive industry (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldmakingtechnology.com\/articles\/state-of-mold-manufacturing-in-portugal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MoldMaking<\/a>)<\/pre>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Air Time Critical\u00ae, find out an impressive urgent transport of a 4 tonne automobile mold by plane between Portugal and Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[875],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airfreight-transport-examples","tag-air-charter-urgent-cargo-charter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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