98 garages have been on their way from Bamberg to Utrecht in Holland over the past few days

ZAPF GmbH usually delivers its prefabricated concrete garages using special trucks and cranes. However, large projects require unusual procedures and so, on November 16 and 18, the renowned manufacturer of prefabricated concrete garages from Bayreuth loaded 98 garages onto a total of two ships, which are now on their way to Utrecht in the Netherlands via the Main and Rhine rivers.

 

All 98 garages, including a wide variety of sizes and models, were produced at the ZAPF plant in Weidenberg near Bayreuth and then transported to the port in Bamberg by truck. “One day was scheduled for loading each ship. The trucks left Weidenberg at regular intervals and arrived in Bamberg at staggered intervals. A truck-mounted crane then loaded the garages from the truck onto the ships,” explains ZAPF Marketing Manager Markus Hölzl.

 

The two cargo ships with the high-quality prefabricated garages from Upper Franconia are currently on their approximately one-week journey to Utrecht, where the garages will then be loaded back onto trucks. However, a longer journey by road is not imminent, as all the garages are destined for a modern garage park – which is being built just a few kilometers from the port.

 

Several months of preparation were required for the entire organization and planning of the transport. Although the effort involved was considerable, shipping was the obvious choice for this large order, says Hölzl. “It was possible to transport 49 garages at once per ship, which is much more effective than transporting them by road – and also in terms of the carbon footprint. The trucks only have to be used for short distances. For a complete delivery by road, over 50 truck transports would have been necessary. Each truck would have had to travel over 1300 km there and back,” explains the marketing manager.