While the vast majority of logistics jobs involve moving packages and containerised cargo from point A to point B, occasionally a job comes along that is so difficult, so large in scale and complexity that only a specialised team of experts could attempt it.

It is the growing number of these seemingly impossible projects that has spurred BDP International to expand its capabilities to a new subsidiary dedicated to large and difficult logistics projects across the globe.

Based in Singapore and called BDP Project Logistics, the new subsidiary will scorn easy projects and aggressively go after the jobs that others consider to be too hard.

Many of these big and complex projects are in the energy and natural resources markets such as the construction, mining, power, oil, natural gas and chemical industries. And often the projects are located in remote locations in emerging markets such as China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Russia and the former CIS countries.

Chief executive officer of BDP Project Logistics, Peter Huels, said: "BDP has a long established reputation for doing the difficult things well. As the demand for resources and energy booms, we are being approached by companies asking us to tackle exceptionally complex jobs in problematic locations.

"To be able to complete these jobs requires a special type of team which can think outside the traditional rules and find solutions where initially there does not appear to be one."

BDP Project Logistics has already secured a number of assignments including:

* Transport for a new industrial park located in Leuna, Germany for chemical giant Quinn Chemicals. This multimillion dollar project involves constructing a bridge over a railway track and its overhead power cables just so equipment could be moved to the site without shutting down the high traffic rail line between Erfurt and Halle.

* Logistics and transport for reactors and related equipment from Indonesia to northern Iraq for a US-based power company.

* Logistics planning and transport involving machinery and equipment from Europe, Japan and North America for the construction of a chemical manufacturing plant near Guangzhou, China.

By: CNA Staff Singapore