Buddha on the move

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07 September 2010

Maxlines Forwarder Co. Ltd in Taiwan, moved a 10 tonne, 4.5 m high statue of the sitting Buddha Maitreya from the Port of Keelung in Taiwan to Belawan Port in Indonesia.

The Buddha statue was packed into seaworthy wooden crates and loaded onto a 40 foot (12 m) flat rack for the ocean voyage.

Another notable undertaking by Maxlines was the transportation of a CFB boiler set from Tianjin port, China to Taichung port in Taiwan. The scope of work covered the safe transportation of 64 components of delicate boiler equipment weighing 258.9 tonnes and occupying a volume of 681.07 cubic metres.

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