New opportunities are bringing a range of new challenges for project cargo forwarders, writes Phil Hastings.

South America, Africa and Asia are emerging as three of the key areas for future mining industry developments and related heavy lift/project cargo business. With that new business, though, could come a raft of new operational challenges for logistics providers forced to work with often inadequate transport infrastructures.

Some of the latest evidence of South America’s mining industry logistics business potential was provided by BDP Project Logistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of US-based global logistics firm BDP International, with the appointment earlier this year of Arndt Droegemueller as the company’s director of business development for the continent, with a specific brief to focus on the mid-market mining and energy sectors.

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