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trailer world issue Two 2010

    Issue Two 2010  31 International SOCHI TURKEY GEORGIA RUSSIA UKRAINE Adler GEORGIA Black Sea Black Sea RUSSIA Kudepsta Mzym ta Sochi Khosta Matsesta Izmaylovka Krasnaya PolyanaPlastunkaDagomys Olympic Village Olympic Village Hotel Press Centre Press centre Short track Speed skating Figure skating Curling Ice hockey Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton Ski AlpinSnowboard Freestyle Ski jumping Nordic combined Cross country Biathlon at the forefront. Furthermore, accommodation has to be constructed in the Olympic Village alone for around 18,000 athletes, trainers and officials. Cement for houses and roads is being supplied amongst others by Knauf and Asamer. 40,000 spectators are expected to attend the games, and so 200 hotels are being erected in the greater Sochi region. More than half of them will have four or five stars. Two are to be built by Helmut Ringbauer from Württemberg for the Schlet- terer Group. “Actually we were supposed to start work in the summer, but it always takes a bit longer to get building permission in Rus- sia”, he says. Schletterer now hopes to hold the ground-breaking ceremony in spring 2011. Even so, Ringbauer is still in no doubt that it will all be ready on time. “Once we get going, there’s no stopping us, we’ll be 24/7 on the job”, he says. 20,000 transport units needed In fact, lots of construction work is already going on round the clock. Radio masts for mobile phone reception, sewage plants, water- works, landfill sites, recycling centres and even power stations – with the dry cooling system for one being supplied by the GEA Group in Bochum – are under construction to ensure that the Games will run smoothly. The road and rail network is also being upgraded. Not only the city’s roads have to be improved. Between Moscow and Sochi, al- together 2,500 km of road have to be renewed. The tracks between Tuapse and the district of Adler in Sochi are being replaced over a distance of 350 km. Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska is turning the obsolete Adler airfield into a state-of-the-art airport with assistance from Strabag/Austria, so that it can cope with up to four million passengers a year by 2014. Deripaska is also responsible for con- struction of a new freight port in Sochi. After all, Russia’s transport minister Igor Levitin estimates that 100 million tonnes of con- struction material are having to be brought to Sochi for the construction work. Seven million tonnes of cement alone are neces- sary, let alone far more gravel and sand, al- though this is available locally. Steel comes from the Ural, machinery and equipment is frequently imported. The material is brought to Sochi partly on the inland waterways, but above all by rail and road. The building sites resemble bee hives. One truck arrives, the next is being unloaded, a third sets off for the landfill site full of rubble: a real logistics challenge in order to plan the timing of all these movements. After all, a container is being unloaded practically every 70 seconds. And this all needs heaps of transport capacity. Calculations indi- cate a need for 20,000 transport units over the next four years. These include truck cranes and construction cranes, diggers and bulldoz- ers, mobile cement containers and of course above all, tipper vehicles and semitrailers. Up to 2,000 of these trucks will be necessary to cope with transporting all the goods and materials. (ab) BPW in Russia n  BPW Ost supplies axles and chassis systems for trailers and semitrailers. Its customer base in Russia includes among others the largest Russian producers Ural, Kamski Savod Trans- masch, Terstroimasch and also the Novtruck factory belonging to the Sommer Group or the repair company Global Truck Service. Managing Director of BPW Ost is Wilfried Winkler. n  Contact: BPW-Ost Leningradskoye Shosse 25 A 141402 Moscow, Khimki Phone +7 095 7716177 bpw-ost@co.ru www.bpw-ost.ru Alik Lej is fighting to preserve the old communities and against the “Olympics at any price”.

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