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AMSTERDAM's GSSA Active Airline Representatives has supervised the transportation by air of a freighter full of pregnant cows destined for Yakutsk, Siberia.
As GSSA for Coyne Airways in Holland, Active received the initial enquiry for the shipment from local specialist livestock freight agent Merzario BV. Since the consignment comprised 155 animals, each heifer weighing 525-600 kilogrammes, Coyne chartered a B747 freighter and ensured the right unloader was available at the destination.
The cattle were trucked from the exporter in Austria to Frankfurt Hahn Airport. Meanwhile, Roel van den Boogaard, general manager of Merzario, and Active managing director Ton Smulders went to the airport to oversee the truck-to-plan transfer, a company statement said.
At Frankfurt Hahn, the cows were transferred into a warehouse under veterinary control into purpose-built disposable wooden cattle pens, mounted on 31 airline pallets. They were then taken out onto the ramp, and loaded onto the freighter.
The flight left Hahn at 0100 hrs arriving in Yakutsk, where the cows were unloaded eight hours later and delivered to the consignee 70 kilometres away, still in their temporary pens.
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