As LSP provider, DAHER is in charge of insurance, customs clearance, interim storage before delivery, handling and unloading on site. Working backwards from the dates the components need to be on site, DAHER will plan all the steps in the transport process-from arranging the specific point of contact where it will take over responsibility for each load, to final delivery. We need to look into ship availability, pairing the needs of each load (i.e., heavy lift) with the capacity of each vessel.' 'We need to gather detailed information on manufacturing schedules and on the specificities of each load to be transported. 'The first phase of our mission is fact finding,' explains Laurence.
Laurence Prudhomme, operations manager, and Barry Paul, planning manager, are working closely with the ITER Organization and the Domestic Agencies to collect the many thousands of pieces of information that will allow the DAHER 'control room' to plan for-and closely follow-the delivery of ITER components according to the ITER Project's overall schedule. Following the selection of the European company DAHER as Logistics Service Provider (LSP) in February, a two-person DAHER team is now on site to pilot the initial planning phase of the LSP contract. Planning has begun for the complex logistics task of bringing ITER components from factories on three continents to the ITER site in Cadarache.
