Fresenius Medical Care In-Center dialysis products, therapies and services for Healthcare Professionals.
17,962 miles halfway around the world
Safely packed
- A machine weighs 120 to 150 kg.
- Around 25 kg is the weight of the special packaging.
We’ve thought of everything, including all the climate zones on the sea route. Each machine easily withstands frost and air humidity – a basic requirement. Even so, the dialysis machine is carefully packaged for transportation to protect it against falls, moisture and heat. The 8,000 components of a dialysis machine must all be well protected. Better safe than sorry.
Loading
All set and ready for departure: One dialysis machine is going to Nepal, and last week a shipment was sent to Brazil. Ours is in line for Australia. It is loaded together with 45 other machines, as each container holds precisely 46 items. The journey can begin.
- Dialysis machines have been produced at the plant in Schweinfurt since 1979.
- The item is ready for dispatch just one to two weeks after ordering.
Train transfer
- 309 miles northwards by train
From asphalt to the railtrack. Nearly all international exports go through the Port of Hamburg. There’s no hanging about. The workers at Schweinfurt’s container terminal guarantee that every container delivered to Schweinfurt by 5 p.m. can be loaded onto a ship at the Elbe the very next day. Also our dialysis machine continues its journey that same evening. The freight train reaches the Port in Hamburg early in the morning, one of 200 trains transporting thousands of containers there every day.
Ocean transport
- 9,300,000 containers a year are handled at the Port of Hamburg.
Loading at the gigantic logistics hub. The Port of Hamburg is the biggest transshipment point for rail containers in the whole of Europe. The port railway alone has a track network of 124 miles. On the other side of the transshipment point, 5,000 container ships call at the port each year. Our container is loaded onto the NYK Vesta. The ship, built in 2007, sails back and forth between Tokyo and Hamburg. The NYK Vesta, one of the biggest container ships in the world, has a capacity of around 7,000 containers. We are traveling part of the way on it, 8,562 nautical miles, to be precise. As far as Singapore. Ahoy!
Delivery on-site
- Service by Fresenius Medical Care before the last leg of the journey
There’s one important thing left to do: Before the dialysis machine reaches the customer, it has to make another stop in Sydney. At Fresenius Medical Care in Australia, it is completely unpacked and all functions are checked – only then does it embark on the final stage of its journey: a road trip through the Outback. Our employees are on-site to set it up and install it.
