C ASE S TUDY Moving Heineken! At the beginning of December 2010, Teahan Convoi Service received a desperate call re- garding the possibilities of transporting a total of eleven fermentation vessels from the Heineken Brewery in Reading for export in early January 2011. Although time was short, we first looked into the possibilities of using the River Thames, however this option soon had to be ruled out. Over the weeks to come, we spent many hours looking for suitable routes, only for them to be ruled out for various reasons. Eventually, after many weeks looking at all possibilities with several night time excursions to check the route, we had found a suitable route to Southampton docks. Although our final option would incorporate two recognized high load routes, we still had to

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