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Russian Space Shuttle Buran arrived in Rotterdam 

Wednesday April 2nd 2008

Today the Russian Space Shuttle Buran arrived in Rotterdam on its way from Bahrain to Germany. The Buran is unloaded at Rotterdam. After this operation, it will depart on Saturday and travel up the Rhine to Mannheinm on a pontoon. From there it will be transported by road to the Technik Museum Speyer in Sinsheim.

The shuttle is 36 by 24 by 16 metres large, weights 61 tonnes. It falls under the category of "project cargo", by which Rotterdam would like to distinguish itself more. The Buran (meaning snowstorm or blizzard) is one of four Russian space shuttles to have been launched. The space ship was launched vertically and landed on a landing strip of 5 km long and 80 metres wide. The Programm was closed down in 1993, and the Buran came into the possession of the King of Bahrain, who has handed it over to the Technik Museum, where it will form part of the space exhibition entitled "Apollo & Beyond" this summer.

Steder Group did a double handling, the agency division acted as agent for the ship, the forwarding division for the cargo.

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