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Moving stories: media on the move

Added November 29th, 2010

With a global media and a worldwide audience it is vital to work with experts in logistics – ensuring information is correctly distributed to both you and your audience.

EFM has many years of experience in media movement – we freight broadcasting and media equipment on a weekly basis all over the world, from 1kg to 50,000kgs per shipment. Our team are experts in the safe handling of high value and usually urgent media equipment – including cameras, cabling, Outside Broadcasting vehicles, satellite uplink and transmission equipment, lighting, desks, power supply and tapes / discs. EFM has worked in countries as diverse as Russia, China, USA, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and Iran, to name a few examples, and can assist in air, road and sea transportation, as well as aircraft chartering and documentation e.g. raising ATA Carnets, organising temporary import bonds, and applying for permissions where required by the local country, in addition to on-site attendance and handling within broadcasting and media centres, film rushes and the removal and off-site storage of empty flight cases.

Please find below a flavour of the kind of work we have handled in this area:

  • EFM has provided on-site operations within venues, MPC (Main Press Centre) and IBC (International Broadcasting Centre) facilities at all the major international sporting events, including most recently at the Melbourne Open Tennis, Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Football World Cup in South Africa and the Olympics in Beijing.
  • Organised the door to door transportation of over 50 films for screenings at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, from countries that included USA, Lebanon, UK, France, UAE, Italy, Canada and Norway, all of which had to be safely returned again after the Festival.
  • Flown 4 tons of TV camera equipment to Dubai for the arrival of the QE2 into Port Rashid.
  • Ensured 10 tons of TV camera equipment arrived at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas for an ongoing world televised poker tournament.
  • Transported over 100 tons of media equipment via airfreight from across Europe for the West Asian and Asian Games in Qatar and back again.
  • Hand-carried recorded tapes from overseas events and recordings to editing suites around the world.
  • Flown 3 tons of TV camera equipment to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo for a live WWE broadcast.
  • Shipped Outside Broadcasting vehicles and equipment by air, road and sea to Middle East, Asia and South Africa amongst other locations.
  • Freighted equipment door to door, on a regular basis for documentary makers and camera crews, within the tightest timeframes, to avoid expensive airline excess baggage bills.
  • Handled panic shipments of replacement camera parts and related equipment to major events for broadcasting companies at e.g. Commonwealth Games 2002 – 2010, European Football Championships 2000-2008, Asian Games 2006 & 2010, Summer & Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games 2000 – 2010, Football World Cup 2002-2010.