Schenker brings the Football Globe

Item Entered: Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Schenker Brings the Football Globe of the FIFA WM 2006™ (World Cup) to the FIFA WC Cities

By day a football, at night an illuminated globe: the Football Globe of the FIFA WM 2006™ (World Cup) is touring around Germany until 31st July 2006. The opening of the multimedia globe took place in Berlin on 12th September 2003.

Since then the Football Globe has been shown in the FIFA WC cities of Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg, Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund, Kaiserslautern, Nuremberg and Hanover. On its journey, which will continue until July 31, 2006, it makes a stop at all twelve venues of the FIFA WM 2006™ (World Cup) location. Since it was dismantled in Gelsenkirchen, the Fussball-Globus (Football Globe) has borne the label "Moved by Schenker". As a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, which is a "Nationaler Förderer der FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006™" (national supplier to the FIFA Football World Cup 2006), Schenker has taken on the transportation logistics for the Football Globe.

60 tons of steel and 4.8 kilometers of cable
The assembly and dismantling at each location takes about a month each time. The German SCHENKERglobalsportsevents team in collaboration with Schenker staff from the special transportation departments of the Hanover and Hagen business locations provide the transportation coordination, delivery as required of the components and the equipment as well as the supplies. Besides 60 tons of steel that fill six Schenker semi-trailers, there are among other things about 4.8 kilometers of cable, 20,000 high-output power LEDs, 40 loudspeaker systems and 20 projectors incorporated into the 20 meter-high Football Globe.

International sports logistics: Schenker is present
Schenker is the official logistics service provider to the FIFA WM 2006™ (World Cup). Because in terms of logistics for major sports events the logistics service provider can produce a series of first-class references. Thus for instance Schenker was engaged as a supplier of Host Broadcasting Services (HBS) at the last FIFA WM 2002™ (World Cup) in Japan and Korea. On behalf of Infront, the owner of the TV rights, this company provides the television transmissions to all the countries in the world. Both at the last FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft™ (Football World Cup) and at the UEFA Euro 2004™ in Portugal, Schenker handled the entire logistics for the Deutsche Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Federation). In the course of a long-term partnership contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Schenker was also involved as a supplier at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and it will also be involved in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin.