Transport Friday 18 December 2015 was the big deadline for all of us. A 20 feet container of Transfennica had to be fi lled with all our equipment and prepared materials. Beside all the stuff we needed for the bridge in Ice, Candela pavilion and the Snowtrack, also our private goods where transported with this container. Even food for seven weeks was packed. After 3 hours the container was fully loaded and ready for transport. We also met our colleges from Belgium and all the members of the media team. It felt we already were on our trip to Finland. During the building period, we had a lot of help of the local volunteers. With pickup trucks and mini vans they delivered all the equipment we needed. One of our big sponsors DB Schenker installed a 20 feet heated container where we could store materials and drink a cup of coff ee. Two months after building the Bridge in Ice the container came back to Antwerp. Without the help of all the sponsors we would not have been able to manage the transport of our goods this properly. “DB Schenker stands for the transportation and logistics activities of Deutsche Bahn employing people in 140 countries worldwide. We at DB Schenker want to build bridges between people and help local actors pay it forward. DB Schenker off ers expertise in land, air and ocean transport as well as in contract logistics. We are on top of the game when operating in freezing conditions and on icy roads of eastern Finland. We wanted to support the Bridge in Ice volunteers to reach their dream by providing them with a trailer to store equipment during building process. The same trailer transformed into a stage for the grand opening giving us all a fi rst seat row in the ceremony. We also encouraged our own employees to volunteer in the building process giving us all a chance to be part in something bigger. Even though the weather didn’t act on our behalf this year we are dazzled to see how devoted the volunteers and people in Juuka were in taking the most out of it all. We wanted to inspire everybody to connect and be involved in a piece of ice building history. And that is exactly what we succeeded in achieving.” Pasi Ripatti, Head of Communications and Marketing 15
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