TKM Global and TATA

Project Overview

TKM Global and TATA faced a formidable challenge: transporting a Ball Mill unit weighing over 118 tonnes across more than 2,200 kilometres, spanning both road and sea corridors. The cargo originated at LNV Technologies in Trichy and needed to reach its final destination in Jamshedpur — a multi-modal journey demanding seamless coordination at every stage.

axldrone integrated its advanced tracking device and AI-driven platform throughout the project, empowering the project coordination teams with continuous visibility, predictive analytics, and intelligent alerts from the moment the unit left the factory to final delivery.

Summary

Moving a single 118-tonne industrial unit across 2,200 kilometres via road and sea is among the most complex logistics operations undertaken in India. Without real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and intelligent coordination tools, such a transit is defined by uncertainty — idle time that compounds, delays that cascade, and stakeholders operating blind.

axldrone provided the TATA and TKM Global teams with an integrated platform that transformed this uncertainty into operational confidence. The result was an on-schedule delivery with complete Drone Video Documentation of every milestone — setting a new benchmark for how technology can elevate heavy logistics.

The Challenge

Moving a massive 118-tonne Ball Mill unit over 2,200 kilometres across road and sea introduced a cascade of logistical, operational, and safety challenges that conventional tracking methods were not equipped to handle.

Key Problems

• No real-time visibility into cargo location across multi-day road and sea transit legs
• Inability to predict arrival windows accurately across a complex multi-modal route
• Accumulation of idle time at bottlenecks port holds, road blocks, permit checkpoints
• Geo-specific transit challenges including bridge clearances, coastal weather, and convoy regulations
• Coordinating multiple stakeholders port authorities, road permit offices, ocean freight operators without a unified data layer
• No centralized documentation of transit milestones for audit, insurance, or logistics review

Objectives

What the Client Needed

• Continuous, real-time cargo location tracking across all transit modes
• Predictive arrival analytics with dynamic updates
• Intelligent automated alerts for idle time and route deviations
• Route optimization insights delivered live to field teams
• Complete video documentation of milestones and obstacles
• A single dashboard for all stakeholders to operate from

Key Capabilities Delivered

axldrone's integrated platform provided the project team with a live, unified operational picture across the entire 2,200 km journey — covering road convoys, port handling, and ocean freight without interruption.

• Real-time location tracking : Continuous GPS-based cargo telemetry across road, port, and maritime legs.
• Predictive arrival analytics : AI-powered delivery window forecasts, updated dynamically as conditions changed.
• Intelligent automated alerts : Flags for extended idle periods, route deviations, and port holding delays before they escalated.
• Geo-specific bottleneck identification : Recurring delay hotspots mapped and surfaced to the operations team ahead of the convoy's arrival.