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Who We Are

Abnormal Solutions Cape Town is a specialised logistics management company with a strong focus on the renewable energy sector. With over twenty years of combined experience, we pride ourselves on providing a fully integrated approach to abnormal transport solutions.

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Our Philosophy

Our philosophy is built on partnerships, not subcontracting.  Before any project begins, we align with our partners on the project vision, expectations, and delivery requirements. Strategic preparation meetings are held well in advance, allowing us to set clear timelines, coordinated responsibilities, and transparent communication.

While our transport partners handle the trucks, personnel, equipment, and maintenance, we focus on managing the bigger picture — coordination, oversight, and execution.  This creates one integrated team approach, avoiding fragmented responsibilities and ensuring seamless delivery.

Our Story

Abnormal Solutions Cape Town was founded in 2012 by Franco Bornmann.  Our first major assignments were among South Africa’s pioneering wind farms – the Hopefield and Klipheuwel wind farms near Caledon.

Since then, we’ve played a key role in over 40 wind farm projects nationwide, working alongside leading international companies in the renewable energy industry.

While our core expertise lies in wind energy logistics, we’ve successfully managed projects in solar, mining, and other heavy industries, expanding our solutions to diverse abnormal transport challenges

.Our reach extends beyond South Africa, with successful projects completed in Namibia, Gabon, and Central Africa, and a strategic focus on expanding further into neighbouring African countries.

Our Story Built on Experience. Driven by Trust.

Move with purpose

About Abnormal Solutions

Founded in 2012 by Franco Bornmann, Abnormal Solutions has grown into one of South Africa's leading specialists in abnormal transport and project logistics for the renewable energy sector.

Our journey began with some of South Africa's first wind farm developments, and has since grown to include more than 75 wind farm projects nationwide. Along the way, we've built strong partnerships with leading international companies, while extending our expertise into specialised logistics for solar, mining, and heavy industries.

In 2022, Madré Batt joined the company as Director, bringing a distinguished 16-year career that spanned Sales Manager to Operations Manager at Absolute Wind. Franco and Madré have worked side by side for more than 15 years on complex wind energy projects, a partnership built on shared expertise and mutual trust that continues to drive the company forward today.

Our experienced team delivers end-to-end project logistics: route surveys, technical planning, and abnormal transport solutions across South Africa and beyond, with successful projects completed in Namibia, Gabon, and Central Africa.

At Abnormal Solutions, we believe our success comes down to three things: technical expertise, personal commitment, and strong relationships. We take ownership of every project, make informed decisions quickly, and stay personally involved through every stage of execution, combining deep industry knowledge with a hands-on approach to deliver practical, reliable solutions that put our clients first.

Our Values

Premium logistics is a standard, not a finish.

The work happens in demanding environments where timing, safety, communication and cargo condition matter. Our values are practical. They shape how decisions are made when the project is under pressure.

Integrity

Clear information, honest constraints and practical recommendations before a movement becomes committed.

Reliability

Project teams need logistics partners who follow through, communicate early and stay accountable under pressure.

Trust

Complex movement depends on confidence between clients, transporters, ports, authorities and site teams.

Safety

Every decision must respect the road, the cargo, the people and the communities affected by abnormal movements.

Control

The goal is not to make the operation louder. It is to make it calmer, clearer and easier to manage.

Experience

Field-tested across renewable energy and industrial movement.

Abnormal Solutions has supported major wind farm logistics and abnormal cargo movements across South Africa and broader African operations. That experience matters because every route, port, province and site introduces a different kind of constraint.

The learning from one project improves the planning on the next — how components are staged, how authorities are engaged, where routes become sensitive and how delivery should be sequenced when the programme is under pressure.

0Major wind farm projects supported through planning, movement and delivery coordination.

0Combined experience in abnormal logistics, project cargo and renewable energy movement.

0Secure Saldanha laydown capacity for wind turbine component staging.

The Operating Standard

The right plan should make the hard parts easier to see.

Abnormal logistics does not become premium because it looks impressive. It becomes premium when the client knows what is happening, why it matters and what the next decision should be.

We make constraints visible early.

A difficult route, tight turn or sensitive access point is easier to solve before cargo arrives, permits are urgent and the programme is already exposed.

We coordinate the people behind the movement.

Ports, transporters, authorities, escorts, security teams and site teams all need to understand the same plan — not only their isolated part of it.

We protect the cargo and the programme.

Component care, dust exposure, staging quality and movement timing are treated as project risks, not afterthoughts.

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