How to build a one of a kind station

A crew of twelve people already left for Antarctica at the end of October in order to prepare the base camp and make the drilling (in the rock) for the anchoring of the station. They should be ready with the anchoring by the time we arrive. The building site isn’t on the coastline like most of the stations, it is 200km in land. The site is on a ridge in a mountain area of the continent (we needed solid rock to encore the station…).
As all the containers will be on the coast, snow tractors will bring them back during 6 weeks (if it all goes well), the maximum speed of those tractors being 12km/h… The containers have been made and numbered in a way that we first receive the first elements, so that the building crew can start at the very beginning and doesn’t have to wait for containers.

When the containers arrive, the palettes inside them will be directly pulled out, then they will go back on the sledges and wait a year for the boat on the coast.
Here's a test to pull out a 4t palette out of a container:



If it all goes well, the station should be ready around the end of February. Then it will be time for everyone to go home.

If: there are too many storms, one of the tractors brakes down, one of the cranes doesn’t work, a container or even one element is missing etc; we can’t go on with the project. That scares me a little; this time, organisation and communication is absolutely crucial!