Project Cargo & Heavy Lift Logistics

Project cargo is what happens when the shipment will not fit in a container and cannot be treated as freight in the ordinary sense — a transformer, a pressure vessel, a piece of plant, a complete production line. These moves are engineering exercises before they are transport exercises, and the planning is where they are won or lost.

We plan and execute over-dimensional and heavy-lift movements end to end: surveying the route, studying the lifts, arranging the permits and escorts, and matching each leg to the right equipment — flat-rack and open-top containers, breakbulk on conventional vessels, roll-on/roll-off, or specialised road trailers for the inland legs. The aim is a move where every constraint has been found on paper before the cargo is on the road.

The plan is the product

With ordinary freight, you book and it moves. With project cargo, the booking is the last thing that happens. First the cargo is measured and weighed exactly, because a trailer’s route is decided by centimetres and a vessel’s stowage by tonnes. Then the route is surveyed — not on a map, but physically, for the bridge that will not take the axle load and the roundabout the trailer cannot get around. Then the lifts are studied, the permits applied for, and only then is the move scheduled.

Skip any of that and the failure is expensive and public: a load that cannot pass a bridge with the cargo already on it, a crane that turns out to be under-rated, a permit that was not in hand when the escort arrived. We would rather spend the time on the plan.

One coordinator across many parties

A project move pulls in more parties than any other — the shipper, the crane operator, the road-permit authorities, the police escort, the port, the vessel, the receiver. The single most valuable thing we provide is that one person holds all of it, so the crane and the trailer and the permit and the sailing line up on the same day rather than each being someone else’s problem.