Project Cargo and Project Logistics

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Project cargo and project logistics

Project cargo is the stream of equipment, much of it heavy or out of gauge, that arrives to build a plant. Project logistics is everything around those moves: port discharge, interim storage, the dispatch sequence, unloading and lifting on site. If pieces do not reach site in the order the installation schedule needs, even a well-executed move can hold the project up.

We run project cargo with engineering support. Planning and analysis before the job is awarded are there to identify what could go wrong during the operation and to have the answer ready.

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Port to site: managing the hand-overs

A piece of project cargo changes hands several times before it is installed: ship to quay, quay to truck, truck to laydown yard, back onto a truck and finally onto the crane hook. Every hand-over is a point where time is lost or damage happens, so in project logistics the transitions need planning as much as the moves themselves.

Because transport, cranes, storage and engineering come from one team, most of these hand-overs sit inside a single operating plan.

• Heavy and out-of-gauge haulage→
• Heavy lifting→
• Project cargo storage→

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Route and feasibility come first

On any project the largest and heaviest pieces set the route. Which road they take from port to site, on which vehicle configuration and with which road modifications needs to be settled before the first shipment, or the problem tends to surface with the first heavy piece.

Our road survey team studies the route and reports the modifications it needs; on request we carry them out with our partners.

• Route surveys and feasibility→