CARGO SERVICES

Project cargo management

Extensive experience in handling complex, heavy-lift and high-value project cargo. Our operations team manages the end-to-end logistics with precision, supported by strong partnerships with breakbulk operators, from the supplier's yard to the island jetty.

SCOPE

What is included

Every item below is handled by us. Anything not listed, we will tell you who does it and introduce you.

  • Feasibility studies and route surveys
  • Multimodal transport recommendations
  • Liaison with public works and the authorities, including police escort arrangements
  • Presentation of proposals and alternatives, with time schedule estimates
  • Expertise for heavy-lift and oversized cargo
  • Packing arrangements
  • Sea freight and air freight shipments
  • Break bulk and heavy-lift shipments
  • Charter and part charter services
  • Customs formalities
  • Supervision of loading and transport operations
  • Landing craft and sea haulage from Malé to the site
  • Offloading and installation at the jobsite, with labour and equipment
  • Warehousing and CFS consolidation and deconsolidation
  • Tracking and tracing, KPI and data quality control, and status reporting
Landing craft alongside at Malé carrying three articulated dump trucks, with a mobile crane on the quay
PROCESS

How the service runs

Timings are indicative and confirmed at booking.

STAGE 01

Understand cargo & site

STAGE 02

Develop a movement plan

STAGE 03

Book origin handling & vessel

STAGE 04

Prepare discharge & access

STAGE 05

Deliver to the programme

BEFORE YOU BOOK

What to agree before booking

01

Scope

Send the origin, destination, cargo or vessel particulars and required dates. The quotation sets out what the service covers.

02

Handovers

Each leg ends with a handover: at origin, at the port, at the airport or at the jetty. We book the documents, handling and the next leg for each one.

03

Contacts

Give us the person who makes decisions about the cargo and the person who receives it. Questions go to them directly.