The world oil and gas sector runs on a platform of accuracy, time, and mammoth, huge, and intricate machinery. Whether it is giant drilling rigs and huge driller valves, or high-tech turbines and generators, transferring this vital equipment between manufacturer and oft-distant project location presents a logistical problem like none other. Any delay in transportation or an accident can cause disastrous project losses and expenses.
It is in this that expert knowledge of logistics comes not only in handy, but in the very essence. This supply chain is supported by two key services: complete Oil & Gas equipment Machinery transportation from door to door and specialized services that are offered by the supply chain, i.e., break bulk shipping services. The combination of these services is the main factor in making your project successful.
The Gold Standard for Machinery Transportation
The idea of Oil & Gas equipment Machinery transportation from door to door is what it is, and its implementation is not that straightforward. It is a one-stop, turnkey solution where a logistics company controls the complete moving life of your equipment, including the time it goes out of the supplier’s plant up to the time it arrives safely at its ultimate destination, typically an oil field or a processing plant.
This is the holistic method that will not require you to liaise with various vendors, trucking companies, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and ocean carriers. Rather, you get one point of contact in charge of the whole chain. The benefits are profound:
- Less Risk: Source-to-Destination monitoring lowers handling and the risk of loss or damage.
- Time Efficiency: There is efficient coordination among the various transport modes. This ensures that there is no unnecessary delay at the handover points.
- Cost Predictability: You will be given a detailed quote upfront without any surprises of cost and budget overruns.
- Problem-Solving: Sometimes, it is inevitable, and a problem might be encountered through bad weather, customs hold-ups, or an experienced provider can solve the problem on short notice.
This service will offer unmatched peace of mind to a project manager as their is able to focus on the main aspects of their operation instead of being preoccupied with the logistics of the supply chain.
The Break Bulk Shipping Services Niche
When we are speaking of the transportation of oil and gas equipment, we seldom refer to the objects that can be packed into the regular ISO containers. This is where specialised break bulk shipping services are required.
Break-bulk shipping may be considered as a way of carrying cargo that is too large, heavy, and has irregular shapes to be containerized. Rather, there is a one-to-one correspondence of items of machinery lifted onto the ship and off special vessels through cranes and placed into the hold in very careful stowing and securing.
In the energy industry, there is no break bulk as an alternative, in many cases, break bulk is the only possible solution. This technique is ideally appropriate to:
- Drill Pipes and Casings
- Large Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers
- Sections of Offshore Platforms
- Transformers and Generators
- Complete Refinery Modules
Break bulk shipping services are an expert area of operation that requires careful planning. It also demands engineering quality expertise to compute the center of gravity, create custom cradles and seafastening packages, and to have the cargo stowed in a manner that safeguards the ship and equipment through the frequently stormy ocean transit.
The Strong Synergy of Coupling Break Bulk with Door-to-Door Logistics
When these two services are perfectly merged, then that will be the real magic. The ocean leg is not all that a world-class logistics company can do, but we integrate the break-bulk shipment into an entire door-to-door delivery.
The following is an example of how a standard integrated operation can proceed:
- Origin Handling: It starts at the manufacturer’s door. The machinery is loaded by arranging heavy-lift trucks and special trailers that carry it to the loading port.
- Port Expertise: In the origin port, the logistics team will handle all the documentation, customs export protocols, as well as the decisive transfer of the cargo from land to sea. Here, their expertise in break bulk comes into the limelight, as the cargo is well packed to go on its journey to the ocean.
- Ocean Transport: The provider reserves the ideal vessel space, tracks the shipment with its journey, and communicates its location and arrival time.
- Destination and Final Delivery: At the destination port, the team clears the cargo at the import customs, loads the cargo on de-stuffing and heavy-lift offloading, and organizes the final overland mode to the project site gate, which completes the true door-to-door cycle.
Selecting the Right Partner for Your Important Shipments.
There is no room to compromise on the shipment of multi-million dollar oil and gas equipment. Thus, the most important decision that you will make is to choose a logistics partner that has demonstrated a good experience in both the area of transportation of Oil & Gas equipment Machinery transportation from door to door concept, and the area of break bulk shipping services.
An example of this specialization is a partner such as KGE Global. We have profound industry expertise, and it does not involve relocating cargo, we design logistics. We have a feel of application specific to the oil and gas industry and have the network and expertise to handle complex heavy-lift and project cargo transfers worldwide. Their combined strategy makes sure that all the chain links of the supply chain, including the first link to the last one, are controlled with accuracy and attention.
The currency of the high-stakes world of energy project logistics is the right expertise. With a full door-to-door service including professional break-bulk shipping, you secure your investment, your schedule, and keep your project on track.
