FLS Projects Ship Break Bulk on Container Vessel
When a client of two major civil construction projects on the US West Coast approached FLS, requesting them to move two time-critical cargoes for these projects, a perfect solution was found: shipping the cargo as break bulk on a container vessel.
Time and costs were crucial for their customer, so instead of chartering a multipurpose break bulk vessel on a last-in/ first-out direct sailing, the team opted for a container service.
Structural beams of up to 30 meters in lengths and weighing up to 40 tons presented big challenges for the loading and unloading operations on an 11,000 -TEU container vessel. But working in close coordination with the carrier and terminals and crane operators, a solution of using a combination of mobile and gantry cranes was found.
The benefits of using a container vessel for break bulk as opposed to a regular break bulk vessel were the better transit times and the more reliable and regular shipping schedules. Also, commercially smaller lots will not attract the sometimes-high inducement freight rates of break bulk vessels.
Due to the benefits above, shipping break bulk on a container vessel is becoming more common and FLS have the expertise to provide well-fitting solutions for both time and budgetary restraints.
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Since October of 2012 the XLProjects Network (XLP) has taken the independent project forwarding and chartering industry by a storm. Some of the best known project logistics companies in the world have been joining XLProjects and making business with one another.
XLProjects members by and large are proud of their relationship to our project logistics network because we allow only qualified members yet we get them all over the world. The management of XLProjects as well have been involved in this market on both sides of the project cargo business; from the networking standpoint as well as the project logistics field itself.
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