Project Cargo

Our Project Cargo team often are involved in moving large and heavy items both nationally or internationally, often transportation of large, heavy, high value or a critical (to the project they are intended for) pieces of equipment requires specialist knowledge and handling. A list of some of the items we have moved in the past are locomotives, boats, satellites, military personnel and equipment. In the offshore industry, parts of oil rigs and production platforms are also lifted; some of these are also removed at the end of an installation’s working life. This is something our specialists at Elite Shipping understand very well.

Heavy Machinery

Heavy Machinery

To transport heavy lift items special trucks or trailers (flatbeds) are used, which are especially suitable due to their large loading area and capacity. For air transport special large-volume cargo aircraft like the Antonov An-225 are employed which can move up to 250 tons of freight. On inland waters barges are often used. Transports at sea carry out special heavy lift vessels which often possess won cranes for loading and discharging cargo. Transportation of heavy lift items ranks among the most challenging and complex services in logistics and is handled by Elite Shipping in a timely and efficient manner.

Break Bulk Shipping

Break Bulk Shipping

In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo is a term that covers a great variety of goods that must be loaded individually, and not in inter modal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain. Ships that carry this sort of cargo are often called general cargo ships. The term break bulk derives from the phrase breaking bulk—the extraction of a portion of the cargo of a ship or the beginning of the unloading process from the ship’s holds. These goods may not be in shipping containers. Break Bulk Cargo goods comes in (bags, boxes, crates, drums, barrels). Unit loads of items secured to a pallet or skid are also used.
A break-in-bulk point is a place where goods are transferred from one mode of transport to another, for example the docks where goods transfer from ship to truck.
Break bulk was the most common form of cargo for most of the history of shipping. Since the late 1960s the volume of break bulk cargo has declined dramatically worldwide as containerization has grown. Moving cargo on and off ship in containers is much more efficient, allowing ships to spend less time in port. Break bulk cargo also suffered from greater theft and damage.

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