NVOCC Shipment Planning: A Practical Booking Checklist NVOCC shipment planning starts with a clear cargo brief and an agreed service scope. Before asking for a booking, identify what will move, where it will move and who is responsible for each handover. A rate alone does not tell you whether the proposed container, routing or documentation […]
Introduction: The Evolution of Ocean Freight Transport Modes Breakbulk vs Container Shipping is a key decision for project logistics managers moving structural steel, petrochemical refinery towers, power turbines, locomotives or mining excavators. Before containerization became widespread in the 1950s, much general cargo was handled as breakbulk: individually packed boxes, barrels, crates and bundles manually loaded […]
What Is Project Cargo? A Guide to Heavy-Lift & Out-of-Gauge Shipping Standard cargo fits neatly into 20ft or 40ft shipping containers. But what about a 120-ton industrial turbine, an oversized refinery vessel, prefabricated bridge segments, or a full-size construction crane? That’s the domain of project cargo (or project logistics) — one of the more complex […]
