Once a shipment has been organised it’s important to ensure that all deadlines for packing, transport and loading are met so that clients don’t face unplanned delays due to items not being ready when they are required.
During the packing of a recent shipment of 15 containers from Australia to Russia the client discovered the last piece of machinery did not fit into the last container.
To meet the planned schedule Transvoras had less than a week to organise transport for the final item.
Transvoras director Martin Moyano says his team takes pride in being able to solve problems such as this.
Mr Moyano said they had less than a week to organise a flat rack container (pictured), which is generally categorised as special equipment and not often easy to obtain. The extra shipment also required a seperate crate for packing and transport.
Mr Moyano engaged at short notice the services of a marine surveyor to sign off on safety requirements and produce a report for the shipping company, who were also required to approve the additional shipment.
“We also needed an additional road permit, as the crate was over the standard five metres, so we could transport the machinery apart from the original container transport,” he said.
Road permits can take 48 hours or more to obtain and the Transvoras team was pleased to be able to meet the deadline and get the last piece of machinery onto the wharf to ship with the original container cargo.