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Project Logistics
Managing Project Logistics: Special Delivery
Logistics companies handling special projects need persistence and ingenuity—and have to expect the unexpected.
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Project Logistics: Going the Distance
When logistics professionals are tasked with a special project, no matter how enormous, no matter how infeasible, they’re expected to go the extra mile.
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Special Deliveries: Moving the Gargantuan, the Precious, and the Peculiar
When it comes to transporting the oversized, the awkward, the exotic, and the endangered, the secret to success is planning, planning, and more planning.
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Project Logistics: Handling the Big Challenges
Experienced and knowledgeable service providers make short work of moving freight with extreme requirements.
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Project Logistics: Moving the Big, the Heavy, and the Wide
Project cargo logistics has always been a gritty aspect of the supply chain. But increasingly, shippers and service providers are becoming more sophisticated in how they plan and partner for success when transporting oversized and heavyweight shipments.
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Logistics Lets the Games Begin
Before the high-profile athletes and rabid fans arrive at a major professional sports event, superstar logisticians and planners perform their own feats of greatness to ensure the big game goes off without a hitch.
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Transporting Wind Turbines: An Oversized Challenge
Faced with moving enormous wind turbines hundreds of miles, energy giant enXco made waves—and saved on freight costs—with an innovative barge transport strategy.
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How to Ensure Successful Transportation of Your Project Cargo
When it comes to transporting over-dimensional or heavy-lift cargo—whether it’s equipment bound for Alberta oil fields or turbine components for an Iowa wind farm—transportation and logistics demands are infinitely greater because they are unique to each situation. The complexity of moving unwieldy cargo as quickly and economically as possible requires collaborative partnership, attention to detail, […]
Read MoreThe Shipper’s Guide to Project Logistics
Handling oversized cargo requires a special touch. Here’s how to find a project logistics provider with the know-how to get the job done right.
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Oversized Shipments: Good to Grow
Although container shipping remains the dominant form of ocean transport, breakbulk shipping, in which heavyweight freight is transported without being packed in containers, has seen significant growth. Non-container cargo covers a variety of shipments, ranging from oversized tires for earth-moving equipment to complete electrical power plants. One reason breakbulk shipping grew despite the economic downturn, […]
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