BREAK BULK
NEWS Logistics analyzes your cargo to recommend the most efficient shipping options. Breakbulk is often the safest alternative for transporting large machines and equipment. Shipping oversized cargo in a container adds the following steps to the process: disassembly, packing, unpacking, and reassembly. This same out-of-gauge machine could be moved in a more cost and time-effective manner as one piece of breakbulk cargo.
We work with you to plan the most effective conveyance for your equipment, destination, and schedule. Doing ocean transportation with oversized cargo units by breakbulk is often the only mode of ocean transport for High & Heavy, Abnormal, and OOG cargo.
IN GAUGE CARGO
- The dimensions of the cargo are smaller than or equal to those of the flat rack or open top container (i.e., it requires special equipment but does not displace additional slots on the vessel).
- Examples of In Gauge shipments: machinery or large trees that can be lowered into an open top container.
OUT OF GAUGE CARGO
- The dimensions of the cargo exceed the flat rack or open top container by length, width or height, but can still be unitized in containers.
- Examples of Out of Gauge shipments: propellers, flanges or trucks.
BREAK BULK CARGO
- Vastly exceeds the size and/or weight of a standard container and is therefore handled as non-unitized cargo and normally placed on a bed of flat racks with a large number of lashing points.
- Examples of common Break Bulk shipments: yachts, masts, industrial machines or train carriages.