Oilfield, power and renewable equipment from U.S. plants and yards — including oversized pieces that need a lifting plan, not a standard container booking.
A pump in a 20-foot box is ocean freight. A transformer, a blade, a skid that exceeds the envelope, or a string of equipment that has to arrive in installation order is project cargo. We quote the first as a container and the second as a plan: dimensions, lifting points, permits and the port that can actually receive it.
Houston is often the right ocean gateway for Gulf and Middle East energy lanes; Newark and Savannah cover Atlantic work. We arrange the ocean or air leg, the heavy-haul road moves, and the export filing. We do not run the mine, the pad or the wind farm — site handling belongs to your contractor, and we coordinate up to the agreed handover.
Drilling, production and refining gear — skids, pipe, valves, pumps — including pieces that travel with a hazardous class and need IMO documentation.
Wind, solar and storage equipment. Blades, towers and transformers are planned as out-of-gauge; panels and inverters usually as FCL.
Machines and parts destined for remote sites. The hard part is usually the last inland leg, not the ocean crossing.
Transformers, generators, switchgear and plant equipment that are heavy, expensive and intolerant of a dropped booking.
Most energy files are ocean plus a heavy road leg. Air is for the critical spare, not the transformer.
Length, width, height, weight, lifting points and whether it is DG. A photo of the nameplate is useful; a guess at “about a container” is not.
We pick a gateway the piece can enter and leave, then a sailing or charter that accepts it. The inland route is checked for permits before the ocean is confirmed.
Crating or seafastening to the method the carrier approved. Export declaration filed in-house. No cargo is delivered to a terminal on a verbal “it should fit”.
Destination agent, trucker and site contact named on the file. If the site is not ready, we say so early rather than accruing demurrage in silence.
Oil and gas equipment, renewable components, mining machines, transformers, generators and the spares that keep a site running. Bulk commodities as a cargo owner are not our product.
Yes, once we have dimensions, weight and lifting points. We book flat-rack, open-top, breakbulk or charter — we do not force an oversize piece into a dry van and hope.
We arrange the inland leg with a local agent and a trucker who can actually reach the site. We need the site constraints (crane, hours, road limits) before we confirm delivery, not after the vessel has sailed.
Classified, packed and offered only to carriers that accept that UN number. If the SDS is missing, there is no booking. That is slower than a verbal “it is fine” and is why the cargo is allowed to load.
Piece list with dimensions and weight, origin, destination and the date the site can receive it. Oversized photos help more than adjectives.