Examples Break Bulk shipment

After months-long preparations, the 60 and 42 tons heavy wooden crates were loaded onto two trucks in Salzburg and transported to the port of Hamburg, from where they were sent on their journey to China on board the ”Galaxy Chipolbrok”.

The challenge was the unusual measures of the load: 16 x 3.2 x 3.1 and 10 x 3.7 x 3.45 metres. Thus, the transport in a truck convoy was only permitted at night between 10 pm and 4 am, causing it to last a total of three days. After more than a month at sea, the heavy cargo arrived at its destination port in China.

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