The Booking Is Not the Hard Part
Oversized and Heavy Cargo Handling
Booking a vessel for an outsized item is straightforward compared with getting the item onto it. Something that weighs sixty tonnes has to be lifted, carried on roads with height and weight limits, brought into a port and set down accurately - each step needing equipment, permits and someone who has done it before. This is that side of the job, separate from the breakbulk booking itself.
What Handling Covers
The Physical Work
Everything between the item standing where it is and the item secured on the vessel.
- Route survey for height, width and weight limits
- Permits and escorts for abnormal loads
- Crane and heavy lift arrangement
- Loading and securing onto transport
- Quayside handling and positioning
- Setting down and installation support
Something Heavy to Move?
Send the weight, the dimensions and both addresses
Get Handling Support Call +971 4 239 7107What Goes Wrong With Heavy Cargo
Heavy lift problems are almost never discovered gradually. They are discovered on the day, with equipment and people already on site.
A route that does not work
A bridge, a gantry or a roundabout that the load cannot pass. Surveying the route first is cheaper than discovering it with a loaded trailer.
Site access
The delivery point cannot take a long vehicle, or has no hardstanding for a crane. This is checked before the day, not on it.
No lifting points
An item with nowhere safe to sling from cannot be lifted safely at all. Identifying them is part of the planning.
Permits not in place
Abnormal load movements need approval, and above certain dimensions escorts. Arranged in advance rather than negotiated at the roadside.
Insurance and method statements
Heavy lifts are usually the point at which an insurer or a site wants a written method statement. Producing one is straightforward if the route survey and lifting plan already exist, and awkward if they do not.
Where It Applies
Not Only at the Port
Heavy handling comes up wherever something large has to move, not only on export.
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Export consignments
Items moved to the quay and loaded, alongside the breakbulk booking.
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Imports and site delivery
Arriving cargo lifted off, transported and set down where it is needed.
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Domestic relocations
Plant moved between UAE sites without a sea leg at all - see heavy equipment transport.
Why Cannata
One Contractor, Not Three
Heavy lift work usually needs a crane company, a haulier and a permit agent. Coordinating them is the job, and it is the part that slips.
Lifting arranged by us
Cranes and heavy handling organised as part of the movement rather than booked separately by you.
Our own heavy transport
Low-beds and flatbeds from our own fleet, so the deck quoted is the deck that arrives.
Route checked first
Height, weight and access surveyed before the day, which is when an abnormal load either works or does not.
Rate Request
Get a price for this shipment
Give us the route and the cargo and we will come back with a rate, usually within one working day.
Our FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What customers ask about heavy lift handling.
