Maritime Transportation And Shipping Talk

What is marine transport logistics? It is the planning and performance of sending a shipment from point a to point b in time and at a reasonable cost. Complete logistic service is when the whole process is undertaken.

He wanted to have Ship Spares In Transit sent by container ship and was looking for a marine transport logistic company that could handle this kind of shipments. These are some of the demands that is put forward when the question becomes getting the parts to the ship in time. This is another way that ship spares in transit are shipped not using couriers or other air transport.
A few years back I was approached by a ship owner about getting this large anchor from overseas to reach the vessel. The ship had lost its anchor off the coast of Australia and needed a replacement put onboard and installed as soon as possible. The first thing we did was to look at voyage plans for the next little while to decide where we would send the anchor giving us enough time to do the transport by ship. Once this was done we had to make sure that we would be able to install the anchor at the location where the ship was heading. Getting the anchor loaded on deck of a ship so that we could remove it easy on arrival was not a problem. A great cooperation from ships officers made the whole thing easy for us. Both loading and unloading went without a hitch. We needed this speedy unloading as we had determined that the port we were going to use for the installation would be a close call time wise for getting the anchor unloaded, cleared customs and hooked up in time. This type of installation needed the Class (Lloyds or Veritas) on site to put their stamp on the new certificate after installation. Installation took a couple of hours and after the sealing of the anchor shackle with led, Class put their punch stamp on it and all was green light.
By doing all the preparation prior to shipping and being able to move on time the ship was not having any delays and possible time off hire from their charter.
The logistics work that went into this operation was done in such a way that there were minimal chances for delays to vessel operations.