Freightplus - Heavy Machinery Shipping Services for the Mining Industry

For over ten years, Freightplus has been moving heavy machinery and equipment around the world. We have the experience to handle heavy and challenging, over-dimensional cargoes, and are continually looking for ways to provide greater value for our customers, seeking solutions to difficult challenges and delivering better quality and value than our competitors do.

Freightplus is one of only a few project forwarders that specialises in the international movement of heavy machinery. In fact, moving heavy machinery across the world is all we do, shipping new and used mining machinery, construction equipment, earthmoving machines, exploration and drilling equipment, and agricultural machinery, every day of every week.

International heavy machinery shipping services

Whether you are shipping a Caterpillar dozer, a Hitachi excavator, a Komatsu dump truck or a Tadano crane, our very experienced crew knows exactly what is required to transport your heavy equipment in the safest and most economical shipping configuration.

Freightplus maintains an extensive technical database with machinery specifications of nearly all major earthmoving, construction and mining plant, and equipment. This means you don't have the hassle of having to provide technical drawings or machinery specs whenever you are shipping machinery internationally.

We provide the following services related to the movement of heavy machinery:

• Pre-purchase machinery assessment
• Trade and payment facilitation (escrow services)
• Analysis and planning of appropriate forwarding solutions
• Preparation of cargo for shipment, including dismantling, packing and quarantine cleaning
• Ex-works solutions, from job-site to port
• Pre-shipment inspections
• Handling and loading solutions
• Roll-on / roll-off, lift-on / lift-off and containerised shipping solutions
• Urgent, general and oversized air cargo solutions
• Door-to-door mechanical back-up
• Shipment tracking and reporting
• Export and import customs compliance, including duty classification and tariff consultancy
• Destination quarantine compliance
• Fully comprehensive door-to-door service
• International freight for heavy machinery

Mining machinery pre-shipment services

As well as shipping heavy machinery around the world, Freightplus provides a number of ancillary services. At origin, before shipment, our comprehensive range of services includes:

• Pre-purchase, technical machinery appraisal - covering a wide range of used heavy equipment
• Dismantling and reassembly of heavy machinery
• Steam cleaning to Australian, New Zealand and US quarantine standards for used machinery
• Mechanical support prior to shipment
• Supervision of ship loading
• Full range of customs services, including documentation and formalities for export
• Preparation of carnets
• Chamber of Commerce representation
• Payment facilitation between buyer and seller (escrow services)
• SGS inspections
• Marine insurance
• Marine surveys
• Comprehensive service ex job-site

Post-shipment destination services for mining machinery

There is much more to transporting massive machines from site to site than booking space on a ship. As well as capably shipping heavy machinery between any two ports in the world, Freightplus provides comprehensive support services. When your cargo arrives at its destination port, Freightplus can help with a number of ancillary services, including:

• Coordination of necessary permits and licenses
• Payment facilitation between buyer and seller
• Post-shipment condition appraisal - covering a wide range of used heavy equipment
• Dismantling and reassembly of heavy machinery
• Steam cleaning to Australian, New Zealand and US quarantine standards for used machinery
• Mechanical support during all stages of shipment
• Crane services, with doggers and riggers
• Container devanning
• Fumigation
• Full range of customs services for import
• Full range of quarantine compliance services
• Processing of carnets
• Customs tariff concession applications
• Duty drawbacks
• Duty audits
• Greenhouse gases compliance and reporting
• Marine insurance claims
• Comprehensive job-site delivery
• Pre-sale refurbishment

Project management for heavy machinery shipments

If your project involves moving anything large from one place to another, Freightplus will make light work of it. Our very experienced crew is well versed in the discipline of planning, organising and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives, managing diverse and comprehensive solutions from planning to fruition.

Whether it's relocating an entire mine camp, disassembling and reassembling a manufacturing plant or mobilising heavy equipment for new construction projects or gas and oil projects, we can offer free, no-obligation advice.