Project transports encompass all transport undertakings that go beyond a single trip: plant relocations, cadenced construction-site supply, multimodal chains of sea, air and land freight, or heavy-cargo items requiring permits. Speed Logistics plans, coordinates and steers such projects as your central contact – from the feasibility check through route and permit planning to the last partial delivery at the assembly site.
The decisive advantage lies in the bundling: instead of coordinating shipping line, crane company, carrier and customs agents individually, our dispatch team takes over the complete control of all parties – personally reachable around the clock. The only limitation you should plan for: project transports need lead time, depending on scope several weeks to months.
When is a project transport the right solution?
Typical use cases are machine and plant engineering, energy and infrastructure projects as well as plant relocations. The hallmarks of a project transport are several interdependent shipments, various modes of transport and many parties on the shipper and recipient side. As soon as deadlines, crane positions, permits and customs procedures have to mesh, a classic single booking is no longer enough – then it takes project management with overall responsibility that recognises dependencies, plans buffers and catches delays at one point before they hit the overall project.
Scope of services: from sea-air to heavy cargo
- Multimodal route planning: combination of road, sea and air freight (sea-air) depending on deadline and cost target
- Heavy-cargo and oversized items: low-loaders, escort vehicles and permit coordination per federal state and transit country
- Multi-stakeholder coordination: alignment with plant engineers, site management, crane companies and authorities
- Customs clearance included: export, transit and import for non-EU destinations such as Türkiye, the Maghreb, the Gulf states, West Africa or Central Asia
- Partial and follow-up deliveries: direct runs from the sprinter van to the 40-t articulated truck for urgent project components
Typical sectors and goods
Project logistics from Speed Logistics is deployed wherever capital goods are moved: tooling and packaging machines, presses and complete production lines in machine engineering, transformers and switchgear in power engineering, construction-site equipment for infrastructure projects or entire production lines in plant relocations. Recurring project traffic also belongs here – for example the cadenced supply of a major construction site over several months. For each type of goods we define packaging, handling and securing requirements and decide which items run as heavy cargo, which as standard freight and which as an urgent direct run.
Process and project management
At the start stands the analysis of your packing list: dimensions, weights, deadline windows and loading/unloading conditions. From this we develop a route and time concept, check permit requirements and calculate a fixed-price offer – you receive the first assessment within a few hours. During execution one fixed dispatcher steers all trades, reports milestones proactively and, in case of deviations, immediately organises alternatives. So your assembly schedule remains the measure of all things, not the timetable of individual carriers.
Permits, customs and non-EU countries
For cross-border project transports we take care of export accompanying documents, transit procedures and import handling in the destination country – on request door to door from EXW to DDP. For oversized and heavy-cargo items we coordinate the permits in every transit country; the lead times for this feed into the project plan from the outset. Talk to us early: the sooner the packing-piece data is available, the more robust deadline and budget become – and the more route and cost options remain open.