Your shipment is stuck in the country of origin, with complexities you’re unfamiliar with. The clock is ticking. Requirements at the destination are mounting. Costs are skyrocketing. You need to get it out of there. But it’s challenging to source an appropriate vessel out of that port. Even if you get one, the exorbitant cost for a larger vessel inducement call, based on the relatively smaller consignment of cargo, is foreboding. You’ve spent months trying to find the right partner to help you. Ask us and we’ll take care of the impossible.

That’s what we did for GE Gas Power. An ambitious project that involved chartering a 1725 TEU container vessel to make an inducement call at Kakinada Port, India and Colombo, Sri Lanka to carry the high-value gas turbine components to Houston, USA.

The cargo was stored in challenging topographic conditions. Between the storage and Kakinada Port Transportation 55 kms away, lay inaccessible terrain and narrow roads. We mobilized an impressive ground transportation, mapping out feasible routes. We then had to fumigate the entire cargo to make it seaworthy.

On arriving at Colombo Port, the containers were devanned and reconsolidated with a different optimized configuration into another shipping line’s containers at the Freeport in Colombo, for their onward journey to Houston.

The formidable task required complex preliminary planning with proven expertise and active supervision. The team’s organizational skills and knowledge in managing door-to-door operations, unique handling requirements at origin, during transit and transshipment Freeport requirements, allowed them to mitigate risk factors related to customs clearance, route validation, transportation and delivery. What’s more is that across the project, we minimized the harmful effect on the environment. Even the fumigation was undertaken in controlled environments,

A project that had them perplexed for 6 months.
A project that would have cost them millions.
We got it done in 45 days and saved them close to 40% on freight costs.
That’s why, at EFL, there is no ask too big.