Clarke Global recently managed a project to ship a Campion Bowrider recreational boat from Pattersons Lake in Victoria via Melbourne to Papua New Guinea. The out-of-guage (OOG) project required the vessel to be heat-wrapped by the supplier at Pattersons Lake to protect it during shipment. Clarkes arranged for a pre-inspection of the boat to ensure […]
Precision is important, especially when calculating dimensions for roll on/roll off shipments such as a client’s wheel loader shipment to Dubai. The booked measurements for the vehicle were almost 18m3 less than the measurements calculated by the ships surveyor on delivery to the vessel at Port Kembla, so last minute adjustments were made to ensure […]
Former world champion Hayden Virtue is currently competing in the 2014 Sailing Canoe World Championships with some help from the team at Clarke Global. Clarke Global facilitated the shipping of Hayden’s canoe from his home base in Wodonga to the current World Championships in San Francisco, which run until September 16th. “My goal is to […]
Importing luxury vehicles and caravans into Australia can be challenging and recent first time importer Ben Gray of Canberra says it pays to be well organised. “I’m generally a well organised person, but it pays to organise things weeks ahead. I started organising it six weeks ahead and it made everything run much smoother, there […]
Once a shipment has been organised it’s important to ensure that all deadlines for packing, transport and loading are met so that clients don’t face unplanned delays due to items not being ready when they are required. During the packing of a recent shipment of 15 containers from Australia to Russia the client discovered the […]
Some jobs may seem impossible, but they’re the kind of challenges the Clarke Global Logistics team really enjoy. This client had a seemingly impossible task. A 40ft container needed to be collected from Fremantle Wharf on Easter Saturday. The job included unpacking the container, repacking and organising transport to move it some 1700 kilometres to Port […]
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