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Dimerco takes a dynamic approach to oversize freight project

DIMERCO has demonstrated its flexibility and creative thinking to pull off a major freight project transporting outsized cargo for a leading utility provider based in the Middle East.

Dimerco used its connections to minimise freight size and decrease the total cost of logistics to deliver shipments of pipe spools, destined for the Water Security Mega Reservoirs Project, achieving a nine per cent cost saving on ocean freight.

The first step was sub-contracting with a packing company to solve the issue of boxing up pipe spools of differing sizes into 159 wooden cases with a total weight of 760,000 kilogrammes and size of 4,300 cubic metres.

The cargo was then secured in the containers by a specialist lashing and tally company and delivered to the container yard. Having negotiated space guarantee with empty space supplement on 40-foot Super Rack (SR) containers, which are larger and scarcer than 40-foot Flat Rack (FR) containers, Dimerco split the cargo between two shipping lines with different targeted schedules in order to meet the customer's budgets.

Once loaded, the vessels followed a route from South Korea to the Middle East. At every stage, the carrier's status and schedule had to be minutely monitored to ensure success for the end customer.

Executing this highly complex cargo project relied heavily on Dimerco's expertise, long term-relationships with carriers and extensive planning to achieve the aim of fewer containers filled to maximum capacity by layering between six and seven pipe spools in each of the packing cases.

All logistics were carefully mapped taking account of the location of the warehouses and terminals ensuring their close proximity to the trucking carriers.

The end result was the delivery of the project on time and within budget and a happy customer, said Dimerco Express (Korea) Corp ocean freight director Eric Roh.

"Our mission is to achieve results for our customers using our professionalism, teamwork and flexibility to respond to and solve any arising issues," said Mr Roh.

"Our considerable experience in logistics planning enabled us to opt for a container carrier rather than a bulk handling vessel as the former has a more regular schedule and guarantees to deliver the consignment on time," he said.

"As well as being keen negotiators and securing optimum freight costs, we were also able to make additional savings by selecting 40-foot SR over 40-foot FR. We always look to improve our services and are fully aware of the growth of the cross-border freight train route but know that for shipments to Middle East, the container ship option is still the best," he said.

Successfully handling one more significant project, Dimerco has again proved its vision to "be the most competitive global transportation and logistics service provider, integrator and consultant."