Service
Transportation & Haulage
Nigerian roads, from the port gate to the site gate.
Haulage across Nigeria, from containerised movements out of Apapa and Onne to escorted heavy loads into the Delta. The last leg is the one clients most often underestimate and the one that most often goes wrong — poor roads, weight restrictions, checkpoints and site access are all real constraints, not footnotes.
We plan for them, and we tell you about them before you commit to a delivery date rather than afterwards.
An escorted load is planned backwards from the site gate. The permit, the escort and the movement window all follow from the route, the route follows from the load, so we fix the load’s dimensions first and work everything else against them.
Where a site cannot take the vehicle the load needs, we tell you before the movement is booked and not on the day the truck arrives.
What drives the cost
- cargo weight and dimensions
- mode and routing
- whether the cargo is regulated
- handling and storage at destination
- duty and levies, which are set by Customs and not by us
What drives the timeline
- whether documentation is in place before the cargo ships
- Customs examination selection
- port congestion at the time of arrival
- onward road access to the delivery site
What's included
- Containerised haulage, 20ft and 40ft
- Flatbed and lowbed movements
- Escorted and permitted loads
- Site delivery and set-down
Questions
- Do you deliver nationwide?
- Yes, from all three offices.
Heavy and outsized loads on Nigerian roads
Port gate to site gate: a package boiler rigged, loaded and run out on laterite; a process vessel sharing a carriageway with ordinary traffic; structural steel loaded at the terminal. The last leg is the one clients most often underestimate.
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A boiler rigged for loading. -
Loaded on the lowbed. -
The last miles are rarely tarmac. Route survey is not a formality. -
On the public road. Sharing a carriageway with ordinary traffic is the part of a project move that has to be planned hardest. -
The convoy under way between the port and site. -
Verge clearance checked continuously as the load moves. -
Structural steel loaded for the road leg. -
Loaded and ready to leave the terminal.
