Land transport and base support
Road, rail and multimodal movement, and running the site at the far end
Defence cargo rarely fails at the loading point. It fails at a border, in a weighbridge queue, or at a bridge that will not carry the axle load. The route decides whether the schedule survives contact with the map.
We plan the route and the customs regime as one problem. Where a deployment needs a site rather than a delivery, we run the site: accommodation, catering, water, power and waste.
What this covers, in full
Transport
- Road, rail and multimodal movement of defence cargo
- Convoy coordination
- Abnormal and heavy load movement
Customs
- Customs clearance
- ATA carnets and temporary importation for exercises
- Sanctions screening across the transport chain
Storage and maintenance
- Warehousing and forward stock holding
- Vehicle maintenance and workshop support
Base and camp
- Camp erection and site preparation
- Catering, laundry and accommodation
- Water, power generation and waste management
Exercises
- Host nation support
- Support to multinational exercises
How the work runs, in three steps
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Survey the route before quoting it
Axle limits, tunnel and bridge restrictions, escort requirements and the condition of the final stretch are checked on the ground. The final stretch is usually what decides the vehicle.
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Choose the customs regime first
Temporary importation, carnet or permanent entry. The wrong regime is slow and expensive to correct once the cargo is already inside the country.
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Position stock forward
Where the movement plan leaves no slack, materiel is placed near the point of use in advance rather than moved on the day. Storage costs less than a missed exercise.
Across every area
What comes with the work, whatever the operation is
These are not a separate service line and they are not charged as one.
- One point of contact
- A named coordinator holds the file across ports, countries and service lines, and does not hand it on halfway through.
- Screening and counterparty checks
- Suppliers and subcontractors are checked against sanctions lists before use, and their ownership is rechecked when it changes.
- Anti-bribery applied outward
- The policy binds our suppliers as well as us. Where a payment is expected that we will not make, the client hears about it.
- Tenders and framework agreements
- Support to tender submissions, and management of the framework once it is in place, including its reporting obligations.
- Cost control and consolidated billing
- Costs broken down by port call, mission or deployment. One invoice, with every underlying document available behind it.
- Insurance and risk
- Insurance coordination including war risk, and risk assessment for personnel movements into difficult jurisdictions.
Tell us what the operation needs, and where
Ports, airfields, dates, volumes. Whatever is fixed so far is enough to start from.