Units Weighing 21 Tons a Piece Transported From Trinidad in Bespoke Crates
KTC Logistics has overseen the door-to-door delivery of a shipment of industrial packaging printers from the Caribbean island of Trinidad to Guatemala.
The machines, which measured 10.5 meters long and weighed 21 tons a piece, were first disassembled and loaded into custom built wooden crates to protect against damage during transit then hauled from their manufacturing site to the Port of Point Lisas, one of Trinidad’s most important marine hubs.
The units were then shipped to Guatemala’s breakbulk-handling Port of Barrios. Two and three-axle lowboy trailers and 40-foot platforms were deployed for the overland journey to the customer’s printing facility located in an industrial zone in Guatemala City, where heavy-duty forklifts and 80-ton capacity cranes were on stand-by to discharge the cargo.
“We did the crating of all the OOG cargo ‘in-house’ as the machinery needed to be protected against physical and moisture damage,” Marc Mahle, CEO at KTC Logistics, told Breakbulk. “We had to deliver the cargo on time as our client had to match timelines with their final customer’s contract terms. We also had to contend with the famous carnival in Trinidad, which ‘paralyzed’ the whole country during the move.”
KTC Logistics is based in Guatemala and specializes in the transport of breakbulk and project cargo. Its sister company KTC Heavy Lift is headquartered in neighboring Honduras.
The KTC companies recently launched an office and warehouse facility in Miami.
Breakbulk Americas 2024 is taking place on 15-17 October in Houston, Texas.
