What are Project Cargo Solutions?

Project cargo solutions involve handling the transportation of heavy and oversized items, often associated with large industrial, infrastructure, or construction projects. This type of transport isn’t typical; it requires meticulous planning and extra attention to detail. Moving big machines, large parts, and heavy materials safely and on time means navigating challenges like special packaging, permits, and coordinating different types of transport. That’s where Gruber Logistics excels. With years of experience, we ensure everything is handled smoothly from start to finish. Every project is unique, which is why we create customized solutions tailored to each client’s needs, ensuring your cargo arrives safely, on time, and hassle-free. The term “project cargo solutions” (also reported as “Project cargo” or “Project Logistics”) reflects the personalized nature of these shipments, where every detail is planned specifically for your project, ensuring all the logistics come together seamlessly.

Gruber Logistics’ Experience

Gruber Logistics has a long history as a trusted freight forwarder in the project cargo solutions sector, with a strong focus on customer needs. Recently, the company has further enhanced its competencies through the acquisition of the specialized company Züst & Bachmeier Project GmbH.

Gruber Logistics had already built a solid reputation for managing the logistics of heavy and complex loads. With the acquisition of Züst & Bachmeier GmbH, it has strengthened its position even further by combining their over 100 years of expertise in freight forwarding and heavy load shipment management with its own. This expansion allows Gruber Logistics to handle even more ambitious projects on a global scale, offering comprehensive and customized logistical solutions.

Today, Gruber Logistics is a key player in the project cargo solutions sector, with an expanded network of partners worldwide and a proven ability to manage complex projects efficiently, meeting deadlines and ensuring the highest safety standards.

Global Presence

Gruber Logistics boasts a global presence, thanks to a well-established network of partners and collaborators. This worldwide network enables the management of transport in every part of the globe, ensuring that goods reach their destinations safely and on time. Gruber Logistics’ approach is characterized by a strong customer focus, offering tailored solutions that take into account the specific needs of each project. Gruber Logistics’ experience in project cargo solutions, combined with collaboration with local partners, allows for confidently tackling global market challenges. Understanding local cultural dynamics and regulations provides an additional competitive advantage, ensuring compliance and adherence to deadlines.

The Nuremberg Terminal

Gruber Logistics’ Nuremberg terminal is a strategic facility located at the inland port Nuremberg, designed to handle heavy and oversized loads. With over 12,000 square meters of space and a loading capacity of up to 30 tons per square meter, the terminal offers a range of advanced services for project cargo solutions.

There are three traffic options available to get to the tri-modal heavy-good-logistics-centre: by water, by road or by rail. The access road can accept up to 22.5 ton axle load. The roll on/roll off mooring area is built to hold up to 1.200 tons unit weight. The permanent availability of a strand jack system with an ultimate lifting capacity of 600 tons secures save handling of every heavy load. Lifting and loading equipment of various types are at our immediate disposal i.e. traversing strokes, lifting and spreader beams, sling gears and load distribution material. For secure and efficient loading and unloading.

Gruber Logistics is preparing to further enhance its operations, offering clients increasingly innovative and tailored logistical solutions.

Individual Transport Concepts in Project Logistics

With years of experience, we can handle the transport logistic of complex equipment and machinery based on an Individual Transport Concept. Even though over time we have developed strong competencies in working for the plant and engineering industry, our colossal experience allows us to realize every possible challenge in international project logistics.

Our work always begins well before the actual transport. With well-thought-out and intelligent planning and taking into account ongoing foreign affairs all eventualities are covered. Profit from our expert knowledge in logistics, freight and general transport. The actual transport will only begin if theory and execution are perfectly matched. For a safe and secure transport of your equipment and machinery.

Adhering to your schedule is a matter of course for us as an experienced forwarding company. Timely delivery is a question of planning, organisation and coordination. Monitoring and documentation make project logistics comprehensible. For a delivery of plants, components and machinery on schedule within the agreed scope of services.

Particularly including the processing of complicated large and heavy-goods transport up to the building site in reception. This includes also lifting large components onto foundations already in situ. Our specialists are supervising at every transfer point. For transport solutions that are safe.