Service 08
Trans-Shipment Cargo
Over twenty years routing cargo through Dubai when the direct service is full, too slow or too expensive.
Overview
What this covers
Dubai is considered one of the major multimodal and trans-shipment hubs in the Middle East, with the infrastructure to match. Breaking a journey here, clearing it, and sending it on by whichever mode is actually available is often faster and cheaper than waiting for a direct service that does not suit the cargo.
The three routings below cover most of what comes to us, and they are priced side by side against the direct option so the trade-off between cost and transit stays yours to make.
What is included
- Experience
- Over twenty years of trans-shipment expertise through Dubai.
- Hub
- Dubai: a major multimodal and trans-shipment hub in the Middle East.
- Clearance
- Cargo received, customs cleared and re-forwarded from one hub.
- Consolidation
- Air cargo consolidated into containers for onward ocean freight via Jebel Ali Port.
- Cost
- Sea/air routing through Dubai is cheaper than direct airfreight and faster than ocean.
The three routings
When the direct service won't work.
Each of these breaks the journey in Dubai, clears it, and sends it on by whichever mode is actually available.
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01Sea / Air
Peak-season capacity
When airspace is tight during peak season out of the Indian subcontinent and the Far East, cargo comes to Dubai by ocean freight. We clear it here and re-forward it by air — cheaper than flying it the whole way, and considerably faster than sailing it.
Far East · Indian subcontinent OriginOcean freightDubai Cleared & re-forwardedAir freightEurope · USA · Africa Destination -
02Air / Air
No direct service
For urgent consignments where the origin airport simply has no space, or where no direct service exists at all. Partners route the cargo to us in Dubai and we place it onto the onward sector on the first available lift.
Origin airport · no space OriginAir freightDubai Cleared & re-forwardedAir freightEurope · N. America · Africa Destination -
03Air / Sea
Missed vessel
When a shipper misses the scheduled vessel, the cargo is airlifted into Dubai instead. We receive it, clear customs, consolidate it into containers and send it onward by ocean freight through Jebel Ali Port.
Shipper misses the vessel OriginAir freightDubai Cleared & re-forwardedOcean freightEurope · USA · beyond Destination
More services
The rest of what we move.
Freight, clearance and storage quoted and tracked by the same team.
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01Sea Freight
Full container load, less than container load and non-containerised cargo, moved door to door, port to port or any combination of the two.
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02Air Freight
A dedicated air freight division handling shipments through Dubai and the wider U.A.E., for cargo that has to be there.
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03Road Freight
Safe, cost-effective and time-bound overland transport across the U.A.E. and the GCC, on our own trucking fleet.
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04Customs Clearance
Smooth and easy customs clearance at U.A.E. airports and seaports, so that consignments release on time.
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05Warehousing & Logistics
High-level professional warehousing and storage, for as long or as short a period as the cargo needs it.
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06DGR & Perishable Cargo
Moving restricted and perishable cargo is a tedious process, and it is unforgiving of shortcuts.
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07Car Import & Export
A trusted partner for all your car export and import needs, with a comprehensive range of services to make vehicle shipping hassle-free.
