Over-Dimensional Cargo Handling

ODC Cargo Handling involves the transportation of oversized, overweight, or irregularly shaped cargo that cannot be moved using standard logistics methods. These shipments require specialized vehicles, lifting equipment, engineering checks, and meticulous planning to ensure safe, compliant, and smooth movement from origin to destination.

Over-Dimensional Cargo (ODC) represents some of the most complex and challenging freight movements in the logistics industry. These cargo types exceed the standard size or weight limits of regular transport vehicles, making traditional methods unsuitable. Handling ODC requires advanced technical expertise, route feasibility studies, road surveys, permission from authorities, escort arrangements, and strict safety compliance.

Transporting ODC cargo often involves heavy-duty trailers, multi-axle hydraulic trucks, cranes, and custom-built platforms capable of carrying extremely large and heavy machinery. From manufacturing plants to construction sites, power plants, engineering projects, and industrial installations, ODC logistics ensures crucial equipment reaches its destination safely.

Each movement is executed with precision—right from planning dimensions, assessing load distribution, securing cargo, arranging port handling, supervising loading/unloading, and monitoring the journey throughout. The goal is to deliver oversized cargo without delays, damage.

Types of ODC Cargo

1. Heavy Machinery

  • Excavators
  • Dozers
  • Cranes
  • Industrial machinery

2. Power & Energy Equipment

  • Transformers
  • Turbine components
  • Generators
  • Windmill towers & blades

3. Construction & Engineering Structures

  • Steel beams
  • Prefabricated building parts
  • Bridge sections
  • Industrial modules

4. Industrial & Manufacturing Units

  • Boilers
  • Pressure vessels
  • Large tanks
  • Plant equipment

5. Vehicles & Special Equipment

  • Large mining trucks
  • Military equipment
  • Specialized industrial vehicles

Important Features of ODC Cargo Handling

 

  • Multi-axle hydraulic trailers
  • Low bed and flatbed trailers
  • Modular heavy-lift transporters
  • Cranes & lifting systems
  • Custom-built supports & frames

 

  • Road feasibility assessment
  • Bridge/load capacity evaluation
  • Height clearance checks
  • Escort vehicle arrangements
  • Traffic management planning

 

  • Special permits from transport authorities
  • Police escort approvals
  • Port authority coordination
  • Documentation & compliance handling
  • Safe loading/unloading procedures
  • Cargo securing & lashing techniques
  • Weight distribution planning
  • Weather monitoring
  • On-road emergency support
  • End-to-end supervision
  • Real-time tracking
  • Coordination with manufacturers, ports & transport teams
  • Customized solutions for complex industries