Logistics

Our partner company Bergé has experience in the maritime and logistics business since its creation in 1870, Rockford Bergé provides specialized services for multimodal transportation and logistics for oversize and heavy components. Rockford Bergé will coordinate all kinds of transport means such as MPP and bulk cargo vessels, river barges, stevedoring, cranes, trucks and wagons, offering a door-to-door service according to our client’s needs.

Transportation planning
Lay-down yards/component storage
Global logistics coordination
Multi-modal logistics capabilities

Working with first-class owners and haulage companies all over the world, we can assist the industry in every need, from any point of origin to any destination. This, along with a professional and straightforward staff prepared to give the proper answer to potential logistic problems, provides our customers with a tailor-made solution to their needs.

We have experience moving windmill components to any part of the world, to countries such as Korea, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, China and India.

Logged more than 4,000,000 Km of special transport in 2009
Obtained more than 10,000 transit and special conveyance permits
Logged more than 1,000 long haul escorted conveyances and more than 3,000 short hauls
27 MM of tons of cargo moved per year
1,500 turbines transported/year
100,000 T.E.U’s per year
800,000 linear meters of ro-ro cargo
164 vessels chartered in 2009

Our full range of services include:

Assistance in custom and fiscal issues (VAT recovery in third countries)
Road survey; technical surveys issuance
Supercargo; loading and discharging surveys
Loading at clients premises
Precarriage; heavy oversized transport
Handling at ports of origin
Lashing, securing and welding
Sea freight
Unlashing, unsecuring and unwelding
Handling at ports of destination
Oncarriage ; heavy oversized transport
Discharge at receiver’s premises

In addition to the different transportation phases we also provide full storage services, specialized for windmill components due to their particular characteristics and maintenance requirements.