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CONVOY LOGISTICS PROVIDERS recently completed delivery of a large Amine Regeneration tower from Ontario to Newfoundland. This involved extensive research to meet client delivery time lines and transportation requirements. Through selection of a vessel deck trailer that reduced the travel height to only 4.85 meters and eliminating the need and extra cost for road utilities, sea transport using ro-ro (roll on- roll off) with a large deck barge was selected for the transport from the port of Hamilton to Come By Chance and discharge at a private dock in Newfoundland thus achieving best shipping- and cost savings. After a short transit time of only 8 days, the tower was successfully unloaded and delivered to the client’s refinery where it will replace an existing tower.

As part of a power plant project, Convoy Logistics Providers arranged for vessel charter services and discharge of 2 vessel charters carrying 32 Heat Recovery Steam Generator modules with weights of 116 MT to 176 MT destined for a power plant in Ontario, Canada. Arrangements included changing port of discharge to allow loading of modules directly to rail cars, engineering services to reduce the combined centre of gravity and setting up rail cars in advance by having brackets welded to allow precise placement of the 13 ft wide units. Delivery from the port to the power plant was made with dedicated special train service to north of Toronto where modules were transferred from rail to road using gantry cranes. Additional oversized insulation panels were delivered over the road and CLP continued to service this project successfully for 1.5 years with other project cargo deliveries. CLP achieved substantial savings by researching alternate port options and

Convoy Logistics Providers recently completed delivery of a used PP/HDPE plant to the port of Sorel, Quebec. Total volume moved was 3,200 cbm of break bulk items and 30 x 40’ Shipper owned containers. The scope of service covered the receipt of the dismantled items, skidding, saddling, packing for export, crating of instrumentation and control items, loading of piping and structural units into containers, applying preservation to stainless steel vessels and piping as well as arranging for delivery to the port. Convoy Logistics worked closely with the dismantling company to receive and record the over 10,000 bar coded items, provided site management and oversight of the subcontracted export packaging, arranging for crane loading and delivery to the port using specialized heavy haul equipment. The work was completed in 3 months. Final destination of cargo was the Black Sea port

CONVOY LOGISTICS PROVIDERS recently completed a combination rail / road movement from Ontario to the Blue Sky Project in Bingham Maine of the crated synchronized condenser motor and top hat. With a weight of 249,500 lbs and width and height just over 12 feet, the synchronized condenser was loaded to a QTTX heavy duty railcar in Peterborough Ontario and was railed to a siding in Milo ME, 50 miles east of the final site in Bingham ME. At the Milo rail siding the crated motor was trans-loaded via jack and slide to a hydraulic trailer. Jacking was accomplished by utilizing four 150 ton capacity jacks, and was placed onto a turn table, allowing the cargo to be rotated into its required delivery position transport to site. The crated motor was delivered to the final site location in Bingham ME in December 2015, prior to the completion of the building construction. It was then placed to stools and tarped while building construction was completed and while waiting for installation.

While under contract to provide logistics services to one of its major clients attended the delivery and loading of 2 very large 63 MT electric motors at Toronto Lester Pearson airport. Final destination was Lagos, Nigeria where the refurbished motors were flown to be used in a major Chevron oil production installation. The motors were loaded on an Antonov 124 airplane using a 300 ton crane that placed the motors on a ramp that the plane operator keeps with the aircraft to meet any loading requirements. A track installed on the ramp allowed the motors to be winched inside the aircraft where they were lashed with multiple chains. Special lashing rings were incorporated into the motors’ skid design

Convoy Logistics Providers was awarded the project logistics contact for the movement of a 100,000 bpd dismantled refinery from Canada to Pakistan over a 3 year period of time. CLP mobilized a project team to site and arranged for all intra site transport services to receive cargo as it was dismantled, established a lay down yard where cargo was received and inventoried for eventual export. CLP provided all site ground services of export packaging. Cargo such as large columns, pressure vessels, heaters, stacks, drums and storage tanks were placed on saddles or other cribbing and /or custom made packaging. When the columns were too large to transport by road, a special train service was arranged on heavy duty rail cars to meet delivery requirement at the port of loading. In addition to this, shipper owned containers were purchased and loaded with plant controls, valves, pipe spools, structural steel and other dismantled cargo suitable to be loaded into containers. CLP worked closely with the site dismantlers and engineers to arrive at most optimal shipping parcels throughout the project

Convoy Logistics Providers was contracted to arrange for local site services in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and provide door to door transportation- and shipping services for a used Methanol plant to West Virginia covering in excess of 6000 cbm and 81 x 40’ shipper owned containers. The largest cargo units were exchangers, reactors and a cold box each between 50-86 tons as well as a 1600 cbm heater-reformer unit dismantled into smaller shipping units. Convoy Logistics worked closely with the USA based client to receive and record the over 16,000 bar coded items, provide site management services in Brazil and oversight of the subcontracted export packaging, export- and import customs clearance services, 2 vessel part charters and local road delivery to final site in the USA. Convoy Logistics Providers is specialized in the niche market of plant relocations. Amongst other projects it moved a used 100,000 cbm oil refinery and several other plants from Canada and the USA to world wide overseas destinations.

CONVOY LOGISTICS PROVIDERS recently completed delivery of two part charter shipments covering a ship-loader with 13,459 cbm and 695,054 kgs from Shanghai, China to Vancouver. The largest item covered the bridge and shuttle unit measuring over 64 meters in length and weighing 246,000 kgs. Discharge was made directly from under hook onto 5 barges that were then transferred to final erection site across Vancouver port. Under the leadership of Dona Asciak, CEO of Convoy Logistics Providers and Bryan Sciberras, Operations Supervisor, both worked on the project for almost a year to cover all aspects and to negotiate favourable terms for the client. Both attended the arrival of the last vessel to document its safe transfer to barge. Convoy Logistics Providers is a project oriented logistics provider located in Toronto, Canada adding value by providing custom designed solutions for major global companies and their transportation needs including relocation of entire plants on a world wide scale.

CBM Calculator is a free utility to calculate consignment's weight and volume. It helps user to calculate cubic meters (CBM) when shipping goods. User can get quick and easy calculation of how many product(s) will fit in a shipping container? Read More

The Incoterms or International Commercial Terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to international commercial law. They are widely used in international commercial transactions or procurement processes and their use is encouraged by trade councils, courts and international lawyers.[1] A series of three-letter trade terms related to common contractual sales practices, the Incoterms rules are intended primarily to clearly communicate the tasks, costs, and risks associated with the global or international transportation and delivery of goods. Incoterms inform sales contracts defining respective obligations, costs, and risks involved in the delivery of goods from the seller to the buyer, but they do not themselves conclude a contract, determine the price payable, currency or credit terms, govern contract law or define where title to goods transfers. The Incoterms rules are accepted by governments, legal authorities, and practitioners worldwide for the interpretation of most commonly used terms in international trade. They are intended to reduce or remove altogether uncertainties arising from differing interpretation of the rules in different countries. As such they are regularly incorporated into sales contracts[2] worldwide. "Incoterms" is a registered trademark of the ICC. The first work published by the ICC on international trade terms was issued in 1923, with the first edition known as Incoterms published in 1936. The Incoterms rules were amended in 1953,[3] 1967, 1976, 1980, 1990, and 2000, with the eighth version— Incoterms 2010 [4] — having been published on January 1, 2011. The ICC has begun consultations on a new revision of Incoterms, to be called Incoterms 2020.

The metric system originated in France in 1799 following the French Revolution although decimal units had been used in many other countries and cultures previously. Although there have been many different measurements and the definitions of the units have been revised, the official system of measurements of most countries is the modern form of the metric system which is known as the "International System of Units". Since other systems of measurement are still used around the world, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, this site aims to help people convert units of measurement with Metric Converter and Metric Conversion Table and to better understand alternative measurements that they are unfamiliar with. The measurement units are categorized into types (such as Temperature Conversion, Weight Conversion and so on) seen on the right-hand side which then lead to a series of metric conversion calculators.

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