Port-pair focus

Routings chosen for reliability to your discharge port.

Equipment fit

FCL, LCL, and special gear matched to the cargo—not forced.

Clear milestones

Booking, gate-in, departure, and arrival updates you can plan around.

Overview

We arrange ocean freight that respects maritime realities—carrier selection, consolidations, and documentation that mesh with onward port or vessel delivery requirements.

Ocean freight remains the workhorse for volume, weight, and cost-sensitive maritime cargo—including consolidated spares, project packages, and routine fleet supply where air is unnecessary.

MarineCaddie books with the vessel’s commercial reality in mind: cut-offs, transshipment risk, and whether the cargo must connect to a husbandry or onboard delivery window after discharge.

We help you choose FCL vs LCL vs alternative equipment based on cargo profile, not habit. Documentation and customs partners can sit in the same thread so discharge does not become a second project.

When schedules slip, you hear it with options—not after the container already missed the intended connection.

Ocean reliability is a portfolio of choices: carrier, service string, and whether a cheap transshipment is worth the miss risk. We explain those trade-offs in plain language before you commit.

For fleet supply programmes, repeating the same lane with clean documentation often beats reinventing routing every sailing. We can standardise what should be standard.

What you get

  • FCL and LCL options across major trades
  • Booking, documentation, and sailing updates
  • Transhipment awareness for tight connections
  • Project and break-bulk adjacent workflows
  • Port of discharge coordination for last mile
  • Cost-effective planning without losing control

When to use this service

  • Cargo volume or weight makes air uneconomic
  • Lead time allows a controlled ocean schedule
  • You need FCL/LCL advice tied to a port of discharge
  • Ocean move must connect to local delivery or vessel attendance

What we need from you

  • Commodity, packing type, and approximate cubes/weight
  • Origin and destination ports (or door points)
  • Ready date and any hard delivery deadline
  • Incidental services required (customs, trucking, onboard)

How we deliver

01

Quote

Commodity, ports, and preferred sailing window.

02

Book

Space allocation and SI/BL workflows.

03

Sail

Track vessel and notify of schedule changes.

04

Arrive

Arrange clearance and inland/port delivery.

FAQs

Yes. We select the mode that fits your volume, urgency, and cost targets.

Non-urgent spares and stores often move by ocean with planned vessel delivery.

Sea-plus-road or rail combinations can be designed under our multimodal service.

Yes—LCL is common for smaller spare consignments when timing still fits the vessel plan.

You receive milestone updates and exception alerts; cadence can be tightened for critical project cargo.

Smart Caddies, Smarter Logistics!

Leave the Logistics to Us, Keep Your Fleet Moving.

Tell us the vessel, port, and timeline—we’ll propose the fastest compliant path.

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