Break Bulk & Out of Gauge (OOG) cargo
APM Terminals Valencia has a specialist team and equipment ready to load and unload your Break Bulk or Out-of-Gauge Cargo. We can help our OOG and Break Bulk Cargo customers to achieve a reduction in their transport and storage costs due to our yard capacity.
Why choose APM Terminals Valencia?
- Specialized equipment and experienced stevedoring teams
- Wide connection network
- Book direct for better value
- We’ll help find the most cost-effective solution
- Warehousing and storage offered for OOG and Break Bulk
Break Bulk Cargo
Break Bulk significantly exceeds the size and/or weight of a standard container and is therefore handled as non-unitized cargo and normally placed on a bed of flat racks with many lashing points. Break Bulk cargo includes things like yachts, masts, industrial machines or train carriages. We offer a tailored solution for your Break Bulk requirements.
Out Of Gage cargo requirements
With Out of Gauge cargo, the dimensions of the cargo exceed the flat rack or open top container by length, width or height, but a container can still be used. Out of Gauge cargo includes things like propellers, flanges or trucks.
- Over height: < 2700 mm.
- Over width: < 1000 mm each side (left & right) of unit.
Other restrictions
- Flat rack units with wall ends down shall have corner castings free for use of OOG equipment.
- If upper corners casting is not free for lifting, slings must be used handle the unit. In that case, unit must be stowed on deck 1st tier, otherwise can’t be handled.
- The Payload of unit cannot be exceeded else cargo will be handled as break bulk cargo.
- Maximum payload is 40 tones regardless of load bearing equipment.
- OOG units with end walls down, can only be handled during daytime hours between 08:00 and 18:00 hours.
- OOG units can’t be weighed in the terminal.