Critical mass translates into freight savings, tailor-made scheduling and unrivalled flexibility. We serve more ports and handle more cargo bookings than other drybulk operators, combine part cargoes, consolidate routes and reduce ballast legs. Our customers have all experienced our reliable service, on-time performance and flexibility.
We offer you total cargo care, reducing claims to a minimum. 98 years of experience in handling all bulk commodities including iron ore, coal, minerals, grains, agriproducts, bauxite, alumina, cement, aggregates, scrap, concentrates, as well as sensitive unitized cargoes such as windmill towers and blades, pipes, steel and forest products, have provided us with the expertise and tools to avoid costly mistakes.
We get your cargo to its destination in good shape and in an environmentally friendly manner.
We also excel in safely combining part cargoes in our various parcel trades, resulting in lower freight rates on long-haul trades.
Our cargo clients include raw materials producers, agricultural traders, importers, exporters, steel mills, power companies and other industrial end-users. They have experienced and benefitted from our on-time performance and flexibility. Our approach is to develop a comprehensive understanding of each client’s business. That way, we can deliver bespoke solutions. Your cargo is our business.
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We transport a wide range of drybulk commodities including: ores, coal, petcoke, grains, agricultural products, bauxite, alumina, cement, aggregates, forest products, scrap, concentrates, fertilizers and many more. We can also reduce bulk freight costs to and from restricted ports, with a customized transshipment system.
OLDENDORFF CARRIERS is also a leading seaborne carrier of steel cargoes, where we focus on various kinds of steel products, aluminium as bars or ingots, other industrial metals, pipes, construction material as well as windmill towers and blades.
Apart from carrying full cargoes of bulk, we also excel in combining various unitised and bulk cargoes in our parcel trades. We may carry 5 or 10 or more parcels of agricultural products, minerals, concentrates, etc. on one voyage, which enables us to give you a lower freight rate, especially on long-haul trades.
320 million tons p.a.
Typically split as follows (million tons p.a.):
Iron ore, iron ore pellets, iron ore fines, chrome ore, nickel ore, pig iron, chromium, chrome fines, manganese ore
Steam coal, metallurgical coal, petcoke, calcinated petcoke, coke, anthracite, charcoal
Soya beans, soya bean meal, soya bean pellets, heavy grains soya and sorghum (HSS), wheat, rye, barley, malt barley, corn, bulk sugar, sugar in bags, canola, maize, oats, peas, rice in bulk, rice in bags, sunflower seeds, tapioca, fishmeal, cotton in bales, cottonseed, lupins, oil cakes, rapeseed, sorghum, other grains and agricultural products
Copper/lead/zinc concentrate, bentonite, borates, talc, sodium in bags, ilmenite, magnetite, ferro chrome, ferro manganese, ferro silicon, manganese ore, silicon manganese, rutile, silicon carbide, silica sand, slag, copper slag, spodumine, ferro alloys, kaolin, mill scale, perlyte, uloxite, vermiculite, zircon, barytes, pumice
Bauxite, alumina, aluminium fluoride
Cement, cement clinker, cement in bags, aggregates, gravel, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, clay, cobbles, cobblestones, quicklime, sand, garnet sand, granite, grit
Fertilisers, DAP, MAP, TSP, potash, sulphur, ammonium nitrate, phosrock, phosphate, sulphate, soda ash, urea
Hot-rolled coils/plates/sheets, wire rods in coils, billets, slabs, rebars, beams, plates, profiles, rails, blooms, cold-rolled coils, debars, round bars, gratings, hollow section, galvanised steel, stainless steel, tin plates, aluminium ingots/bars/wire, zinc ingots, lead ingots, copper wire/anodes/cathodes/blister, etc.
Logs, pulpwood logs, woodpulp, wood pellets, woodchips, chipboard, lumber, plywood
Windmill towers, windmill blades, pipes, construction material, tanks, project cargo, etc.
Scrap, shredded scrap
Entrust your ocean transportation to OLDENDORFF CARRIERS. Your requirements may be complex: different cargo types and sizes, irregular shipment schedules as well as diverse load ports and global destinations. Instead of doing it all in-house, you can delegate the entire logistics services to us.
We have extensive experience in satisfying the transportation needs of our industrial clients, who don’t want to burden themselves with overheads and additional staff, while retaining full control. We can also hedge your exposure with fixed rate contracts or agree market-related index contracts with a matrix of port pairs. Our offshore transshipment solutions may enable you to use bigger ships and save freight cost.
Let us analyse your needs and provide you with a comprehensive logistics concept. We will assign our best expert to become your primary point of contact. This person will work hard to understand more about your cargo and your trade, so we can serve you better and make you happy. This has worked for hundreds of our clients and we are confident that we can make it work for you.
At OLDENDORFF CARRIERS, we always operate in an extraordinarily open, transparent and equal way. That extends to our interaction with potential clients, suppliers, brokers and authorities, and everyone who works with us. So we’ll be delighted to talk to you
if you wish to get in touch.
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