International Freight Forwarder for Drilling Equipment

Freight Forwarding for Drilling Equipment, Import and Export

Getting drilling equipment to a rig site is expensive and time-sensitive, and the gear is heavy, oversized, and high-value. Who handles the steamship lines, the heavy haul, and the customs paperwork when a rig package moves into or out of the US? A forwarder that moves this equipment every day, not a general carrier learning it on your shipment.

Texas International Freight is a project logistics forwarder of drilling equipment, handling international shipment and forwarding both to and from the United States.

A Forwarder Built Around Oilfield Cargo

Most of our business is moving drilling equipment, so we know the cargo. Drawworks, rotary tables, top drives, blowout preventers, mud pumps, drill pipe, and derrick and mast sections each ship differently, most as out-of-gauge or breakbulk pieces rather than in a standard box. We match the method to the unit and keep the whole rig package on one plan.

Agents in the Manufacturing Countries

Drilling equipment comes from suppliers around the world, so we keep agents in the countries that build it. That includes Germany, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, China, India, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US, to name a few. Local agents at the origin keep the export clean and the handoff to the ocean carrier on schedule.

The Methods That Move Drilling Equipment

As an oil and gas logistics forwarder in Houston, we know the most economical way to move a rig package, whether it imports into or exports from the US. Our relationships with the steamship lines and the heavy haulers let us offer premium service to drilling equipment manufacturers while keeping the cost down. Oversized units ride breakbulk or flat rack, wheeled gear rolls on and off, smaller crated items go in containers, and a stalled-project part flies. The piece sets the mode.

Why a Specialist Forwarder

What sets us apart is that we understand the oil and gas industry. Companies that forward drilling equipment daily can command rates from the carriers and airlines and put enough people and know-how on a move to get it done quickly. A drilling equipment forwarder has as little business in just-in-time big-box logistics as a JIT forwarder has in shipping a drawworks. The specialization is the point.

Working With Texas International Freight

From Houston, we book the vessel and aircraft space, prepare the documentation, manage the customs, and arrange the heavy haul, on one desk from origin to rig. The same team runs the broader oil and gas machinery and drill rig hauling behind a project. Tell us the equipment and the route, import or export, and we map the move.