Why choose our logistics services?
As a specialist in factory relocation, equipment moving and machinery removal, we are heavy machinery transportation experts with the experience and industrial logistics services that you need to ensure your move goes to plan.
We know that any industrial logistics project is a huge investment; both financially and in terms of your resources, your commercial strategy and your operational risk. That’s why we provide an industrial logistics service tailored to your business and industrial logistics requirements. We work with you to understand your industrial logistics needs and provide the right vehicles and mix of industrial logistics services to meet your heavy machinery transportation goals.
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Our industrial logistics service includes:
- Machine dismantling.
- Machinery removal.
- Updating your asset register.
- Machine packing.
- Loading machinery to vehicles.
- Provision of vehicles for industrial logistics.
- Industrial logistics across the UK and throughout Europe.
- All paperwork for industrial logistics, including multiple languages for logistics services across borders where required.
- Arranging shipping as an integral part of wider logistics services.
- Offloading your assets at the point of destination.
- Storage
- Installation of machinery at the point of destination.
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An Industrial Logistics service tailored to meet your needs
Whether your industrial logistics project involves heavy machinery transportation for a single piece of equipment, removal of a complete production line, or an entire factory relocation, our industrial logistics expertise means you can be confident our logistics service will respond to your heavy machinery transportation needs with no hidden costs or unnecessary delays.
We have invested in an in-house fleet of commercial vehicles and lifting equipment for industrial logistics, which means you can rely on us to be accountable for providing the right vehicles; on time, every time, along with the right industrial logistics know-how. And, because we also have a wide range of lifting equipment within our in-house fleet too, you can be certain that we will offer you a joined-up and integrated logistics service across all our locations.
Our logistics service team will help you plot a critical path for all your industrial logistics needs, aligned to the wider requirements of your project. Working collaboratively with both your team and any third parties involved, we provide an industrial logistics process that enables you to plan your operational priorities and avoid any business interruption risk. Our industrial logistics team will ensure you always receive an efficient logistics service during your factory relocation or machinery moving project.
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Loading machinery to transport for your industrial logistics project
One of the many benefits of working with AIS Vanguard and our industrial logistics service is the joined-up and specialist approach to industrial logistics we can offer across your entire factory relocation or machinery removal project. Our industrial logistics support provides much more than a vehicle and a driver: we have the expertise to handle the whole industrial logistics process, providing an end-to-end industrial logistics service including:
- Mechanical and electrical engineering and electrical isolations.
- Disconnecting your machines.
- Dismantling your machines.
- Removing your machines from your building.
- Updating your asset register.
- Packing your machines for transport.
- Using our varied in-house fleet of lifting equipment to load your machinery to transport.
- Organising any support vehicles or heavy machinery transportation permits you may need.
Our health and safety expertise, project planning, and lifting equipment combine to allow us to load your machinery to transport as part of our industrial logistics services, with a clear focus on protecting your assets and your people. Our logistics service experts can optimise the load on our vehicles to make heavy machinery transportation as safe and efficient as possible. They can also take a full inventory of all machines and equipment loaded to transport throughout your industrial logistics project, ensuring that you have a detailed record of which assets are on which vehicle as part of our specialist industrial logistics service. This can enhance efficiency throughout the industrial logistics process and reduce business interruption risk when your consignment arrives at its destination.
Transporting your machines and equipment as part of an industrial logistics project
Whether your industrial logistics project involves a single machine or a full factory relocation, the goal of our logistics service is to ensure your consignments reach their destination as quickly and safely as possible. We have the industrial logistics service capabilities to deliver on that goal. Your industrial logistics requirement may be for local heavy machinery transportation, but we can also help with national and international industrial logistics, and our team understands the paperwork involved. From our national operational hubs across the UK, we’re proud to offer industrial logistics as an individual service, or as part of a full turnkey solution.
Our industrial logistics service is backed by our heavy machinery transportation resources. Our in-house commercial vehicle fleet means we can offer you a reliable industrial logistics service, drawing upon our own commercial vehicles and our trusted, vetted supply chain. We can help with support and security escort vehicles too, providing all the logistics services you need to help your industrial logistics project run smoothly.
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Your industrial logistics offloading requirements
As part of our turnkey industrial logistics service, we can also deploy our fleet of lifting equipment at the point of destination for your factory relocation or machinery moving project. Our industrial logistics experts can ensure we have trained personnel and lifting equipment on the ground at the right time, wherever your machinery needs offloading.
Our industrial logistics services include offloading your machinery and equipment safely and in the correct sequence, enabling rapid installation.
Storage of your machinery and equipment as part of your industrial logistics project
For some industrial logistics services projects, there may be a pause between machinery removal or decommissioning of an old site, and installation at a new site. Where this is the case, our industrial logistics experts can arrange storage for you and carry out all the heavy lifting associated with offloading your assets from transport and placing them into a storage facility. When the time is right for the assets to be sold or redeployed, our industrial logistics experts will be on hand to deliver the logistics service you need for the next steps too.
Our wholly owned fleet for industrial logistics services
We have a wide-ranging, wholly-owned fleet of vehicles and lifting equipment to deliver our industrial logistics services and it is growing all the time.
Our capabilities include:
- Light commercial vehicles, including fully-equipped ‘tackle vans’, pick-up trucks and personnel vans.
- HGV vehicles for heavy machinery transportation, including tractor units, HIAB trucks flat trailers and step-frame trailers.
- Forklift trucks between 1.5t and 7t capacity.
- Eight large-scale warehouse facilities.
We’re also investing in the sustainability of our industrial logistics fleet, with 65% of our commercial vehicles now compliant with the Euro6 environmental standard. Our commercial vehicle fleet will be 100% Euro6 compliant by April 2023. We also limit all our commercial vehicles to 62mph/100kph to reduce carbon emissions. Our investment in our industrial logistics fleet includes investment in our lifting equipment fleet, and all our powered plant is now electric or LPG.
To find out more about how we could help you with your industrial logistics requirements, contact us.
More Industrial Services:
Small Projects
Machinery Removals
Machinery Relocation
Machinery Installation
factory Relocation
Complex Machine Lifting
Lift & Shift
Mechanical & Electrical
Asset Realisation
Asset Rationalisation
Crane Installation
Hydraulic Systems
Jacking & Skating
Robot Installation
Scrap Machinery Removal
Frequently Asked Questions
Our logistics service is a comprehensive end-to-end solution. It includes mechanical and electrical engineering for machine disconnection, dismantling, and packing, followed by loading onto our specialised in-house fleet. We manage the entire transportation process, including all necessary permits, border paperwork for international moves, offloading at the destination, and final machinery installation.
Yes. We provide comprehensive industrial logistics services across the UK and throughout Europe, delivered via AIS Eurelo. Our group handles all the complex requirements of cross-border moves, including multi-language documentation and full customs compliance.
We manage every stage of the shipping process as an integral part of our wider turnkey solutions, ensuring your assets reach their international destination without delay. By leveraging our shared resources and wholly owned fleet, we provide a seamless logistics experience with consistent service and safety standards across every border.
We operate a wholly-owned, modern fleet designed for heavy industrial moves. This includes HGV tractor units, HIAB trucks, flat trailers, and step-frame trailers. Our lifting capabilities include forklifts from 1.5t to 7t capacity and specialised “tackle vans.” We are committed to sustainability, with a fleet that is 100% Euro6 compliant and powered plant that is exclusively electric or LPG.