Capability

Project and heavy-lift logistics in Singapore

Transport of oversized, overweight, and high-value cargo for infrastructure, energy, and industrial projects. Work covers route surveys, lifting and rigging, specialised trailers, and vessel chartering for out-of-gauge and breakbulk consignments. Buyers select on engineering capability, equipment fleet, and project references.

Project logistics is the heavy-engineering end of the industry — the heavy-lift, out-of-gauge and oversized-cargo specialists who move reactors, transformers, turbine modules, drilling equipment and prefabricated plant that no container can hold. It is a rigging-and-heavy-transport discipline, not a freight discipline, and Singapore's demand base is heavily industrial: Jurong Island petrochemicals, the marine and offshore yards, semiconductor fabs, data-centre builds and public infrastructure. The scale is real — Jurong Port's project-cargo hub handles modules weighing up to 1,000 tonnes each (and has handled a 1,200-tonne turret riser), and the national rail network alone is being expanded toward ~360 km, a multi-year pipeline of oversized project cargo. This is a capability where homegrown Singapore-HQ specialists lead, because the work rewards owned heavy assets, rigging engineering and long relationships with the Jurong Island and marine-yard operators.

The buyer reads a project-logistics firm on owned heavy assets (self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT), hydraulic gantries, crawler and mobile cranes, low-beds, barges and tugs); lift capacity (single-lift tonnage and combined rigging capability); transport-and-lifting engineering (skidding, jacking, load-out, sea-fastening, ballistic and stability analysis); and sector track record (oil & gas, petrochemical, marine/offshore, data centre, infrastructure). The homegrown field is anchored by SGX-listed Tiong Woon, the only publicly-listed heavy-lift crane company in Southeast Asia, with a fleet of 579 cranes (to 2,200-tonne single-lift capacity), 359 haulage assets and its own tugs and barges; Bok Seng, a genuine heavy-lift/project-cargo specialist with SPMTs, gantries and marine assets; and heavy-transport houses Kim Soon Lee (400+ vehicles across four depots) and Hup Hin. Poh Tiong Choon and CWT carry heavy-transport capacity within broader logistics groups. The record should distinguish true heavy-lift/rigging specialists from container-only hauliers, and it deliberately leans homegrown — the global heavy-lift majors (Mammoet, Fagioli, deugro) are foreign-HQ and out of the Index's frame.

Also known as: heavy-lift logistics · project cargo · breakbulk logistics · out-of-gauge transport · project forwarding

Capability specifications

Cargo types: Out-of-gauge, breakbulk, overweight, project cargo
Equipment: Low-bed and modular (SPMT) trailers, mobile cranes, gantries
Services: Route survey, lifting plan, rigging, lashing and securing
Modes: Heavy-lift vessel charter, barge, escorted road haulage
Sectors served: Oil and gas, power, construction, marine

Companies with this capability in Singapore

Halcon Primo Logistics
Halcon Primo Logistics is a Singapore-headquartered logistics group founded in 2003, running 838,000-plus sq ft of bonded, non-bonded and automated warehousing — including an owned seven-hectare zero-GST bonded hub — plus air, ocean and cross-border road freight, project logistics and customs brokerage. Its NVOCC arm, Vega Orient Line, operates 800 containers in the Intra-Asia trade. Offices in Singapore, Malaysia and China; ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 certified, bizSAFE Star.
Tiong Woon Corporation Holding
An SGX-listed integrated heavy-lift, haulage and fabrication group serving Jurong Island process and oil-and-gas projects. Fabrication and structural and module work is delivered alongside its crane and transport fleet for plant construction and installation.
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Bok Seng Group
A Singapore-HQ project-logistics specialist with regional reach: heavy lifting and transport of oversized cargo, project-cargo storage and load-outs, skidding, positioning and crating, and transport-and-lifting engineering (rigging, sea-fastening, stability analysis), plus breakbulk freight forwarding and warehousing. Equipment includes SPMTs, mobile cranes (100-750 t), crawler cranes (250-750 t), 1,000-tonne hydraulic gantry cranes, jacking and skidding systems, barges and tugs.
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Poh Tiong Choon Logistics (PTC)
A long-established homegrown SGX-listed 3PL operating a fleet of over 1,000 cargo vehicles (prime movers, trailers, tippers, reefers), with warehousing and distribution, chemical and bulk haulage and drumming, a Jurong Island dangerous-goods complex and a multi-storey Pandan Road warehouse; supports infrastructure and industrial heavy moves and bulk-cargo stevedoring.
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Kim Soon Lee (Lim) Heavy Transport
A Singapore-HQ one-stop heavy transport and machinery-moving specialist running more than 400 vehicles across four Singapore depots; heavy cargo and equipment transport, cranage and lifting, plant relocation (trolleys, rollers, jacks), warehousing and equipment rental, with a project-management arm for infrastructure, oil-and-gas and civil-engineering moves.
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Hup Hin Transport
A Singapore-HQ heavy-haulage and crane firm operating across Singapore and Malaysia; the fleet spans mobile, crawler, rough-terrain and lorry cranes plus trailers and low-beds for heavy lifting, urban lifting, oversized and out-of-gauge transport, cargo handling and escort services.
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CWT
Singapore's largest homegrown integrated logistics group, offering air and sea freight forwarding, LCL consolidation (its CWT Globelink arm is one of the world's largest NVOCC/LCL consolidators), container depot, warehousing, contract logistics, self-performed customs declaration, and a CWT Project Logistics entity for project cargo with an islandwide bulk and container trucking fleet including FSB-licensed hazmat operations.
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Cogent Holdings
A Singapore-HQ integrated logistics-hub operator whose Cogent 1.Logistics Hub combines ramp-up warehousing, container depot and automotive logistics, alongside freight forwarding, contract logistics and transport supporting project and heavy-cargo moves. Now a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping International (Singapore).
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