A water-equipment shipment from Amsterdam Schiphol combined four general-cargo air waybills and one dangerous-goods air waybill for batteries. The final destination was a remote lakeside installation site in El Salvador with unpaved access, no forklift and no loading dock.
The shipment and receiving constraints
The shipment comprised 14,201 kg of water-purification equipment, moving from Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) to San Salvador (SAL), with onward delivery to the lake. It moved on a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) basis, with the battery shipment identified as UN3481.
The movement could not be treated as one uniform air shipment. Most of the equipment travelled as general cargo, while the batteries required a separate dangerous-goods workstream. Dimensions and weights changed during planning, freighter space had to be coordinated across five air waybills, and the final site could not receive cargo through a conventional dock-and-forklift handoff.
Planning air freight around the final delivery
Freight and documentation were planned as connected workstreams. Four air waybills covered the general cargo and one covered the battery shipment identified as UN3481. The team coordinated export handling, air capacity and destination customs clearance, then planned a final-mile unloading method around the site rather than assuming standard warehouse equipment would be available.
FreightHub Logistics’ Netherlands team coordinated changes to dimensions, weights and shipment labels with the customer's logistics team. The final road leg used unpaved roads and a site-specific unloading solution.
Delivered ready for installation
The full shipment was uplifted, cleared and delivered within the agreed timeline, ready for installation.
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