Cross Meridian is a well-established global freight and trade network, offering a single-source solution to manage and transport freight. We have a team of experts supervising operations, offers the best fit solutions with its access to a vast agent network of air, ocean, rail or road transport facilities, all of which provides its customers with faster and wider access to vital markets globally.
Whether you are a trader looking for a ship to move your cargo or a ship owner looking for suitable cargoes, we are here to help you.
At Cross Meridian, we handle all types of cargoes, containers, project cargoes, bulk and break-bulk cargoes.
Though we work in all areas around the world, our main focus
- for LCL and FCL shipments are CIS countries and the land-locked countries in Central Africa.
- for bulk, break-bulk and project cargoes lies in the region East of the Suez Canal, viz., E.Afr - Red Sea - PG - Indian Subcontinent - SE Asia - Far East.
For LCL & FCL cargoes:
- Single Negotiable Documents.
- Door to Door Service.
- Excellent relationships with shipping lines to achieve priority shipping.
- Ability to offer customized solutions based on individual customer requirements.
- Documentation Support System.
- Range of services that cover every aspect of supply chain solution.
- Wide international network of partners to expedite cargo movement.
- Presence in co-related activities by partner companies, i.e. Shipping, Warehousing, etc.
For bulk, break-bulk and project cargoes:
- We provide shipbroking and enhanced freight management services.
- We work with our clients from the pre-trading stage by providing indicative freight rates (budgetary quotes) to help them finalise their trading.
- We can provide inputs in the planning of loading/ unloading sequence and help our clients monitor the operations closely to achieve faster turnaround at ports.
- We can help our clients to liaise with other service providers like agents, stevedores, PNI, port captains etc to ensure smooth operations and to avoid charter party disputes.
- Apart from regular operations matters, we also help coordinate on post-fixture paperwork until closure of file.
FREIGHT FORWARDING
We provide international freight forwarding service to any part of the world with the help of our extensive network of shipping agents and service providers. We deliver highly flexible and bespoke cargo transport solutions to our customers to meet their specific demands.
We specialise LCL and FCL shipments to landlocked Central African countries and to CIS countries such as Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and others.
We specialize in providing cost effective and quality customs clearing services through our exclusive tie-ups. Through them, we take care of all pre-shipment and post-shipment customs documentation which includes preparation of all shipping documents, filing and clearing the same with the customs departments, obtaining statutory documents such as certificate of origin, legalization by embassies/ consulates, permissions required from export promotion councils and Chambers of Commerce, processing of customs drawback, excuse refund, DEPB, DEEC Audit-DFRC verification, finalization, releasing of Bill(s) of lading etc.
DRY BULK CARGOES
Our range of dry bulk cargoes include Limestone, Dolomite, Gypsum, Clinker, Alumina, Gabbro aggregates, Ball Clay, Bentonite, Barytes, Agro commodities etc
BREAK BULK CARGOES
We can handle all kinds of bagged cargoes, steel products, agro products, paper bales etc, - both as sole and as part cargoes.
PROJECT CARGOES
We can handle heavy-lift cargoes and other cargoes like rail wagons, buses, heavy equipment, boiler, machinery, large drums etc on one-off shipments or as regular shipments.
ABOUT US
Cross Meridian was created with a commitment to providing reliable, high quality, logistics services across meridians. We provide our clients with chartering solutions via spot voyage charters, time charters, long period charters, consecutive voyage charters and contracts of affreightment to arrive at optimal freight outcomes.
We can provide our clients with everything from simple brokerage advice to complete end-to-end shipping solutions.