Case Study: Delivering Special Equipment Wheels from China to Las Palmas

The task: A Spanish company commissioned the delivery of 12 special equipment wheels from China to the Canary Islands — to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. This is a cross-booking: transport entirely between third countries, without entering Ukraine. Ukrautologistic Group handles orders like this as well — the logistics chain is built around the specific route and the client’s task.

The scheme and the reasoning behind it: Special equipment wheels are large, heavy, and wrapped in protective gold foil for thermal insulation during storage and transport. Flying them straight from China to Spain is expensive. So we chose a combined scheme: by sea from Shanghai to Gdańsk as consolidated cargo within a container — this significantly cut the cost of the main leg. From Gdańsk, road delivery to Warsaw airport, and from there an air flight to Las Palmas. Air freight on the final stretch wasn’t a whim but a necessity: Las Palmas sits on an island, and a sea route there would have added weeks.

Result: All 12 wheels arrived to the client in Las Palmas. The sea + road + air combination made it possible to balance cost and timing — the longest and cheapest leg was covered by sea, while the island factor was solved by air.