Out-of-gauge (OOG) cargo shipping to and from Ukraine

OOG cargo shipping to Ukraine, handled end to end

For over 15 years NOVALOG UKRAINE has moved out-of-gauge cargo to and from Ukraine for manufacturers, project shippers and traders across the USA, Europe and Asia. OOG cargo shipping to Ukraine means any load whose dimensions exceed a standard container — mill rollers, machinery, transformers, oversized units and vehicles — moving on flat-rack and open-top containers, or as breakbulk when no box will hold it. We are a fully licensed and bonded freight forwarder with our own container terminal in Odesa, so the equipment choice, the securing, the permits, the routing and the crane lifts all sit with one accountable team — not a chain of brokers passing your cargo between them.

Out-of-gauge moves reward experience more than any other freight, and through Ukraine that is doubly true. The country's Black Sea maritime corridor — the coastal lane linking the Greater Odesa ports with Romania's Constanța and the Bosphorus — carries the large majority of Ukraine's seaborne cargo, and oversized units have to be planned around it. The Greater Odesa ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi remain open, but moving an awkward load through them safely takes a forwarder who plans for disruption and insures every leg.

Flat-rack, open-top and breakbulk from the USA, Europe and Asia

We book and route out-of-gauge cargo on the lanes our customers use most: from the United States (New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Savannah), from Europe (Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Genoa) and from Asia (Shanghai and Ningbo). The first decision is always the equipment — flat-rack for loads that overhang the sides, open-top for cargo that must be craned in from above, breakbulk for units no container can carry. We pick the gear from your real dimensions, weight and centre of gravity, then secure and lash the cargo so it rides safely.

Because we run our own 3,799 m² terminal in Odesa with two 50-tonne gantry cranes, 380 V reefer power and secure storage, your oversized cargo arrives into a facility we control — and we lift it ourselves rather than waiting on a third-party crane and a third-party yard where visibility ends at the gate. That is what lets us handle the heavy, awkward loads that standard ocean networks turn away.

One team for securing, clearance and delivery

Every OOG booking with NOVALOG includes the parts that usually go wrong when they are split between vendors. We arrange the oversized permits and routing an out-of-gauge unit needs. Our nationally licensed, in-house customs broker clears import and export cargo. We arrange war-risk marine insurance on every voyage. And we plan multimodal backups — rail, road and the Danube river ports of Reni and Izmail — so a single disrupted sea call does not strand a one-off, oversized shipment that cannot simply roll onto the next box vessel.

Send us the dimensions, the weight, the lane and your Incoterms (FOB, CFR, DAP or DDP), and we will come back with all-in pricing, an equipment plan and a realistic transit window within one business day.