Delivery Record · Kazakhstan · 2025
A dredging contractor needed five 30-tonne amphibious excavators assembled to its own specification. We signed the supply contract as the exporter, had the machines built at a Shandong factory that makes pontoon undercarriages, and trucked them 4,000 km to the Kazakh border. This page is that order, taken from its contract, loading record and customs papers.
Withheld: client name, factory name, machine model, document numbers and the exact price.
Loading day at the factory: a pontoon undercarriage goes onto a flatbed.
The Loading Plan
An amphibious excavator is 4.1 metres wide on its pontoons, too wide to travel assembled. Each machine left the factory as an upper structure, two pontoons and a boarding ladder, twenty packages on the packing list. The usual plan for five machines is ten flatbeds. We planned it on eight.
Gross weight per truck, from the loading record. Bars are drawn against a 30-tonne deck. An upper structure is 10 × 3 × 2.7 m, so it takes a flatbed to itself. How we plan loads like this is on the machinery shipping page.
The same buyer had two smaller orders ready at the time, track chain and plastic track pads. They rode on trucks 1, 4 and 8 instead of taking a truck of their own.
About $4,500 per truck, covering road freight and insurance to Khorgos, lifting, unloading and the border warehouse. The quote said in writing what happens if eight trucks turn out not to be enough.
An upper structure on the overhead crane, with a flatbed waiting in front.
The Timeline
Day 0 is the day both sides signed the supply contract. The dates behind these day counts are in the order file.
Day1
Half the contract value, paid by bank transfer the day after signing.
Day6
Trucks, insurance and border handling are added to the contract as a supplementary agreement, with the number of trucks and the daily charge for waiting written in.
Day32
The contract ties the second half to our written notice that the machines are ready to leave for the border. The buyer paid it, and the freight, on the same day.
Days39–40
Five trucks on the first day, three on the second. Loading started at eight each morning. The loading record lists the load and weight of every truck, in Chinese and in Russian.
Days45–47
About 4,000 km by road. The loading plan allowed five to six days of driving and put arrival at the border warehouse on these days, with progress reported on the way.
Days62–68
Under the contract we deliver to the border checkpoint and unload. The twenty pieces went onto the buyer's own carriers, and export customs released them on one declaration: five machines, 148 tonnes, with us as the exporter of record. Import clearance in Kazakhstan was handled by the buyer.
What Was on Paper
For a machine that is not standard, the paperwork is how you hold the seller to what was agreed. These are the terms of this one contract. Your contract will carry its own terms.
Supply contract · key terms
Handed over with the machines
How payment steps and refunds work on our orders in general is on the process page.
The Machine
The order fixed the boom length, the pontoon size, the steel grade and the make of the travel motors in writing, and the factory built to that list. These figures are from the data sheet that went to customs.
A pontoon undercarriage in the assembly hall, with a worker on top for scale.
The same buyer has ordered again since: a weed-cutting boat and more track chain. The rest of what we supply for a dredging line, from pumps to pipe and geotextile tubes, is on the dredging equipment page. Other delivered orders are in the case studies.
Next Step
A factory can quote a non-standard machine from these five things. Whatever is missing, we will ask for. You get back which factories can build it, what they quote, and how it would travel.
Or email it to [email protected].
This order went to Kazakhstan by road. Buyers in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Gulf and South America send specifications the same way, and their machines travel by sea.