Specialist Solutions - Engineered and Delivered

Vanguard is an international, heavy lift, specialised transportation and installation company. Established as a private company in 1974, we offer a quality, safe and professional service whilst striving to exceed all clients’ needs and expectations.

50 Years of Vanguard

Throughout the last 50 years, we’ve been privileged to work in over 30 countries, across a wide range of sectors and we’ve been trusted to deliver cargo across countless borders. We’re honoured to have won numerous international industry awards, we’ve broken records and we own and operate industry leading equipment.

But from everything we’ve accomplished in the last 50 years, the achievement that we’re most proud of is our relationships, our partnerships and our people.

We are Vanguard.

Our Services

Vanguard provide complete service solutions to our clients project challenges, using our industry knowledge and experience to add value along the way.

Our expert team are committed to designing bespoke project solutions, utilising our innovative fleet to deliver industry leading results with a personal approach. 

Transportation

Vanguard owns and operates a large scale specialist transportation fleet, including a wide range of industry leading equipment. This allows us to tailor our approach to the specific requirements for each cargo, with our in-house team taking care of all necessary enroute support.

Heavy Lift

Our team provide unique heavy lift solutions to complex project challenges, on a global scale. Working closely with our clients, we listen carefully to understand their exact requirements, then engineer and deliver bespoke solutions to fully meet their project needs.

Installation

Vanguard provide a complete installation service, from lifting, jacking and skidding though to mechanical and electrical commissioning. Our industry leading equipment fleet allows us to tailor our approach, providing clients with reduced downtime and fewer enabling works.

Project Cargo

We have strategically positioned our offices around the globe to proactively support our clients with their project cargo requirements. The comprehensive knowledge and experience within the team ensures that the handling and shipping of breakbulk goods and project cargo is handled with meticulous precision, on an international scale. 

ENGINEERING

Our expert in-house engineering team are committed to designing the most efficient engineering solutions for each and every project we undertake. Our technical capabilities and experience drives us to engineer industry leading solutions and our extensive equipment fleet enable us to deliver the results.

PORT SERVICES

Vanguard are known for offering complete project solutions and supporting our clients through each stage of the job, including within the port. We offer a variety of solutions to project manage and handle breakbulk cargo through port transition stages, including
short-to-long term storage, loading, offloading and lifting.

Our People

Our biggest investment has always been our people. By creating an environment where we support and encourage each other, we bring together a group of diverse people with a common goal.

This is the foundation of Vanguard; it’s who we are.

Sectors We Work In

Vanguard provide a range of specialist engineering services to support our clients across a number of industry sectors. With extensive experience across each sector, we are able to fully apply our expert knowledge to identify the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for our clients needs.

Our Approach

We go above and beyond, and we strive to exceed all clients’ needs and expectations. From the initial inception of a project, our involvement includes the management of every individual stage of the process, ensuring the delivery of a complete solution and peace of mind to every client we work with.

Commercial Support

We listen and we’re honest. We work closely with our clients to listen and fully understand the requirements of the project. We provide all necessary commercial support from the very early stages of the project and remain proactively engaged right through to project completion, ensuring we exceed all of our clients needs and expectations.

Engineering & Design

Our expert in-house engineering
team are dedicated to providing bespoke solutions to each and every project we undertake. We use our knowledge and experience to approach projects with confidence, and our industry leading equipment fleet to successfully deliver the designed concept.

Operational Delivery

We pride ourselves on consistently delivering successful projects for our clients. Approaching each unique project with our unique knowledge and skillset. We use our experience to deliver every project with professionalism, honesty, dedication and respect. Ensuring we offer the highest quality service for a safe and efficient delivery.

Commissioning & Handover

Vanguard provides a
comprehensive commissioning
service for our clients projects, offering a complete solution to the operational challenges that are faced within the industry. We project manage each aspect of the delivery and ensure clear and robust handovers are in place at project signoff. 

Highest Standards of Service

Our team remain committed to providing the highest standards of service across each of our projects. We believe in offering a personal approach to delivering industry leading solutions for our clients. We listen and we’re honest in our approach, taking pride in our client relationships. 

We are Vanguard

Projects

We pride ourselves on consistently delivering successful projects for our clients, so we wanted to demonstrate some of our most recent projects.

Transportation of 171ton cold box from Namibia to Zambia

Vanguard Relocate the SAS Assegaai Submarine

Vanguards record breaking wind blade transportation