Since 1844 JF Hillebrand dedicated their expertise exclusively to the logistics of wine, spirits, and beer. You will find us in every major wine, beer and spirit export and import wine country in the world. Today more than 1200 professionals in 43 offices all over the world put that experience to work for our clients, by taking care of the smooth flow of beverages day after day.

The Hillebrand Group operates a global portfolio of specialist logistics companies, across a range of industry sectors. Headquartered in Mainz, Germany, the Hillebrand Group’s companies are present in 78 countries around the world.

Trans Ocean

Trans Ocean

Australia : Oceania

Trans Ocean have a long history of shipping bulk liquids in Australia. 2002 was a significant milestone - the signing of a Joint Venture between Trans Ocean and Flexible Logistics Services. Then in July 2008 FLS became wholly owned by Trans Ocean.

While Australia’s largest export market is minerals and fuel, Australia is also famous for exporting fine wines and quality foods. On average, Australia’s exports have grown by 8.7 per cent per annum over the past five years and 70% of this goes to the Asian countries.

Services

  • The Adelaide depot has been uniquely built to facilitate the industrial and wine markets in large volumes. Capacity can be in excess of 200 20ft containers and hold the largest number of Flexitanks for supply. The advantage of trucking facilities along with AQIS/Quarantine registered allows Trans Ocean to offer a fully integrated supply chain when required.
  • The Trans Ocean technical, fitting and storage depots are strategically located around the main ports of Australia: Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.
  • 24 hour technical assistance is handled by our fitting depots & our dedicated in house technical experts who have been trained extensively since our partnership in 2002.
  • Customer service is handled by our HQ in Adelaide where we have employed experts in shipping bulk liquids. 

Transit Times (days)

To/From

Freemantle

Adelaide

Melbourne

Sydney

Tokyo

Via Melbourne

Via Melbourne

17

15

Hong Kong

Via Melbourne

Via Melbourne

20

21

Los Angeles

Via Melbourne

27

26

25

Oakland

Via Melbourne

28

26

25

Philadelphia

Via Melbourne

Via Melbourne

31

30

Tilbury

36

32

34

40

Rotterdam

Via Antwerp

35

44

42


 

Australia Fact File

Surface: 7 686 850km²
Population: 21 million
Languages: English (native language)
Currency: Australian Dollar
Country telephone codes: +61
Time zone: Adelaide GMT +8.5 hours, Sydney GMT +9 hours


 

Holidays (office closed)

1 Jan (New Year’s Day)
26 Jan (Australia Day)
8 March (Adelaide Cup)
2 April (Good Friday)
5 April (Easter Monday)
26 April (Anzac Day)
14 June (Queen’s Birthday/Volunteer’s Day)
4 October (Labour Day)
27 December (Christmas)
28 December (Proclamation Day)

Trans Ocean Australia                                                                                                                            Level 2, 225 Greenhill Road
Dulwich
South Australia 5065
Australia

Postal:                                                                                                                                                    Trans Ocean Australia
PO Box 10537
Adelaide BC
SA 5000
Australia

T + 61 8 8352 0290
F + 61 8 8352 0266
 

End-to-end logistics

Trans Ocean is known for our end-to-end logistics service:

  • Supply & fit
  • Loading
  • Transfer to port
  • Shipping
  • Transfer to receiver
  • Unloading
  • Recycling

Peace of mind from factory to destination.

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