Every year the same thing happens. The rain arrives, boats slip a week, and the sites that ordered late are the ones standing still.
Every year the same thing happens. The first heavy week of rain arrives, the cargo boats slip, and the sites that left their cement order until they needed it are the ones standing around.
There are two reasons it bites harder here than it looks like it should. The first is that a slipped boat is not a slipped day: the next scheduled sailing to most islands is a week later, so a two day delay at the harbour becomes nine days on site. The second is storage. Bagged cement does not keep well in the wet, and a site with nowhere dry to put a pallet cannot simply order early and hold it.
What works is ordering against the programme instead of against the week. Send us the pour schedule and we will hold the stock in the Hulhumalé yard, under cover, and release it load by load. You pay when it leaves us, not when we buy it, and if the programme moves we move with it.
For island jobs, add a week to whatever the schedule says between May and November and you will be right more often than not. Double wrapping costs a few rufiyaa a pallet and it is the difference between a load you can use and a load you cannot.
If you are not sure how much you will need, bring the drawing in. Working it out is free and it takes about twenty minutes.
