Started by an operator, which shows in the quotations
Hiring since 2017. Seventeen machines, thirty eight islands, and a rule about licences that has cost us work.
Why we quote the way we do
Eighteen years in the seat, mostly on harbour and reclamation jobs, taught one lesson worth building a company on: almost every island job that goes wrong went wrong before the machine arrived.
The wrong machine for the lane. A ramp that cannot take the weight at low water. A barge booked for a Thursday when the tide is wrong. An operator with nowhere to sleep. None of those is a machine problem and all of them are billed as one.
So we do two unusual things. We visit before quoting anything larger than a mixer, and we quote in five lines rather than one. About one job in five leaves the site visit with a different machine from the one that was asked for, usually a smaller one, which is a strange way to sell plant and a good way to be hired again.
The third thing is the licence rule. No machine over five tonnes leaves the yard without one of our operators unless your own operator holds a current licence for that class and your site has a supervisor. We ask to see the card. That has cost us jobs and it is not up for discussion.
What we are not is the cheapest line on a tender. We are the yard that will tell you your ramp is wrong before the barge is paid for.
Four of us in the office and the yard
Ibrahim Faseeh
Operated for eighteen years on harbour and reclamation jobs before buying the first machine. Still does most of the site visits himself.
Adam Shahid
Plans every crane lift and writes the quotations. The person who will tell you that your ramp cannot take the machine you asked for.
Hussain Sinan
Keeps the fleet running and travels out to any job over a fortnight. Decides what leaves the yard and what does not.
Aishath Rifga
Sets up the contractor accounts, matches the invoices to purchase orders, and chases the ones that go quiet.
How far ahead to ask
How far ahead should I ask
Two weeks for a small excavator, a tipper or a mixer. Six weeks for the thirteen tonne machine. Two months for the crane, and longer in the dry season when everybody pours at once.
The request you send through this site holds the machine for seven days while we price the barge, which is usually enough to get an answer back to your client.
Can I cancel
More than fourteen days before loading, at no charge. Inside fourteen days the barge slot is charged, because we have already paid for it and it cannot be resold at that notice.
Moving a date rather than cancelling is nearly always possible and nearly always free. Telephone us rather than writing if the date is close.
Book a site visit
Ninety minutes, no charge in Kaafu atoll, and a written quotation two working days later.