Lashed & Secured is a free, practical resource for people who move things for a living. It covers total logistics: air, road and sea, plus project and heavy lift.
- Air
- Road
- Sea
- Project & heavy lift
Who we are
We're logistics people. We've spent years on project cargo, heavy lifts and out-of-gauge moves for oil and gas, energy and industrial jobs: planning flat racks at the quayside, checking crane charts, chasing air waybills, lashing transformers and explaining surcharges to customers who just want to know why the price changed.
Most of what you learn doing that job isn't written down anywhere useful. It sits in people's heads, old emails and expensive software. We started Lashed & Secured to put it somewhere everyone can use it.
What you'll find here
- Plain-English guides on the things that actually trip people up, from container sizes to bunker surcharges, with the how-to spelled out.
- Free, real-world tools that work on your phone: the container guide with 3D views, the cube and chargeable weight calculator, the VGM calculator and tariff look-ups, with a 3D load planner to follow.
- News that matters across air, road and sea, explained in terms of what it means for your cargo rather than just repeated.
- A fortnightly newsletter that rounds it all up, free and easy to leave.
Our promise
- Practical. If it doesn't help you plan, load or ship something, it doesn't go in.
- Independent. We don't sell freight. We don't quote, book or arrange shipments, and we never sell your details to forwarders.
- Accurate. Figures are checked against carrier and industry sources, and we fix mistakes quickly.
- Sources cited. Every guide shows where its numbers come from, so you can check them yourself.
Everything here is general information. Always confirm the figures for your job with your carrier, port, surveyor or lifting engineer.
Who writes it
Guides and news are written and checked by the Lashed & Secured editorial team, drawing on hands-on experience in project cargo, heavy lift and freight operations. Each guide lists its sources and when it was last updated.
Corrections policy
We aim to be accurate and to correct mistakes quickly. If you spot an error, email hello@lashedandsecured.com with the page and what you think is wrong. We check the point against primary sources, such as regulators, carriers and official tariffs, and if we were wrong we fix the page and change its "Updated" date. Where a correction changes a figure or a conclusion, we add a short note to the page saying what changed and when.
Affiliate links and advertising
Some pages contain affiliate links, marked (Ad), and the site may carry advertising and newsletter sponsorship. Pages with affiliate links say so at the top. Commercial relationships do not decide what we cover or recommend.
Get in touch
Spotted a mistake, or want a guide on something? Email hello@lashedandsecured.com.