Active in all areas of shipping and ships’ agency, our team gathers decades of experience, understanding Principals’ requirements and looking after their interests on a 24/7 basis.
TRUST
With a network of trusted business partners around the Globe, we ensure your cargo is travelling door-to-door across continents in the safest, more economical and more efficient way.
KNOWHOW
The combined experience and professional know-how ensures our Principals our team is dealing with their ship, their crew or their cargo with the utmost care and attention.
about us
who we are
Over 40 years of Shipping Experience.
Headed by Luís Branco, whose experience in shipping goes back to 1974, L.Branco, Lda. employs experienced shipping agency and international freight and project forwarding professionals, who are able to respond to Customers’ requirements 7 days a week.
Locally, L.Branco, Lda. offers ship owners, ship operators and ship managers all the necessary services to respond to their vessels’ and crews’ requirements; to shippers, charterers and receivers L.Branco proposes appropriate and price-competitive sea, air and land transport solutions; internationally, through its network of business partners around the Globe, L.Branco, Lda. covers almost any transport or logistic operation worldwide.
Loading vehicles and helicopter for the Azores Rallye
NATO military vehicles disembarking at Setuba
Loading refinery equipment made in Portugal
Loading project cargo at Sines.
Loading mobile substations at Setubal, destination Mozambique
Loading heavy equipment at Setubal
Loading heavy equipment at Alstom's - 2 x 500 ton- cranes
Loading heavy construction machinery from Setubal to Oman
Loading German military vehicles at Setuba
Loading Alstom equipment
Loading a yacht at Setubal
Loading a coolbox at setubal
Loading a 42M yacht on a semi-submersible vessel at Setubal.
Handling refinery equipment exported through Setubal
handling refinery equipment at the port of Sines
Handling military vehicles, port of Setubal
Handling heavy paper mill equipment; Figueira da Foz, fishermen's berth
Handling Alstom Hydro equipment for a river dam in the south of Portugal
Handling a 120 ton piece of equipment for Embraer's factory
Azores Rallye - helicopter landing on board on roro carrying rallye's cars and trucks
Attending Spanish Navy vessel at Leixoes
Attending Peruvian sailing school vessel Union at Lisbon port
Alstom equipment being placed alongside Ship
45M _ 160 ton- coolbox being loaded at Setubal
Transporting heavy Alstom Hydro equipment on the mountains, north of Portugal
Shipping a fully assembled 370 ton crane from Lisbon to Figueira da Foz
Placing a generator on foundation through the roof using a 1.000 ton- crane; paper mill, V.V. de Ródão
Placing a 90 ton- generator on foundation through the roof using a 1000 ton- crane; paper mil V.V. de Ródão
Pandur armoured vehicles being loaded at Leixoes for NATO exercises in Lithuania
Pandur armoured vehicles being loaded at Leixoes for NATO exercises in Lithuania
Shipment of 2 evaporators Portugal / Chile
Loading a 162 ton transformer at the port of Leixões
Transporting overland placing railway machine on tracks
Shipment of refinery equipment from Portugal to Bulgaria – land + sea + land
L.Branco has been organizing customs clearance formalities at the Portuguese port of entry, idem at the Spanish border for machines bound to Spain, and trucking to and discharging onto rail tracks at the destination sites. Some of the machines are worth more than 3.5 million euro.