Our Company
Chris Sizer leads the team with his experience and ability to ensure our customers needs and requirements are met. With a “never say no” attitude, he “finds solutions” to “get the job done”.
We have an excellent management team being directed by Chris:
- Doug Sizer is the Logistics Manager of South-east Queensland.
- Hugh Paton is the Operations Manager of NQBSL and Sizer & Cogill Bulk & General Carriers.
Sizer & Cogill Bulk & General Carriers provide strategic transport, logistics and storage solutions. With our stevedoring partner, we can manage your product from paddock to port or vis versa. We offer storage for bulk, bags, IBC’S, basically all things agricultural, which can be distributed when required.
We enlist the services of skilled and experienced people with the capacity to manage extensive projects.
What sets us apart from the competition?
- Our people – down to earth and flexible with ideas and requirement
- Client Relationships – you talk with hands-on managers
- Integrated Solutions for products from Wharf to Destination
- Experienced Team of Mobile Personnel and Equipment
Core Capabilities
Our wharf/port and transport/logistic experts analyse, and implement solutions for your needs in any of these areas for the most cost-effective, flexible, hassle free and professional solution.
- Material handling at the port
- Transportation
- Storage
- Distribution
Core Values
- Honesty
- Openness
- Integrity
- Co-operation
- Safety
Servicing your needs with Equipment
- Wharfage Equipment – grabs, hoppers, excavators, bobcats
- Transportable Weighbridge
- Container Handling Forklift, smaller forklifts
- Loaders
- Prime Movers
- Trailers - flat tops, side tippers (some with BK2 compliance), end tippers, container skel trailers, side load trailers for all applications – single, b-double, road train, triple/quad road train, dangerous goods and heavy haulage.
- All trailing equipment for single, b/double, road train, triple, and quad combinations.
Experienced Drivers
Our drivers are experienced working with the mining sector and agriculture. They have knowledge in loading anything from cement ARG’s, half-heights, general freight, fertiliser, grains & pulses. Drivers have experience and expertise in securing the load and loading to correct weight.
Storage Facilities Available
- Storage Shed located near Townsville Port
- Storage pad – hard stand located Townsville Distribution Precinct
Licenses & Accreditation
- Licensed at Australian Ports
- Mass Management
- Maintenance Management
- Certified Registered Export Establishment
- Staff qualified in Grain Classification
- Staff accredited for Approved Arrangements
- Onsite Authorised Officer
Our History
Chris Sizer & Helen Cogill started in the transport industry in February 1999. Chris was an owner/operator for a few years. As the business grew, the fleet grew to meet customer demand, and the company Sizer & Cogill Bulk & General Carriers Pty Ltd was formed.
In the early years, the freight was predominantly GRAIN & FERTILIZERS and general freight based in Millmerran, South East Queensland.
In 2015 the company started working in Townsville, where we now have a depot servicing the mining industry and agricultural industry in Central & Northern Queensland.
2020 saw the company start SIZER & COGILL AG, which operates John Deere headers, tractors & chaser bins, this business services customers from New South Wales to the Gulf at present.
NQ Bulk Storage & Logistics (NQBSL) began in 2020 in close vicinity to the Port of Townsville to fill a gap in the market for bulk storage, packing into containers & bulk for export and domestic distribution. All things agricultural, from fertiliser, meal, grains, pulses, and logs/timber. Our business is growing with demand, from exporting 11,000 tonnes of grain/pulses to 38,000 in 3 years. We are expecting to export between 70,000 – 80,000 tonnes in 2024.
Mid 2023 we began construction of our own purpose-built facility at Cleveland Bay Industrial Park (CBIP) near the Port of Townsville. Our new facility currently offers an operational 50-meter weighbridge with a 200-tonne capacity accompanied by 10 silos, that have storage capacity of 3,400 tonne.
Under construction is a new warehouse storage shed and an 18,000 square meter temporary storage pad. Our storage facility complies with all Biosecurity requirements under our Approved Arrangement with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. With our team maintaining hygiene and cleanliness, our storage facilities are operated to the highest standards. We keep track of all consignment receivals and discharge via Grainstor, that is linked to the weighbridge.