When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Corpus Christi calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Corpus Christi metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in Corpus Christi, TX and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. Our crews work across Corpus Christi and nearby Texas metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Corpus Christi's refining, port & wind energy base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across Corpus Christi. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in Corpus Christi, TX is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in Refinery Row along the Inner Harbor north of the Harbor Bridge, the Ingleside crude oil export terminals on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay, and the La Quinta Channel LNG and petrochemical corridor. They are large refinery process units and tank farms along the Inner Harbor, plus deepwater tank and pipeline terminal infrastructure at Ingleside built for tanker loading rather than truck or building access — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's crude oil and refined products export terminals, petroleum refining along Refinery Row, LNG liquefaction and export, and petrochemical and polyethylene manufacturing.
Plenty of Corpus Christi, TX work — refining, port & wind energy — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these TX and regional markets:
Corpus Christi's industrial base — refining, port & wind energy — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical rigging jobs for Corpus Christi customers include:
A Corpus Christi lift list usually runs to crude distillation and refining process equipment, storage tank and pipeline terminal components, LNG liquefaction train equipment, and dockside loading arms and marine terminal equipment, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the Corpus Christi metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Corpus Christi metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Corpus Christi metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Corpus Christi metro.
Plenty of Corpus Christi jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Not every Corpus Christi rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific and CPKC, all reaching the port via the Port of Corpus Christi's own Texas Coastal Bend Railroad switching line. The Port of Corpus Christi is a leading US crude oil export gateway, with deepwater terminals at Ingleside built to load very large crude carriers. Add I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Corpus Christi plant can leave on a trailer, in a rail car, or over water — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Corpus Christi, TX is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Corpus Christi jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Corpus Christi crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Corpus Christi? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Corpus Christi, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Corpus Christi and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Portland | San Patricio County | 7 mi |
| Robstown | Nueces County | 17 mi |
| Ingleside | San Patricio County | 13 mi |
| Aransas Pass | San Patricio County | 17 mi |
| Gregory | San Patricio County | 11 mi |
| Rockport | Aransas County | 26 mi |
| Alice | Jim Wells County | 41 mi |
| Kingsville | Kleberg County | 34 mi |
| Bishop | Nueces County | 29 mi |
| Beeville | Bee County | 47 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Corpus Christi services, Industrial Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Corpus Christi jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Corpus Christi as one accountable job.
Corpus Christi machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Corpus Christi plants.
plant relocation in Corpus Christi →In Corpus Christi we also run machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Corpus Christi.
The same Corpus Christi crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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