Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Heavy lift charter operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 848 heavy lift charter operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 17,024 professional contacts across them, including 4,559 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Houston the largest hub.
This list covers heavy lift charter operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for heavy lift charter operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest heavy lift charter operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,617 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sarens has been providing heavy lift, engineered transport and specialized rigging services for 60 years, building a thriving global enterprise that today operates in over 60…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,036 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1969, Barnhart Crane & Rigging has been a trusted partner to industries facing their most complex lifting, rigging, and transportation challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 786 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are proud of our expertise in Lifting & Moving Heavy Objects!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Columbia Helicopters, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heavy lift, transport and offshore installation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader Français du transport exceptionnel (bateaux, énergies, nucléaires, aéronautique, BTP, Nautisme, …), le Groupe Capelle s'appuie sur 70 ans d'expérience pour offrir le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BBC Chartering is the global market leader for the ocean carriage of heavy lift and project cargoes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Deep South Crane & Rigging provides heavy-lift, heavy-haul, and heavy-rigging solutions for industrial, energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects throughout the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STERLING CRANE A Marmon Crane Services/Berkshire Hathaway Company RAISING THE STANDARD OF SERVICE EXCELLENCE SINCE 1954 Committed To Safety, Service, Quality Equipment and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LASO TRANSPORTES, S.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Especialistas en transporte de piezas especiales, indivisibles, sobre-dimensionadas y extra-pesadas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Keen Transport is a national provider of heavy-haul logistics and transportation services for the construction, mining, and agriculture equipment markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1978 and listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST") Mainboard since Tiong Woon is a leading integrated heavy lift specialist and service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OUR CORE BUSINESS Megalift's core business is the transportation of heavy and over sized cargoes, lifting and installation, crane rigging, barging and chartering of ships and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EMAR Offshore Services - Your Maritime Service Provider EMAR Offshore Services is a dedicated Maritime Service company active in chartering and contracting in the towage and heavy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BigLift Shipping, member of the Spliethoff Group, is one of the world’s leading heavy lift shipping companies, specialised in worldwide ocean transportation of ro-ro, heavy lift…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Logística y Heavy Lift.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience means everything when your bottom line is, well, on the line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Having many years of professional and business history Founded in late 70s, the Mohammad Abdullah ALAREEDH has grown alongside the region by evolving to meet the rising demands of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Osprey believes that integrated engineered logistics, on land and by water, can transform the way critical UK infrastructure is built.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rig Runner (MC429418; DOT1014498) was established as a specialized carrier in March 2002.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Propair, a company founded in 1954, offers a variety of services, including charter flights, aeromedical evacuations, business shuttles and aircraft maintenance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CHI Aviation is a veteran-owned leader in heavy-lift helicopter services, specializing in support for the construction, HVAC, fire-suppression and defense industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1995, Helicopter Express has offered the very best in personnel and aviation equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Radia is revolutionizing air logistics with the WindRunner™, the world’s largest aircraft by volume, capable of transporting oversized payloads to locations previously unreachable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: heavy lift charter operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names heavy lift charter operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of heavy lift charter operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name heavy lift charter operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Heavy lift charter operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among heavy lift charter operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for heavy lift charter operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “heavy lift charter operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names heavy lift charter operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among heavy lift charter operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,559 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Heavy lift charter operators by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Heavy lift charter operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names heavy lift charter operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many heavy lift charter operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 848 heavy lift charter operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sarens, headquartered in Wolvertem, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most heavy lift charter operators?
The United States leads with 188 companies, followed by Brazil (56) and Germany (44). Every heavy lift charter operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most heavy lift charter operators?
Houston leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (11) and Dubai (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,559 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 848 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.