Robert Aspinall

Background

About Robert Aspinall

I am the CEO and Founder of The Shipping Monster, a specialty logistics company offering shipping solutions to live events, attractions, and the entertainment industry. With over 200 offices worldwide, we are everywhere you need us to be. We offer all the transport services, domestic and international trucking, air freight, and ocean freight. We have worldwide customs brokers, produce our own ATA Carnets, and can help you with your import/export documentation preparation. We are also a touring and logistics consultancy. We can source production management for you and run your installations and load-outs. The Storage Monster has Dry and Climate storage all over the globe. If you don’t know why the rigging needs to be loaded in before the light and sound, then we are probably not a good match. Sorry! But, if you are one of us and like load outs that go quickly, trucks that show up on time and in order, then WELCOME! We work the same vampire hours you do, and our reach is global! After working 13 years in the entertainment industry in specialty logistics for an Australian company, we moved to the USA in 2003. We started the Shipping Monster in May 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was after an incredibly hard 2008, which included seven continuous weeks on the road (starting in Singapore, then Bahrain, and ending up in Vienna) when we began to ask ourselves, “Why are we doing this for someone else?” Starting our own company was a scary prospect, but it was the next stage of our development. Highlights-Partnerships with IAAPA, TEA, teo, MuseumNext, Touring Exhibitions Group, Canadian Museums Association, and many more-Projects in 160 cities, 40 countries, over the span of 11 years -Networks in Atlanta, Vancouver, Mexico City, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Melbourne