Marine Container Transportation

Sea container transportations today do not lose their popularity, as first of all they have serious advantages over other kinds of heavy cargo traffic:

Their main advantage is low cost. Water transport, as a rule, is less expensive compared to many other types of transport, transporting goods over long distances.

Also, sea container transportations make it possible to transport all types of cargo. For example, the use of special containers for vessels Open Top and High Cube will allow the delivery of a wide range of goods, including bulk, oversized, dangerous and requiring specific storage conditions.

When sea container transportation is performed , as a rule, the company that carries out these works provides a number of additional services. Sea container transportation for each customer is carried out with the provision of a variety of additional services, which includes customs clearance, insurance, as well as storage and certification of goods.

Intra-port freight forwarding is often a necessary stage of the full process of cargo delivery. Intra-port forwarding consists of a large number of different operations. Properly conducted forwarding is an excellent understanding of the forwarder's actions in relation to the required documentation, and a good knowledge of the work of the port service.

If you look in detail at the stage of forwarding operations, then often it looks something like this:

• Processing of information about goods that are waiting for arrival;
• Selection of the most suitable terminal for the processing of transported goods;
• Work with documents on the delivery of goods and shipping documents, which must be pre-assembled from the line and ship agents;
• Obtaining permits and organizing the storage and transshipment of all dangerous, heavy, and oversized cargo;
• Registration of all required intraportal and interterminal documents;
• All types of operations (for example, separation, palletizing, part-time work and the like) relating to reloading to related modes of transport and all other work related to the loading and unloading of transported products;
• Inspection of transported goods (survey services - inspection of ships, cargo, other objects in the marine business and insurance, as well as issuing opinions on their technical condition);
• Inspection operations and cargo weighing, also conducted at the request of the control authorities or in accordance with the application of the consignee;
• Accumulation of goods at port terminals for its subsequent export and so on.