Various transportation and shipping modes are available to shippers today to help move goods worldwide. But sometimes, one shipping mode is not enough to move your freight to the proper location. Perhaps, your goods are going a long way from another part of the world by ship or aircraft. The freight must be moved over the road, air, and ocean to reach the destination. As a result, shippers often need to combine transportation modes to get their goods to the right place. Logistic companies define two ways of such combination: intermodal and multimodal transport.
Multimodal is the combination of different types of transport to move a shipment. The carrier can include trucks, trains, ships, airplanes, etc. Even though the load breaks down into different modes of transport, it still falls under a single contract/bill of lading. Companies that choose multimodal shipping can handle all shipping delays and interactions through one provider and ease the stress of communicating between different contacts. Some of the main advantages of multimodal transport are efficiency in delivery time and proficient shipment tracking.
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