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2. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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   This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. [1] The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been ...

3. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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   A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes .

4. Logistics - Wikipedia

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   A warehouse in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction outside Philadelphia, where trucks deliver slabs of granite. Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.

5. Intermodal freight transport - Wikipedia

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   Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, aircraft, and truck ), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes. The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damage and loss, and ...

6. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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   Definition and functions. A freight forwarder is an entity who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers. [3] A carrier is an entity that actually transports goods and may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks ...

7. Shipping agency - Wikipedia

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   A shipping agency, shipping agent, or ship agency is the term used to refer to the appointed companies that handle operational and procedural (legal) requirements for a commercial vessel's call at a port for the purposes of cargo handling (loading/discharging), emergency calls, repairs, crew changes, or ship demolition, and protect the general interests of their principals on behalf of ship ...