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2. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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   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 extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.

3. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   Intermodal container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and ...

4. 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. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with ...

5. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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   A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company 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 (party that transports goods). The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads ...

6. 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 ...

7. Logistics - Wikipedia

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   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. [2] [3] Logistics management is a component that holds the supply chain together. [3]