Multimodal transportation is a kind of transportation of outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo with usage of 2 or more kinds of transport with single transportation document with cargo reshipping in transfer points from one kind of transport to another without freight owner’s participation. Different kinds of transport are used during multimodal transportations: highway transportation operations, railway, maritime and river transportations in any combination.
Multimodal transportation is a direct transportation with usage of at least 2 different kinds of transport and which as a rule are carried out within one country. It is often impossible to transport outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo with a high quality and in a fast way using a single kind of transport. In such cases multimodal transportations are indispensable, they allow to combine maritime, railway and over-the-road truck transport. In some cases one could decline expenses and economize time. So, if it is more economical to transport outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo by over-the-road truck transport during the first period of way or to use maritime transport during the second one.
Multimodal transportations need a careful bulk train elaboration. For this purpose it is necessary to estimate the most appropriate variant of usage of this or that kind of transport on every stage of transportation. It is also very important to define the shortest and the most inexpensive way of outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo transportation. “SpecBaltTrans” shipping company is responsible for multimodal and intermodal transportations in general. In this case we give to sender a document on outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo transportations, which covers all the way of outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo transportations.
Below you could learn in details about the peculiarities of multimodal transportations:
Geographic advantages of “SpecBaltTrans” shipping company for multimodal transportations.
Advantage of experience for multimodal transportations
Geographic advantages of “SpecBaltTrans” shipping company for multimodal transportations
The main significance for organization of multimodal transportations by different kinds of transport is the multimodality of St.-Petersburg as a transport hub:
Trade seaport
The ports of Leningrad region
St.-Petersburg river port
St.-Petersburg as a large railway hub, connecting the city with east, north and south of Russia
A network of highway routs of federal and regional significance.
Using the advantages of different kinds of transport - highway transportation operations, railway, maritime and river transportations – specialists of our company will select for you the most convenient and advantageous multimodal transportations including peculiarities of every outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo, points of entrainment and places of delivery.
Advantage of experience for multimodal transportations
With the help of multimodal transportations outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo could be delivered efficiently and promptly almost to every point of the world. But multimodal transportations need a high congruence in actions of all participants of transportation process and an experience of the stuff in all business-processes connected with outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo transportation:
An experience in handling operations in different kinds of transport and also in peculiarities of transshipment at transfer points from one kind of transport to another.
Knowledge of specificity of documental and escort work in the sphere of outsized (out-of-gauge) cargo transportations by all kinds of transport, provision of appropriate paper work for a fast transportation along all route
An accurate control in the points of cargo transmission from one kind of transport to another
A location of a sender or a recipient doesn’t influence on our work, because carrying out multimodal transportations, we work with the network of agents, freight forwarders and carriers in different regions of Russia and Europe. Shift a concern about transport forwarding on “SpecBaltTrans” shipping company. And a time, which will become free you could use to conclude new contracts.
«SpecBaltTrans» - abnormal transportations, transportations of oversize and heavy cargoes Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Naberezhnaya Obvodnogo Canala, 138/101, office 301 Phone: +7 (812) 973-4-120
