貨物スペースの効率利用
Road transportation is, for many businesses and suppliers, still the most beneficial means of transporting goods. Thousands of trucks loaded with full shipping containers are on their way, driving to their final location every day. What are the benefits of road transport, and when does it not have to be the most subservient way of freight shipping?
In the past few years, the world has faced one of the greatest challenges in modern history. A challenge so unusual, it has affected all of us and essentially paralyzed the whole world. Not long after the COVID–19 pandemic had passed, the world started to get back to normal, but then another strike came. The Russian–Ukrainian war affects almost every aspect of our lives, transport and logistics included.
The pandemic completely stopped much of the world’s transport. The resulting shock was caused firstly by the pandemic and now by other factors like the war in Ukraine. Its consequences altogether make us understand how important container transport is for the global economy and this is reflected through the consequences of the current prices.
It is a well-known fact that the branch of logistics is developing at an electrifying pace. Many specialists create reports and forecasts on the future of logistics. In today's article, we will take a look at the trends that are often mentioned among those that will lead the TSL sector in the near future. We will focus here on trends where the common denominator is mainly IT systems.
The health crisis produced by COVID-19 has changed the world, our economies, and habits. Among the most affected sectors are international trade and cargo and container transport.
In the first part of this three-part miniseries about shipping containers, we took a trip down memory lane, talking about the history of shipping containers. In the second part, we described the most commonly used types of shipping containers and their typical use. In today’s last part, we will also focus on the use of containers. However, this time we will take it from the other end – we will have a look at the most unique uses of intermodal containers.
In the first part of the three-part miniseries about sea containers, we took a trip down memory lane, talking about the history of shipping containers. In the second part, we will have a look at the most common types of intermodal containers and what they’re used for.
In the past, the goods used to be shipped in the form of breakbulk. Simply put, people literally threw bags with potatoes, barrels of wine, or wooden boxes of various dimensions with guns onto a horse-drawn carriage or later onto a truck. Then they drove to the nearest train station, where they had to unload the load and load it into a railway wagon. After that, the train transported the goods to the nearest port, where the goods had to be reloaded onto a ship. After arriving at the destination port, the whole process was repeated in reverse order.
