Sea Freight
When you do a research on cargo understanding and logistics management principles, you will see that transport systems are offered with different options.
If you want the product you produce or the product you want to send or any document or commodity or a chemical substance or any substance to reach a country, the systems you can choose will consist of options such as sea, air, land.
One of the popular options preferred today is maritime transport. What is maritime transport? It means carrying out the transfer process between ports via sea routes, transporting the products, sending them to the desired location at the desired time.
It is a work of complete professionalism. Services must be provided by professional teams in all kinds of issues such as the times to be given, the transactions to be made, international transactions and so on. It is possible to bring different load options to the agenda and to send different systems from a certain point to another point.
As it is known, there are approximately 4,600 ports worldwide. Of these 4,600 ports, 100 ports are of great importance in the global sense. The term maritime transport means the provision of regular transport services and logistics services between these ports.
What are the types of cargo in maritime transport?
As in road transport or air transport, it will be seen that certain packages, systems and applications are valid in maritime transport. What are the types of cargo in maritime transport? It is possible to answer the question in general terms as follows:
- Import and export transports with FCL and LCL containers.
- All kinds of transit transports with transshipment in Turkey.
- Special container transport such as opentop or flatrack, reefer or ISO tank.
- Domestic distribution services.
- Bulk and general cargo transport.
- Door-to-door logistics transport.
- Industrial goods transport.
- Within the expression of cargo types given with general headings; It is possible to find all kinds of products you can think of.
- In the expression of industrial material transport, raw materials, cement, iron, steel products can be found.
- Door-to-door transport services may include all kinds of project transport, customs clearance services.
- Bulk cargo and general cargo transport may include all soil, cement and similar materials you can think of.
- In the understanding of general cargo transport, all kinds of transport, including personnel, including animals, which are considered to be transported by sea, may be on the agenda.
- Again, it may also be possible to include valuable ores, steels, irons, vehicles, construction machinery and similar instruments within the general transport service concept.