Sea Transportation and Its benefits.

Transportation of goods in a transport industry take place via various mediums of land, sea and air. Land and air transportation is easy and quick and used for delivering goods of limited volume. Owing to its speed, such transportation is relatively expensive when compared to sea transportation which is chosen when other methods are prohibitively expensive or when the volume of shipments is large. Sea transport is the cheapest as it takes the maximum time and effort. However, sea transportation is also the most cost effective as it usually includes the fee for loading and unloading the goods in the port.

For Sea Freight Forwarding, both standard containers and non-standard containers are used for consolidated goods and oversized goods. However, for international shipping, there are different types of containers used called the unified containers as these special unification greatly simplifies the calculations performed in different countries and customs clearance procedures. Shipped goods can also be stored at specially equipped warehouses at the ports if temporary storage of goods is required.

As a matter of fact, sea transportation can also be classified as a part of multimodal transportation. This is because there are a number of different delivery methods used along with sea transportation. Such multimode delivery goes well with consolidated goods, even though it can be used for any other kind of transportation. For all transport service in India, shipping company takes all responsibility for insurance of transported goods, control of all transportation stages, and preparation of the necessary documentation.