Specifics of transportation
Multimodal transportation – integrated service of cargo delivery from Asian countries to Russia using two or more modes of transportation. We deliver by sea, road or rail. Our own fleet of containers allows us to ensure prompt delivery of different types of cargoes reliably, safely and in optimal time.
Multimodal transportation is required in the following cases:
- There is no direct connection between the desired logistics cities;
- Other delivery methods are not suitable in terms of conditions, prices, terms.
To realize multimodal routes SPIKO GROUP specialists use a variety of delivery routes – by sea, airplane, train or motor transport. They calculate multimodal transportation, taking into account the economic benefits of the customer and select the fastest and most reliable ways of delivery of goods.
The key advantage of multimodal transportation from SPIKO GROUP for customers is full control of cargo delivery by logisticians, it is only necessary to execute a contract and draw up a route – from the place of loading to the arrival of the cargo at the customer’s warehouse.
All issues with paperwork, transportation, storage, loading and unloading, as well as tracking the cargo and its safety during the route are taken care of by a personal logistics manager.
Types of multimodal transportation
Multimodal routes happen:
- Domestic – when shipments are delivered within the country;
- International – when cargo is transported both to and from other countries.
International multimodal transportation from SPIKO GROUP goes through the countries of Asia and may include crossing borders of several countries and different variants of container transportation.
For example, multimodal transportation from the factory in China by car to the port, from the port by sea to Vladivostok, and from there by car to the railway station and train to the city of destination, from where again by car “to the door” of the customer.
Multimodal transportation in Russia is no less relevant due to the territorial remoteness of delivery regions and the lack of direct routes from suppliers to customers.
The route directly depends on the conditions of the order – delivery terms, transportation capabilities, cargo value, availability of additional tasks in the form of consolidation and storage of cargo, customs clearance and outsourcing of foreign economic activity.
Types of cargo and modes of transportation
Our own fleet of containers allows us to transport cargo by any convenient means of transport for realization of the necessary route:
Attracted transport on the most favorable terms for the customer, direct contracts with ports, forwarding and delivery of cargoes to the port or railway stations in Russia and China allow SPIKO GROUP logisticians to provide both popular and non-standard routes for delivery of goods in the most optimal time.
Multimodal container transportation allows you to transport any type of cargo, including prefabricated cargo, as well as fully provide import of goods from Asia for customers.
What the cost of multimodal transportation depends on
The cost of multimodal logistics is always individualized. Calculation of the cost depends on the type and volume of cargo, the number of containers of the cargo destination, the length of the route, transport involved in the implementation of logistics, the number of transshipments from one transport to another, as well as additional services such as customs clearance, certification, consolidation, freight forwarding.
Customs clearance in multimodal transportation. Organization of multimodal transportation involves customs clearance and cargo declaration within the framework of the contract.
SPIKO GROUP logisticians prepare for the client accompanying and authorization documents for goods, customs declaration and provide customs payments for each customs control point along the route. The company’s forwarders check the cargo and the correctness of its registration and release it into the voyage.
Procedure when ordering multimodal logistics
SPIKO GROUP undertakes all processes of transportation of cargo to the destination point taking into account all movements and changes of modes of transport, storage in warehouses and its picking and marking.
Responsibility for delivery is spelled out and assigned to the executors in a special transportation document – a multimodal bill of lading.
To order the service of multimodal transportation in Moscow in SPIKO GROUP you need:
- Leave a request on the site, where you specify the regions of delivery, description of the goods and the desired delivery time.
- Together with the manager on the request to make the most optimal route, taking into account modes of transportation, places of reception and consolidation of the cargo.
- Receive an estimate of the cost of transportation services, taking into account the peculiarities of transportation: dimensions of the cargo, temperature mode of transportation.
- Approve and sign a contract for multimodal transportation services.
Then logisticians organize the delivery according to the multimodal logistics plan, track the location of the container around the clock, help in passing customs control.
Advantages of multimodal transportation with SPIKO GROUP
- Own containers – which allows to provide any volume of transportation by different modes of transportation.
- A personal manager overseeing all multimodal communication processes throughout the entire delivery cycle.
- Partnerships with ports and rail terminals in Russia and Asia, which helps to provide customers with the fastest and most profitable multimodal routes.
- Own warehouses for storage and consolidation of cargoes on the territory of China.
- Freight forwarding – all stages of cargo inspection, consolidation, loading and release are carried out by the company’s employees.
- Customs clearance of goods with the possibility of certification in the Russian Federation.
- Insurance services in international insurance companies.
- Flexibility of multimodal logistics – in case of complications of transportation by one mode of transport, we promptly change it to another and deliver the goods on time.
- Tracking of shipments en route 24/7.
Multimodal logistics from SPIKO GROUP is a comprehensive service that combines all necessary procedures for cargo delivery from Asia and across Russia, you only need to coordinate the route and prepare documents for the cargo.
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