By Land, Sea, and Air: The Different Modes of Freight Shipping

Freight shipping is the means of transporting freight and cargo to different places through various transportation modes. There are three basic types of transportation, depending whether the freight travels by land, air, or water. Each of these modes has their own specific technical, commercial, and operational distinctions.

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Water Transportation

Transporting cargo by means of the sea has been around for thousands of years. Goods or cargo can travel from one country to another, often with the benefit of containerization. Merchant shipping alone carries almost 90% of the international trade. They carry everything from food to gadgets to shoes, and even raw materials like ores and oil.

Difference between mother vessel and feeder vessel Feeder vessel is normally small in size compared to Mother vessel. Feeder vessels serves between smaller ports and main major ports. In other words, feeder vessels feeds cargo to mother vessel from smaller ports to large ports for exports and from major main ports to smaller ports for imports. Compared to mother vessel, feeder vessel is slow. Average capacity of a feeder vessel is 300 to 500 TEUs (20 containers). Feeder vessels serves short distance between either between smaller ports or between smaller ports to major ports.

Mother vessel is big in size compared to feeder vessel. Mother vessels only serve between major big ports. Mother vessels have the capacity to carry thousands of containers. Mother vessel calls only main ports. The mother vessel covers large distance compared to feeder vessel. Difference between FCL and LCL Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Category : For Beginners This is common terms in Export and Import What is the term LCL. What is the term FCL and what is the difference between LCL and FCL. FCL means Full Container Load and LCL means Less Container Load. If an exporter has goods to accommodate in one full container load, he books an FCL (Full Container Load) to stuff his cargo. In an FCL cargo, the complete goods in the said container owns by one shipper. In an FCL owned by one shipper, the cargo in the container need not have fully loaded cargo in the container. Let the cargo be half loaded or quarter loaded container, if booked by one shipper under one shipment, the said shipment is called FCL shipment. Under an LCL cargo, where in a shipper does not have enough goods to accommodate in one full

container, he books cargo with a consolidator to console his goods along with goods of other shippers. This type of shipment is called LCL shipment. The said consolidator arranges a fully loaded container (FCL), and consoles the shipments of other shippers and deliver each shipment to final destination by separating each shipment at final destination.