Intermodal Transportation

Intermodal transportation is being or involving transportation by more than one form of carrier during a single journey moving a shipment from origin to destination. It is often said international transportation is intermodal transportation because so many goods moving from one country to another involve the use of multiple modes of carriers. Virtually everything moving across an ocean will involve truck or rail carriers for product pickup and delivery and an air or ocean carrier for the inhaul portion of the trip.

The following is a quick example of utilizing more than one modes transportation to ship freight from origin to destination. A truck moves an empty piece of equipment to a shipper to pickup a load , the equipment loaded with freight and then taken by truck to a rail road yard. Loaded equipment is put onto a train and railed to its destination, and the load is taken off the train and deliver by truck to the customer equipment is unloaded and now ready for another load.

Load match is a example company focusses on both domestic and international intermodal transportation of equipment between trucks railroads and ocean lines. Those in the intermodal industry will confirm there are many variables in this process. However, the more profitable it can be when equipment goes but empty, comes back empty or is sitting idle the company can market the avaibility online to improve utilization of time and equipment. 

Intermodal services offers a range of cost effectiveness, streamlined services that provide the flexibility to control and manage your goods and improve your bottom line. Large or small can deserved big time benefit : door to door services- truck like service at a fraction of the cost of traditional tracking methods, ease of business- all of the equipment will utilize and resulting in simplified load process from pick up to delivery, decrease fuel cost or consumption deliver result, state of the art technology, allowing for maximum visibility, security and services and value added like load securement and border crossing produces alleviate the burden of time-consuming.