Sea freight transport confidently occupies a leading position in terms of the amount of goods transported, it is a practical and cheap solution that allows you to deliver goods on intercontinental routes or from one point on the coast to another. Sea transportation allows you to organize the delivery of various cargoes: oversized, heavy or those that require special handling, and cargo in containers.
Sea transportation is carried out using several types of transport and, as a rule, is used for the delivery of goods over long distances.
Advantages of sea transportation over other modes of transport:
Economy:
The delivery of goods by sea loses to other modes of transport in terms of delivery speed, but it significantly reduces transportation costs, which means that it saves the budget.
Minimum risks:
In 98% of cases, there is no theft, damage, or loss of the cargo being transported.
Large load capacity:
Allows you to transport several consignments at once.
Regularity of transportation:
The movement of ships takes place strictly according to the schedule of the port of departure, regardless of the degree of loading of the ship.
“ROSER” LLC provides the following services in the field of sea transportation:
Large-tonnage (gross weight of 10 tons and more) 20- and 40-foot containers:
- universal;
- refrigerators;
- with an open top (OT – awning, HT – removable top);
- platform;
- tanks or tank-containers (volume: 24 cubic meters, carrying capacity: 32.6 tons);
- for packaged goods (convenient loading of euro pallets in width in 2 rows);
- for bulk cargo (manhole, with bottom self-unloading);
- containers of increased volume (20, 40 and 45 feet, volume: 36, 76 and 86 cubic meters).
Types of vessels for freight:
- for dry (general) cargo (universal: transportation of boxes, bales, barrels; bulk carriers: bulk and bulk cargo; specialized: timber trucks, refrigerators, container trucks, lighter trucks, roller (ro-ro), ferries);
- bulk: tankers; gas carriers; chemical carriers
Standard sizes of vessels:
- Handysize: draft up to 10 m.;
- Handymax: draft up to 12 m.;
- Supramax: draft up to 13 m.;
- Panamax: draft up to 15 m.
Feeder Class — 1700–2500 TEU
Sub-Panamax Class — 2500–4000 TEU
Handysize Class — 260–1000 TEU
Handymax Class — 1000–1700 TEU
Panamax Class — 4000–7000 TEU
Post-Panamax Class — 7000–13000 TEU
Advantages of container transportation:
- Cargo storage. All containers are sealed after loading the goods. This prevents theft of goods during loading and unloading and overloading at transit points. In addition, the container is a reliable protection against weather phenomena and possible damage for the cargo being transported.
- Saving time. Since the change of the mode of transport occurs by overloading the entire container. Sea transportation of any cargo involves the mandatory use of rail or road transport for the delivery of goods inland. The container allows you to transship all goods as quickly as possible.
- Financial benefit. Minimum costs are required for processing goods (container and packaging).
- One-time delivery of a large quantity of goods. The large capacity of containers allows the customer to reduce the cost of delivery by collecting sufficiently large batches of goods.
- Due to extensive work experience and a large agency network, “ROSER” LLC carries out high-quality transportation of all types of cargo in all directions.
By cooperating with “ROSER” company, you get a reliable business partner, a specialist in the field of logistics and forwarding for the full cycle of transportation (door to door). We work at competitive rates with an individual approach to each client. Since the company’s policy is focused on long-term cooperation, we guarantee reliability and interest in each order.