Sea freight - this is the transport of goods and people carried on ships on the sea lanes.

  Benefits shipping

  · Shipping, carried out with the help of modern vessels of different tonnage, can significantly reduce transport costs of shipping large quantities of general cargo.

· Marine transportation is a safe and economical means of transportation over long distances.

· High quality maritime transport contributes to a unified system of international standards

Thanks · development of port infrastructure and the availability of modern warehouse facilities around the world, shipping today are carried out expeditiously.

· Often shipping is used for the delivery of modular cargoes, as sea transport demand in the multi-modal circuits.
 

Компания ABCTRANS arranges shipping. Complex maritime services includes:

     * Self-propelled carriage of cargo: bulk cargo and heavy cargo
     * Shipping cargo special Flat Rack and Open Top containers
     * Development of optimal shipping routes through the main sea trade ports in the world
     * The solution of complex problems of integration of transport: sea freight and road transport of goods to transportation, storage and handling of bulky goods
     * Customs clearance of cargoes at ports
     * Truck freight to and from seaports
     * Cargo insurance

International shipping - it is one of the components of a multimodal transport. Sea transportation of cargo are of three types:

     * Container shipping - that is, cargo container traffic by sea;
     * Ro-Ro shipping - transportation equipment, which can "roll their own wheels - cars, tractors, harvesters and so on.;
     * Dry bulk shipping of goods - transportation of large quantities of bulk products such as cement, fertilizers, coal and so on.

Ro-ro and bulk shipping of interest to only a narrow circle of very large producers, where the turnover of millions or thousands of tons of cars.

High demand on the market is the maritime transport of cargo in containers. Container shipping is used in the case between the countries there is no land communication, for example between the U.S. and Russia or China and Russia. Also, due to the fact that the maritime transport of goods are the cheapest, they are used to reduce the cost of transportation. For example, from Spain to Russia, the cargo can be delivered using road transport, but the cost of carriage by sea is almost 1.5 times lower. This type of carriage by sea is suitable for companies who have a steady flow of goods, because in contrast to the automotive, shipping takes approximately 2 times more time.

Sea container transportation by sea or ocean lines.

Sea transportation of cargo are of two types:

     * Deep sea - ocean transport
     * Short sea - sea transport for short distances

International shipping - it's part of a multi-modal transport, ie transport of the same goods by different modes of transport. Pure marine transportation can only be called transportation from port to port, for example, from Shanghai to St. Petersburg. In the case if the goods after unloading at the port of St. Petersburg should continue, for example, in Moscow, for ground shipping is not used maritime transport, as a railway or road transport. Accordingly, the transport from Shanghai to Moscow uses 2 types of transport (sea and road) and this is called multi-modal transportation.

Depending on the type, physical properties and quantity of goods, it is delivered in various containers:

     * Standard 20 and 40 feet containers;
     * 20 and 40 foot containers, raised cubic capacity H / C (High Cube and Pallet Wide);
     * 20 and 40 feet from the open roof (Open Top);
     * 20 and 40 feet with a flat frame (Flat Rack);
     * 20 and 40-foot refrigerated containers (Reefer);
     * 45 foot containers.