Transportation through oceans is as old as the human society. It is the single source that can interlink the whole world. Though there are land routes and Air routes used for transportation, but oceans and seas have been the best medium to move. As human society developed the method of transportation changed, but water is the natural source for transportation. For sea cargo transportation, sea traffic or ocean routes are considered the best of all.
Sea cargo is always cheaper than any other source of transportation of goods and cargo. It is economical and safe medium to transportation goods from one part of the world to the rest of the world. Mother vessels are big enough that your cargo or goods accommodate well with secured manners separately. There is a massive place to store goods and cargo according to type of cargo, so special method of shunting your cargo or goods are packed in their family.
In Air cargo, it is not possible because lack of place. Once your cargo or goods are on board then you need not to worry about it because it is the safest medium of transportation of goods. Now ships are with good storage capacity and gain good speed so it is the time to put off or peal of the tag of slow transportation from sea cargo.
Containers are of different sizes and with different criteria. Selection of container for your goods is important because your cargo may need temperature controlled container, your cargo or goods may require open container or it may require sliding doors’ container it totally depends on the items those are transported in the container.
This decision is made on container terminal that what type of container is required for the shipment of cargo. Sometimes, shipper requests for some special arrangements for their cargo goods, so modifications in container’s sizes, accessories and shapes are made accordingly to the requests of the clients.
Air cargo or land transportation used for cargo business is very expensive if we compare it with sea cargo freights and charges. Sea cargo is considered to be the best medium all over the world to transport things from one destination to the other destination in bulk. The reason behind the cheapest rate of sea cargo is the tendency of clients towards this transportation. When a container is half full the freight rate is high but with the passage of time, when it is completely filled by the cargo items and goods for different destinations the freight rate comes down, so clients want to book some place in the container that is nearly to be filled up to its capacity to get the cheapest freight rate.
Once cargo by ships or sea was considered the slowest medium in transportation but now it is changed completely. Different new canals, channels and routes made by human beings are really helpful to shorten the distance now the travel of a month can be achieved in weeks. It is because of short transportation routes those are safe and give easy, good and quick access to the destinations. Ships are also important. Big and huge engines are used in big vessels which are speedy in performance. Now we have giant in our oceans and seas to carry bulk of cargo goods from one place to the other place of the world. By the help of these new routes time can be saved or oceanic transportation has become cheaper than before.
In the past, there was no technology to give awareness about upcoming weather conditions, many of the ships destroyed during their voyages. Sometimes container vessels hit by any storm on the way it had become the cause of unnecessary delay and sometimes huge loss was reported by weather conditions. Now we have well sophisticated system about weather conditions to warn us about weather upcoming. Now from one destination to the ending destination, cargo vessels are monitored via satellite and each and every minute fluctuation in the weather conditions is delivered to the ships to save them from any disaster and loss.
Ship or cargo vessels are in the oceans or seas. They linger on harbors and decks. Stay there for loading and un- loading takes the new route or continuing their route to their destinations. Trained staff is always there on decks of different ports of the world placed there by different cargo companies of the world like Pakistan Cargo 4 U to assist their cargo vessels and get the most of the cargo goods for their logistics. They booked cargo goods on spot.
Each ship is given the best facilities during this process of loading and un- loading on decks or in harbors. Sometimes big vessels or big ships can’t move directly to the deck and remain stay in deep water away from the decks then this staff maintains or arranges small boats or ships to load or unload the mother vessels. In cargo business, trained staff of harbors and decks is of great importance.
Containers are the vessels in which your cargo or goods are transported from one part of the world to the other. Container terminal is a place where most of the empty containers are piled up or even loaded containers are also there for boarding. It is the world in the world. Huge and mammoth machinery are working and loading unloading of containers are going on with great perfection.
When the whole ship is ready with different types of thousands containers for the different part of the world with different items to their destinations then we feel the importance of container terminals. Without them, this mega business can’t work properly.