Surprisingly, the answer to this question is – “probably not”. However, it is very likely that they will own a fleet of motor vehicles mostly comprised of trucks, vans and tractors capable of hauling shipping containers (usually of 20 foot or 40 foot long containers).
Shipment
In today’s commercial parlance, shipment is the term applied whenever a business concerns dispatches its product to those who have purchased it. Even a software company “ships” its product as soon as a customer downloads it online. Companies who always deliver their goods by courier service still say that an order has been shipped.
Freight
Whenever the output of a business is of a size or volume that requires the product to be packed up in crates or boxes and physically shipped, the consignment is referred to as freight. Freight may be shipped using the company’s own transport or they may engage a freight haulage company to carry it away. The logistics of volume and distance usually decide which shipment method to use.
Ocean Freight
If the purchaser for output from a facility somewhere in United States is located in a foreign country then the freight shipment will usually have to involve either an ocean going cargo vessel or an airplane. The choice will be made partly on a cost basis but it is also influenced by the urgency of the arrival date in the purchaser’s own country.
Typically, heavy weight and/or large volume freight will be shipped on cargo carrying ships. The ideal way to do this is for the producing company to book a container van in which his cargo will “sail” from a suitable port in the USA (not necessarily Miami FL) to a suitable port near to the purchaser. It is still possible to have freight shipped outside of a container – known as loose cargo but the practice is not much used these days.
When the freight from the producer in Miami FL is insufficient to warrant booking a whole container for its transportation, it is possible to arrange to have your cargo consolidated with someone else’s and, effectively, share the space inside a container.
Freight Companies
The role of the Freight Companies In Miami FL is to sort out all the logistics involved to get a client’s freight through to their customers overseas. They sort out matters such as:-
- Collection of freight from its production site. This can be pre-packed in suitable crates and taken away to load into a container or, an empty container is sent to the producer and loaded on the spot.
- Getting the consignment accepted onto a suitable vessel and then getting it into the port and cleared for loading.
- Generating all required export and import documentation.
- Unloading at final destination and clearance into that country.
- Transportation from unloading port to buyer’s nominated place.
Freight Companies In Miami FL will do the same but in reverse if you are importing goods from overseas.
You will need the services of Freight Companies For Miami FL whenever you plan to send goods by sea to a foreign destination. Hawk Express are amongst the best in the State for providing such services. Check them out at hawkxinc.com.
