In the context of today's developing economy, transportation is a very familiar service, widely used, serving the needs of production and transportation of goods. However, not everyone clearly understands the concept of what transportation services are, or currently, what types of popular services they include. The article that we share below will help you clarify these issues!
What is a transportation service?
To answer the question of what a transportation service is, we first need to briefly understand the concept of transportation.
Transportation is the process of applying force to one or more objects to move them from one location to another, serving the production and daily living needs of people. When the productive forces developed, commercial activities began to appear, the demand for exchanging and transporting goods also increased. To meet these needs, transportation services were born.
Thus, to put it simply, transportation services are economic activities of transporting goods, taking place between the carrier, providing the service (subject) and the person whose goods need to be transported, using the service, and responsible for payment (object). This service is performed by many different modes of transportation such as: air, rail, waterway, road and pipeline transportation.
5 popular transportation services today
To meet the maximum needs of production, business, and transportation of goods, transportation services are currently provided in many different forms. Of which, the 5 most popular types include:
International transportation services
International transportation is a service of transporting goods between two or more countries, meaning that the delivery point and the receiving point will be in two or more different countries.
This is one of the essential types of services in today's modern society, serving the needs of transporting and trading international goods. Thereby, meeting the purchasing needs of consumers, promoting the development of production, circulation of goods, promoting the development of the socio-economy and trade between countries.
Domestic transport service
As its name suggests, domestic freight service is the delivery and transportation of goods between locations and provinces within a country or territory. This is considered one of the important links in the supply chain of current logistics services, playing a role in strongly promoting the economic development of regions.
Truck rental service
If you need to use a truck to transport goods in a short period of time but do not want to use truck transportation services, this is the optimal choice. Outstanding advantages that truck rental service brings:
Quickly meet transportation needs.
Save investment costs for purchasing and maintaining vehicles.
Limit risks and costs arising during the transportation process.
Fast freight transportation time, meeting required progress.
Meet the needs of transporting various volumes of goods, from light goods, heavy goods, bulky goods or oversized goods.
In addition, truck rental services are also applied to meet the needs of delivery during the time frames when trucks are often restricted from moving.
Container transportation service
Container is a type of transport tool that is durable, fixed, and can be used many times. With a large rectangular box design made of steel, hollow inside, the container can hold a large volume of goods. This provides convenience in transporting by one or more different means, without the need to load and unload goods at ports along the way.
Container transportation service is the activity of transporting the above containers to related loading and unloading areas or receiving locations, helping to bring many benefits to the owner of the goods such as:
Better protection of goods, minimizing the situation of damaged, contaminated or stolen goods.
Significantly save time for checking and counting goods as well as costs such as packaging, transportation, insurance, etc.
Simplify intermediate procedures for domestic goods transportation and operating costs during circulation.
Customs declaration service
Customs declaration is one of the mandatory procedures that individuals/businesses need to carry out when they want to export/import goods out of national borders at airports, seaports, and border gates.
This procedure is quite complicated, requiring the person performing it to have certain knowledge of regulations, documents, and various related documents, creating many difficulties. At that time, the customs declaration service is the optimal choice, helping you solve declaration problems quickly and effectively.
Features of freight transport services at PMC LOGISTICS
PMC LOGISTICS is one of the prestigious and professional freight transport service providers in Phu My city, Ba Ria Vung Tau today, including many types of services, meeting diverse transportation needs with many different means of transport.
With the criteria of always putting customer interests first, aiming to become the leading freight transport unit in Vietnam, freight transport services at PMC LOGISTICS have many outstanding features as follows:
Commit to on-time delivery, ensuring the quality of goods.
100% refund of the value of goods if there is an incident during the delivery process such as damage, loss,... d
