The transport of goods, which is part of the so-called international trade logistics plays a key role in foreign trade. As the availability of more efficient transport and adequate infrastructure for this, thus speeding up the international trade activities and its products and relationships with international partners to increase.
While trying to increase the supply of transport services is not the most appropriate tool to achieve significant changes in trade flows, it is increasingly important for countries to reduce their transportation costs, they have gained importance as a factor influencing the competitiveness of exports, compared with tariffs. Within the final price of a product, the component of transport is increasing due to the globalization of production, not only transports the final product or commodity from its source to its destination, but more and more inputs are transported from other countries, increasing global demand for transport services.
International freight transport has several key components to achieve better performance, among them we quote:
• The infrastructure, which includes natural or artificial channels (rivers, lakes, oceans, aerospace, rail, roads) and terminals.
• Operations, composed of the modes of mobilization that can be unimodal or multimodal, ie involving more than half of transport, operating units (cars, trucks, boats, aircraft) and operators of units.
• The services include both individual and corporate providers (carriers, shipping conferences or air) and individual or corporate users (importers, exporters, traders, or advice of users). (more…)
