Sea Freight: Effective Solution For Import-Export Enterprises

1, Benefits of Sea Freight

Sea freight brings many benefits to businesses, including:

1. Cost Savings: Compared to air freight, sea freight has significantly lower costs, especially for large-volume and long-distance shipments. This helps businesses optimize logistics costs and improve competitiveness.
2. Diverse Transport Capabilities: Ships can transport a variety of goods, from bulk cargo such as agricultural products and minerals to containerized cargo such as consumer goods and industrial equipment.
3. Wide Network: The seaport system covers all continents, facilitating the transportation of goods to most countries in the world.
4. Cargo Safety: Goods transported by sea are better protected than other methods thanks to international standard containers and security measures at the port.

2, Sea Freight Process 

The sea freight process usually includes the following main steps:

1. Preparing Goods: Packing, classifying, labeling and completing customs procedures for export goods.
   Booking & Signing Contract: Choosing the appropriate shipping line, shipping route and signing the shipping contract with full terms.
2. Inland Transportation: Transporting goods from your warehouse to the loading port by truck or train.
3. Export Procedures: Carrying out customs procedures, quarantine, and checking the quality of goods at the port of departure.
4. Sea Freight: Goods are loaded onto ships and transported to the destination port according to the scheduled schedule.
5. Import Procedures: Carrying out customs procedures, quarantine, and checking the quality of goods at the port of arrival.
6. Inland Transportation: Transporting goods from the port to the recipient's warehouse by truck or train.

3, Factors affecting maritime transport

There are many factors that affect the efficiency of sea transport, including:

1. Weather: Bad weather conditions can slow down shipping and affect the safety of goods.
2. Seaport: The quality of port infrastructure also affects shipping time and costs.
3. Customs Regulations: Customs regulations in each country can be different, affecting customs clearance times.

4, Current Trends in Sea Transport

Nowadays, maritime transport is witnessing many new trends:

1. Application of Technology 4.0: Information technology, IoT, blockchain are increasingly applied in transport management, journey tracking, process optimization and transparency enhancement.
2. Developing Green Fleet: The trend of using clean fuel, environmentally friendly ships and reducing emissions is being focused on by major shipping lines in the world.
3. Enhancing Competitiveness: Improving port infrastructure, enhancing loading and unloading capacity, shortening customs clearance time and simplifying administrative procedures are key factors to enhance the competitiveness of the maritime transport industry.

5, Vietnam Post Logistics 

Currently, Vietnam Post Logistics has been and is one of the leading units in Vietnam, providing comprehensive logistics solutions, in which, the sea freight service is outstanding. With outstanding advantages, Vietnam Post Logistics is confident to provide customers with the best service quality.

- Safety and commitment are always affirmed by the reputation of a State-owned company

- The most reasonable US export freight rate in the market

- The best Asian import freight rate in the market

- Easy customs clearance and customs clearance procedures

- Enthusiastic and professional staff

Sea freight is an effective solution for businesses in the import and export sector. With low costs, large transport capacity and many other benefits, sea freight will continue to play an important role in the global supply chain. To make the most of these benefits, businesses need to master the shipping process and update new trends in the industry.

Please contact us for the best advice and support in the field of sea transport!

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