Sea freight to USA, broadly defined as all sea-related transportation business activities. But the development to the present, where we mention the sea transport, the general meaning for the sea transportation, such as bulk and general cargo transportation, container transport and other sea freight from China to USA.
The basic elements of sea freight to USA include: ships, routes, ports.
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Classification of sea freight to USA routes
According to the mode of ship operation
- Regular routes, refers to the use of fixed ships, according to the fixed schedule and port navigation, and relatively fixed tariffs operating passenger and cargo transportation business routes.
- Non-scheduled routes are routes chosen temporarily according to the needs of freight transportation. Vessel, ship date, docking, port are not fixed, is to operate bulk, low-priced cargo transportation business is the main route.
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According to the distance of the voyage points
- OCEAN-GOING SHIPPING LINE, refers to the voyage distance is farther, the ship sailing across the ocean transportation routes, such as the Far East to Europe and the Americas route.
- NEAR-SEA SHIPPING LINE, refers to the country’s ports to neighboring countries between the ports of the sea transport routes collectively. China’s customary route in the region east of the port of Aden, Asia and Oceania route known as the near-oceanic route.
- COASTAL SHIPPING LINE, refers to the sea transportation routes between the ports along the coast of the country, such as Shanghai / Guangzhou, Qingdao / Dalian and so on.
According to the scope of navigation
- Atlantic shipping line.
- The Pacific Ocean route
- Indian Ocean route
- Global routes
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Main sea freight to USA types
General cargo ship transportation
- Concept: general cargo ship transportation, also known as general cargo ship, it appeared the earliest, but also the most basic kind of cargo ship, mainly used to ship a variety of groceries.
- Characteristics: The outstanding feature of general cargo ship is that it has strong adaptability to the cargo type and terminal conditions.
- Disadvantages: its shortcomings are loading and unloading efficiency is not high, the batch of groceries is not large, resulting in the lower deadweight tonnage of such ships, generally in about 20,000 tons.
Bulk carrier transportation
Concept: Bulk carriers are specialized in shipping grain, coal, ore and other bulk bulk cargo ships. This type of ship structure is characterized by more for the tail type single deck ship, the hatch is also larger, and more than not with cargo equipment.
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Container ship transportation
Concept: container refers to the main shipment of containerized goods, used to specialize in the shipment of uniform specifications of the standard container ship. At present, the container ship mainly refers to the full container ship. All cargo compartments and the upper deck of such ships are loaded with containers, which is suitable for the route with sufficient and stable cargo sources.
Advantages:
- Fast loading and unloading speed and short time in harbor. Therefore, the ship can greatly save the time of stopping in harbor due to loading and unloading operations.
- Strong transportation capacity. Container ship tonnage and speed are higher, so that the transport capacity of container ships to improve.
- Low labor intensity. Due to the change of loading and unloading methods, the loading and unloading work has been mechanized, thus the labor intensity of workers can be greatly reduced, and the number of workers can be greatly reduced.
- Improvement of port throughput capacity. Because of the high loading and unloading efficiency, the ship’s time in the port is short, so that the utilization rate of the port and the throughput capacity can be increased.
- Less cargo loss and cargo difference. Because the goods are loaded in the container, it avoids the damage and difference of the packaged “general cargo” in the process of transportation.
