What is sea-air intermodal transport?

By combining air and sea freight solutions, you can achieve the best balance between cost and time – increasing the flexibility of your chain.
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Features Applications
Multimodal transport
Multimodal transport with air transport as the, so that the arrival time requirements of the shipper for the intermodal transport of sea cargo can be as precise as "× day × hour × minute" as general air transport
Transportation cost performance ratio
Less than the total cost of sea transportation, cheaper than the total cost of air transportation.
Peak Season Advantages
Solving the problem of direct air cargo capacity the peak season.
Limitations of consigned goods
The combined transport of sea and combines the characteristics of large volume and low cost of sea transport and the speed and time requirements of air transport, which can organically combine goods with different volumes and different transport time requirements
Solution
With the development of e-commerce, people's requirements the timeliness of orders are becoming more and more stringent, such as next-day delivery, same-day delivery, half-day delivery, 2-hour delivery, etc E-commerce companies are gradually refreshing their own timeliness standards in order to maintain their competitiveness. Inventory of goods is also getting closer and closer to consumers, and there are more more pre-warehouses, micro-warehouses, and overseas Dark Stores (backstage stores that are not open to the public and are dedicated to fulfilling orders for online shopping). Whether it is a pre-warehouse or a backstage store, they all have several common characteristics: high turnover, small warehouse area, and order-based picking.