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The Transport of Marchandises is a regulated economic activity, at the same time by each country and with the international level.

Definition

The natural person or morals who transports goods is called road haulage operator. He uses:

Of the means of transport called of the vehicles (vehicles Automobile S, Train S, Aircraft S, Ship S,….)
Of the Infrastructure S, made up themselves:

of the transportation routes (Road S, railways, channels, River S,…) that it borrows and who define the means of transport:

Terrestrial: Road transport and rail-bound Transport
Maritime
By water ways (river transport or by channels)
Aaérospatial (Air transport and space Transport)
Transport combined, or multimode or multi-modal

of installations (carparks, port S, Airport S,…) intended to tranship the goods or the vehicles, to maintain the vehicles or to park them, lodge finally the drivers of the vehicles, and works of art, intended to make them cross natural obstacles (Bridge S, Viaduct S, Tunnel S, lock S…)

History and importance

Goods transport was in the beginning even Commerce, him even gradually a big factor of the evolution of great civilizations.

He since then plays an economic role whose importance does nothing but grow. For example at the XXe century, the development of aviation, that of the haulage and the highways and the invention of the Container gave him fresh impulse and placed it in the middle of the economic Mondialisation.

to see Logistic Transport,

Regulation

The contract of goods transport

The contract of goods transport is a commercial contract. It is materialized by a document named differently according to the means of transport.

In Road transport of goods, the document names legally freight bill (in the past or usually receipt of delivery, delivery order,…) ;
In Air transport of goods, the document names consignment note (L.T.A.).
In Maritime transport of goods, the document names maritime bill of lading

The contract of goods transport generally mentions what is transported (category of goods, weight, volumes), the places of loading and unloading, the name of the conveyer and that of the Transport commissioner, of the mentions concerning the dangerosity, the sums to be boxed, of the particular instructions of delivery, the Incoterm S…

The type of transport

According to the membership of the means of transport (vehicle, driver), the type of goods transport is different. Goods transport is called:

Transport on own account, by setting up its own means, made up of a vehicle and a driver, even rented of exclusiveness, to transport its own goods, or goods of which one with the guard, provided that transport is only one accessory or a complement with the principal activity relating to the known as goods (transformation, for example).
Carriage for hire or reward or public transport (that one should not confuse with Public transport), by setting up its own means, or of the average sub-contracts, to transport the goods of others.

Outside contributors and intermediate

Goods transport mobilizes specialized speakers, generally commercial:

the Transport commissioner, whose role is to implement the conveyers, with the help of the payment of a commission. In the road transport, the transport commissioner can sub-contract (for more than 15% of sound Turnover) the transport which is entrusted to him.
Transit S or agents in charge to carry out the operations of setting under Customs or taking out of bond, i.e. declarations of customs for the account of others, possibly of the particular complementary declarations, on behalf of the shippers, of the conveyers, the commission agents or the recipients.

Integration of goods transport in the supply chain

See Logistic.

Statistical data

Transport interior (France)

The site Given and Statistical of the Ministry for transport, the equipment, tourism and the sea provides statistical data on the activities of goods transport.

Lexicon

Lexicon of French Association for logistics (ASLOG)

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