Sea Freight

Seafreight

Sea freight is the method of transporting large amounts of goods via carrier ships. Goods are packed into containers which are then loaded onto a vessel. Typically, a standard cargo ship at Interfreight Linc can carry around 18,000 containers at once, which is very cost-efficient. However, sea freight forwarding takes time, and so you cannot expect fast delivery. If your shipping item is time sensitive, you may opt for our air freight shipping instead.

Type of Cargo

General Cargo

General Cargo, also known as multi-purpose vessels, are designed to be flexible and can carry a huge variety of cargo. A flexible and highly efficient cargo handling system highly enables ts ship to carry a variety of different cargos and load and unload them within the shortest period of time. 

FCL/LCL Cargo

FCL Cargo, also known as Full Container Load, is a service whereby you purchase one or more full containers to send on a carrier ship. 

LCL Cargo, Less than Container Load, is a service where you share a container with another party who does not have a full container’s worth. Once the container reaches the destination, the content will be divided once again.

Type of Cargo Containers

New Shipping Containers

In the current market, some businesses prefer to build their own shipping containers according to their own unique specification or business purposes. 

Some of the examples are listed below: 

✔ Built to full marine specification, to manufacture with anti-corrosion purposes.

✔ Containers protected with marine grade paint.

✔ Cargo containers fitted with additional ventilation to ensure the consistency of the humidity of air in the containers.

Used Shipping Containers

Most commonly, businesses do not buy shipping containers. Instead, businesses will tend to rent containers which are guaranteed to be structurally sound, watertight and suitable for use as secure storage containers.

Often, our clients will rent shipping containers from us and often in 4 main sizes.

✔ Standard ISO shipping containers which are usually 8ft wide, 8.5ft high and 20 ft in length. These containers also come in 40 ft length which we often termed as long length cargo.

✔ Smaller shipping containers which are 10 ft and 8 ft length.

✔ Extra tall shipping containers, also called high-cube containers, which are 9.5 ft tall are also available. 

Products Eligible for Shipping

Product for General Cargo

Some of the more popular items which is shipped by general cargo are listed as below:

✔ Air cooled piston compressors

✔ Chain stoppers

✔ Deck Machinery

✔ Maritime Data Engine

✔ Water cooled piston compressors and many more!

Dangerous/ Sensitive Goods

Dangerous goods are items or materials that may have or are containing corrosive, infectious, toxic, flammable or explosive properties. These goods are often labelled or identified to be hazardous in nature and may potentially be a hazard to human and the environment’s safety and health. Hence, these products are also prohibited from being brought up to aircraft cabins. Some of the examples of dangerous goods are listed below:

✔ Paints

✔ Mercury

✔ Bleach

✔ Car batteries

✔ Pesticides

✔ Lighter

✔ Fireworks

✔ Camping gas and other products with similar properties.

Additional Services

Import/ Export Customs Clearance Globally

Aside from DGD, Interfreight Linc also offers help in acquiring import or export customs clearance worldwide. We are equipped with teams of experienced individuals who can attend to your request and provide you with assistance at any time.

Stuffing/ Unstuffing of Containers

One of the specialties for our sea freight services will always be providing stuffing and unstuffing of containers as long as our client requests for it. To those that may not be familiar with these services, stuffing is the loading of goods into a container while unstuffing is the unloading of goods from the containers.

Are you ready to ship your goods now? You can do so by dropping our specialist an email at enquiry@interfrtlog.com regarding the dimensions of your load and we will definitely try our very best to provide you with the most competitive quotation. 

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