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  What types of vehicles are typically used for road freight?  When it comes to arranging the movement of goods from one location to another, it is extremely difficult to deny the importance of freight by road .   After all, if you are looking to organise the transportation of goods almost anywhere – including if the given journey will be largely taking place by other means, such as via the sea or air – you can expect transportation by road to account for at least a portion of the trip.  However, the critical role of freight by road also means it is similarly essential for the right vehicles to be used for the movement of given products.  If you are reading this as a relative amateur or simply as a decision-maker for an organisation that needs to ensure a particular shipment gets to a specific destination on time and in good condition, you might not know much about the various kinds of road haulage vehicle that exist.  Fortunately, our team at ...

  When you have been considering your options for freight, warehousing and distribution as a shipper, you may well have come across mention of “consolidation containers” or “consolidated shipping”.  But what does this reference to consolidation mean, and what implications could it have for you? If your shipments don’t fill capacity, this could cost you  To understand what consolidated shipping is, it is important to understand how frequent it is in supply chains for partial shipments to occur – in other words, shipments that don’t fill capacity.  You can probably immediately see the problem here: if a shipment that you are looking to have transported from one part of the world to another only takes up half or a third of a trailer, but you need to pay for the entire space, this is hardly a desirable situation when it comes to optimising your freight costs.  When such additional expense is multiplied over considerable volumes of shipments over time, t...

  3 things you might not have known about freight forwarders   The term “freight forwarding” can be the subject of some confusion with regard to what it actually entails, and what a freight forwarder does and does not do.  So, to start the New Year here at KTL, we thought we would revisit some of the essentials of freight forwarding for your benefit, drawing upon our hard-won and longstanding knowhow in this field.  A quick introduction to freight forwarding  An obvious first question to ask is: what is freight forwarding? There are various definitions, with Dictionary.com – for example – defining a freight forwarder as “a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.”  A simpler way of understanding freight forwarding, is that it is all about organising the entire process of transporting goods from one location to anot...