Impact of Containerization
Containerization has definitely had a positive impact on international trading, safe to say that it has made transportation happen swimmingly. Containerization has definitely reduced the time usually taken to load and unload shipments by a lot. What used to take one to two weeks only requires one to two days now. This reduces the cost of shipping a lot.
There are significant advantages to international trading owing to containerization. One of them is the minimal requirement of workers. Before containerization, moving of goods happened manually where men used to arduously move the goods from one place to another. This not only was laborious and cumbersome but also time-consuming. So businessmen ended up paying wages for the workers, port charges, etc.
Introducing containerization helped businessmen to load the goods directly into the containers rather than transporting them to the port. This also saved time and money. Owing to this factor, ships can actually leave for their destination in less than two days. Also, the ports have gotten much more spacious and decongested.
The three stages of transportation using containers involve: a. Loading the container at the production facility. The goods no longer have to go to the port and then get loaded to the container. B. loaded containers can be transported to the port by train or truck and this can be left unsupervised. C. containers can now be loaded on to the ships with the help of cranes. This can help save a lot of money.
One of the main reasons for introducing containerization is to save the time of loading the shipments and get them on transit. Safe to say, this purpose has been served with other significant benefits too.
Containerization uses multi-modal transportation. For example, you need to load the container at your facility and then it has to be transported to the port. This can be done by a truck or a train. From the port, it is shipped to the destination and from there to the buyer. This involves the multi-modes of transportation. This can be a bit of a hassle for the sender to arrange transportation at various stages. It would be better to hire a company that would do end-to-end transportation.
Conclusion:
Containerization is a simple yet effective means of saving time and energy. If you are trading internationally you will understand the hassle of transportation better than anyone else. We urge you to give this a shot if you are an exporter of large volumes of goods. In the process, you can also save some money.
