SEA TRANSPORTATION

FCL Shipment (Full Container Load)

Full container load. Such transportation option is very used when the exporter and/or importer has volume or weight sufficient to load an entire container, or to certain types of loads that, for their particularities, may not be shipped with other loads of the most different types. There are cases where the load may be shipped with other loads (LCL) because the weight or volume are considered insufficient to load an entire container, but it is at the exporter’s/importer’s discretion to want to ship their load alone in a container.

LCL Shipment (Less than Container Load)

Less than container load. This option is used when the exporter/importer does not have load sufficient to fill the container. Thus, in order to minimize the costs in the international sea freight, it shares the space with other exporters/importers, paying the values of sea freight and other rates proportional to the space used in the container. In LCL shipments, within a same container there are loads of several exporters and importers. Although sharing the same container, each exporter/importer is responsible for their load, having to perform every customs process for the shipment in the origin and nationalization in the destination of their load.

Out Of Gauge load transportation (OOG)

There are loads that may not be shipped in DRY containers because their measures exceed the dimensions of the standard containers. In such cases, we consider the loads with OOG (Out of Gauge) excess, thus, there are other types of containers that may pack your loads (Open Top, Flat Rack, among others). STW has expertise in such type of shipment, being able to offer an efficient advisory to our clients.

Hazardous Load Transportation (IMO)

There are loads that are considered hazardous for the transportation, where there are risks for the safety of the ship crew and of the other loads thereon. To such type of load, there is a strict control that the exporter shall comply with before the ship owner and the loading and shipment terminals. STW may assist you mapping all requirements and regulatory compliances that shall be made previously to the shipment, analyzing all documentation, and presenting it to those people in charge to obtain the authorization of shipment so that your load is transported with the maximum safety as possible, not exposing the other shippers and crew to risks.

Door-to-Door Service

Members of an international association with partners in all continents in more than 200 countries worldwide enables STW to offer to our clients a differentiated and exclusive door-to-door service. You tell us the origin and the destination, and STW takes the charge of picking up in your factory and delivering at the client’s door, duly nationalized and ready for consumption/resale.

NVOCC / Freight Forwarders

NVOCC is an acronym (Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier), which means that the carrier is not owner of ships.

Since NVOCC does not have ships, it may act and be present in all continents and countries, since it has the flexibility of working with all ship owners that operate in the world. NVOCC may work with full loads, called FCL (Full Container Load), as well as it may work with consolidated loads, called LCL (Less than Container Load).

The activity of NVOCC arises with the advent of the container ships. With the increase of the container ships, the small shippers were hindered with the fact of having to charter, pay a full container to issue small goods that occupied only a part of the container and/or expect the economical feasibility of carrying out the transportation by the ship owner to issue such load to the destination. Such deadlock made that the international business of such shippers were impaired for several times.

With the appearance of NVOCC, the small shippers could ship their merchandise only paying for the space their load effectively took within a container, not having to pay for the “dead” space thereof. NVOCC acts as a co-loader of the loads, obtains in the market other small shippers that have the same interest to ship them, which origin and destination are the same, shipping within a same container merchandise of several shippers, so enabling the international operation thereof.

Once a consolidated shipment requires the loading work, and the ship owner is not interested in carrying it out, since the work and costs of such operation (loading) did not compensate the received freight, NVOCC undertook the charge of carrying out such operation, taking care of all states of consolidation of the merchandise until depositing the container on the ship.

As aforementioned, since NVOCC does not have ships and does not have pre-established routes, it may act in any continent and country. Such actuation uses to be carried out through partnerships with NVOCC’s of other countries. The particularity of each country, state, and city makes that the established partnerships provide to the shipment more assertiveness in relation to the processes of each region (local negotiations). Such partners existing around the world are fundamental parts for the success in international transportation, since they make the breakdown of the shipment, discharge of the container, return thereof to the ship owner, processes related to customs controls, and other needs demanded by the competent inspection bodies.