What is transportation and freight services?

Every day, we all participate in transportation work as objects and subjects of transportation activities. However, few people are interested in the history, development and future of the transportation sector. In this article, we will briefly learn about the knowledge of the transportation industry and transportation services.

Transportation, also known as transportation, is a form of labor based on physical principles that has existed for a long time. Transportation is simply the process of applying force to objects to move certain objects from one location to another. Transportation is associated with people’s daily living, production, and labor needs and is indispensable in a society with division of labor. Thus, it can be said that transportation has been around since the appearance of humanity. Initially, transportation was often associated with the activities of carrying, carrying, carrying, lifting… of people in primitive society. Later, as people’s socio-economic form became more and more complex, forms of transportation were increasingly improved and diversified. And over time, transportation services gradually formed.

As mentioned above, transportation is an indispensable activity and plays an extremely important role in transporting people and goods. If we divide by task, we can divide it into transportation groups such as public transportation such as buses and trains. Freight transport, specialized transport, personal transport such as motorbikes, cars…etc. The trend of diversifying and modernizing transportation is an indispensable factor in the current socio-economic context. When transporting goods from the place of dispatch to the place of receipt, in which the forwarder signs a transportation contract with the goods owner, and also signs a reciprocal contract with the carrier to perform the service, it is called freight services. The companies that do this work are called freight companies.

Thus, transportation is both an operation and a career field. Currently, Transport is divided into road transport, often referred to as road transport, waterway transport, railway transport, air transport and pipeline transport.

What is freight transportation service? Development situation of this service in Vietnam

Initially, transportation was only carried out within the family and for personal use, which was not enough to form a transportation service. Only when production forces develop, commercial activities are born and travel demand increases rapidly will a new service called transportation service be formed. Transportation services are economic activities that take place between the subject (transporter) and the object (user and payer). Transportation services are conducted by many different means.

Transport plays a key role in the distribution and circulation of goods as well as meeting human needs. Currently, commercial purposes account for the largest number of all transport transactions. If we consider the entire economy as a living organism, in which the transportation system is the lifeline, then transporting goods is the process of bringing nutrients to the cells of that living organism. Therefore, transportation is always a necessary factor in the socio-economic development roadmap of each country.

Currently, transportation services are also conducted through the following forms:

Road

Rail

Waterway

Airline

Pipeline

To serve the needs of production and business, modes of transport can also be combined together synchronously, seamlessly, and effectively to form a service called multimodal transport. Accordingly, goods only need to go through one service company and be transported through many methods and territories to the destination. The National Vietnam is one of the freight transport companies that meets the above requirements.