Professional Road Freight

The global integration of production and consumer markets comes with a continuous growth in international freight volumes – the pandemic has affected this trend only in the short term. Maintaining supply chains requires coordinated interaction between all modes of transport: air, sea, and land freight. What is the role of road freight in this and what advantages and challenges does it bring? Our Road Freight Products offer high quality road transportation, from standard services such as LTL (Less-than-Truck Load), PTL (Part) or FTL (Full-Truck Load) shipments to temperature controlled and highly secured transports.

How can I ship my ocean freight around the world?

Flexible and cost efficient transport solutions for part & full loads ensure that you receive the quality service you expect from FW. Regular scheduled departures to international locations for Less-than-Truck-Loads. Offering highly reliable door-to-door connections across Asia Pacific America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Predictable lead times for all your freight consignments allowing you to timetable your business with total confidence. GPS-equipped trucks ensure stable & safe truck monitoring and complete shipment track and trace visibility

Due to the use of existing infrastructure and comparatively low-cost transport machinery, road freight is a cost-efficient way of transporting goods. The price advantage is most noticeable for small amounts of freight, so that especially for companies with low transport volumes, road freight is often the best choice – LTL in particular is an attractive option in this respect.

The well-developed road system enables flexible planning of routes or intermediate stops. With road freight, a route can be modified and expanded at short notice. Even spontaneously requested transports can often be carried out because the use of the road infrastructure is possible at any time without prior registration or booking.

Trucks can be used for intermodal transport. Loaded, they can travel on ships and be transported by rail on special wagons. This prevents time-consuming reloading from one mode of transport to the other.

This aspect has already been mentioned, because it is possibly the greatest advantage of road freight: even if a company is located near an (air) port or train station, road transport is almost always required for the first or last leg of the route. Door-to-door delivery is in most cases only possible with road freight. Cargo is picked up directly from the production site or loading point and carried immediately to its destination, without the need for any other mode of transport or reloading.