Sea Freight
As per UNCTAD figures, in 2017, an estimated 89.5% of global trade is carried by sea.
As briefly defined above, Sea Shipping is the act of carriage of cargo from point to point using the ships which falls under the Maritime industry.
Cargoes are carried by various types of ships all around the world. UFS provides you with all of these services
Services
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- Oil Tankers
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- Dry Bulk Carriers
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- General Cargo Carriers
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- Container Carriers
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- Gas Carriers
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- Chemical Tankers.
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- Ro-Ro ships.
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- Others.
UFS company is a specialized company in the field of shipping where the company provides all marine services and transport of goods exported and imported between all seaports around the world through our network of agents in Europe, Asia and America, our distinguished team trained inside Egypt to achieve the objectives and requirements of the client easily and at a reasonable cost.
Services provided by the company
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- Shipping goods collected by LCL system “Less Container Load” .
LCL enables importers to ship smaller amounts of cargo that’s not of a large enough volume to make FCL a viable option. This means your cargo is combined with other shipping consignments headed for the same destination, which benefits clients, not to delay their goods and pay for less freight than full container.
Shipping goods collected by FCL system “full Container Load”.
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- When you go to FCL, it will be three most common container types for your evaluation
- 1- 20ft container including “ Dry container (DC) , open top container (OT) , open side container (OS) , flat rack container (RK), Refer Container (RF)
- 2- 40ft container including “ Dry container (DC) , open top container (OT) , open side container (OS) , flat rack container (RK), Refer Container (RF)
- 3- 40ft High Cube including “ Dry container (DC) , open top container (OT) , open side container (OS) , flat rack container (RK), Refer Container (RF)
Most businesses importing from all over the world are only concerned with these three standard sizes that make up most of the container volume.
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- Shipping of normal, dangerous goods into containers, and packages with overweight and anomalous sizes .
Our operation team (sea, clearance, and transportation) well trained and have the experiences to deal with all these goods and to handle in all shipment stages till delivered to customer warehouse safely.
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- Vessels Chartering:
There are various types of cargoes that are shipped around the world. And we have a professional team deal directly with ship owners to provide a complete services to a large stage of customers interested and use this type of shipping.
- our services include:
- 1- Dry Bulk, which covers five major bulk commodities (iron, coal, grain, bauxite and alumina, phosphate rock), minor bulks (forest products and the like),
- 2- General Cargo/Break Bulk accounts for about 70.2 per cent of global trade
- 3- Wet Bulk such as tanker cargo (crude oil, petroleum products and gas) of about 29.8% accounts for the balance.
- Plus we are securing to our clients the following:
- 1- Booking cargo for specific vessels in advance.
- 2- Ensuring that all cargo booked is planned on the intended vessels.
- 3- Ensure that the cargo that is planned on the vessels is actually shipped.
- 4- Ensure that the stowage planning is done properly on the vessel to optimize the vessel loading.
- 5- Ensure that all containers loaded have their VGM.
- 6- Ensure safe loading and discharging of the cargo.
- 7- Issuing bill of lading and other documentation for all cargo loaded.
