groupage

The currently dominant in practice distribution concept is the groupage traffic.

In contrast to the groupage traffic, there is no handling, except to transport the goods.

They consolidate goods from different consignors into full loads for road transport to Europe, known as groupage.

In 2007 the number of European groupage consignments of all cooperation partners amounted 10.6 million.

Any load, including groupage, which leaves the approved premises as a single, identifiable unit intended for exportation.

However, groupage transports across the entire continent or the transport of bulk cargo also required transport by sea.

The managerial ingenuity of the Swiss-born entrepreneur was the introduction of groupage consignments by train.

In contrast to the round trip, is at groupage traffic cargo collected from a logistics company at the supplier and transported to the transshipment points.

It is an expansion of the groupage concept utilized by large haulage providers and performs a similar role to the US-based groupage company uShip.

Temporary halts for logistical reasons, for example simple repackaging for groupage, or transfer to another means of transport, are considered to be transit as the goods do not add to the stock of material resources of the country through which they are passing.

For instance, objects are typically sent by air from France in one of two ways: "container de groupage," where the item is shipped in a container with many others and may be delayed until the container is full, or "messagerie," where it is shipped individually.