{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Multimodal Transport","description":"Multimodal transport comes into play as soon as a shipment travels through at least two distinct modes of carriage under a single contract – for instance, by truck from the shipper's warehouse, onward by rail, and finally by sea to the destination port. A single freight forwarder or multimodal transport operator (MTO) holds the overarching contract and bears liability to the shipper for the entire journey, not just individual legs. This single-contract principle sets multimodal transport apart f","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/multimodal-transport","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-06-15T17:39:59.903412","citation":"https://unctad.org/topic/transport-and-trade-logistics/multimodal-transport","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/multimodal-transport","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Multimodal Transport · Multimodal transport comes into play as soon as a shipment travels through at least two distinct modes of carriage under a single contract – for instance, by truck from the shipper's warehouse, onward by rail, and finally by sea to the destination port. · Quelle: https://unctad.org/topic/transport-and-trade-logistics/multimodal-transport"}