Freight forwarders and logistics planners arrange a change of transport mode when a shipment needs to shift from one carrier type to another mid-journey—road to rail, sea to road, or air to inland waterway, for example.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_transport
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