When a shipment moves across more than one transport mode, it falls under combined or intermodal transport: truck for the pre-carriage leg, rail or ocean freight for the main haul, and road again for final delivery.
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/combined-transport_en
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