When an importer in Singapore orders a shipment to a warehouse in Frankfurt, a combined maritime transport operation begins: goods move by truck to port, then by container ship to Hamburg, and finally by rail inland.
Source: https://www.iru.org/resources/fact-sheets/what-combined-transport
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