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.
Source: https://unctad.org/topic/transport-and-trade-logistics/multimodal-transport
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