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  • ROAD FREIGHT / LAND TRANSPORT

    SMC LLC is among the leading companies providing international and local transportation logistics solutions. The Land Transport department has been providing door to door delivery and cross border logistics within the GCC countries like Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman through regular LTL and FTL services. We maintain flexible and trailer made road services to meet the customer needs. Our Road Cargo Services is very easy and cost effective and we do Road Cargo to Saudi, Road Cargo to Kuwait, Road Cargo to Qatar, Road Cargo to Bahrain, and Road Cargo to Oman.

    Due to the different nature of the goods and goods transported, the types of road transportation used by logistics companies around the world are also different. It also depends on the level of development and local infrastructure, as well as the distance the goods need to be transported by road. When determining the type of vehicle, the weight and volume of a single cargo also play an important role.

    For short-distance and light situations, small-batch trucks or pickup trucks are sufficient, while large-batch goods (even if less than trucks) are transported by trucks. This usually takes the form of a third-party logistics (3PL) solution that enables more cost-effective pricing and improved supply chain management.

    Road transport of bulk cargo

    Bulk cargo is freight transported in large quantities without packing or packaging, where the means of transport itself acts as the container. Both solid and liquid bulk freight require especially careful stowage to reduce cargo loss. At SMC we know how to deal with the road transport of bulk cargo, as well as the machinery and instruments required for handling the freight.

    Break Bulk Movements

    In transportation, break bulk payload or general freight is a term that can be depicted as merchandise that should be stacked independently, and not in multi-purpose compartments nor in bulk likewise with oil or grain. Boats that convey such a freight are regularly called general payload ships. The term break bulk gets from the expression breaking bulk—the extraction of a part of the freight of a boat or the start of the dumping cycle from the boat's holds. These products may not be in steel trailers. Break bulk payload is moved in packs, boxes, boxes, drums, or barrels. Unit heaps of things got to a bed or slide are likewise utilized. A break-in-bulk point is where products are moved starting with one method of transport then onto the next, for instance the harbors where merchandise move from boat to truck. Break bulk was the most well-known type of load for a large portion of the historical backdrop of transportation. Since the last part of the 1960s the volume of break bulk load has declined drastically worldwide as containerization has developed. Moving load on and off transport in compartments is considerably more effective, permitting boats to invest less energy in port. Break bulk load additionally experienced more prominent robbery and harm.

    Heavy goods transport

    SMC is experienced in handling the road transport of heavy goods including machinery, industrial and construction materials. We can provide guaranteeing that your heavy load will arrive safely at its destination within the agreed deadline.

    Very Heavy Equipment Movement

    Heavy equipment or large equipment alludes to substantial vehicles, extraordinarily intended for executing development undertakings, most oftentimes ones including earthwork activities or other enormous development errands. Hefty hardware normally includes five gear frameworks: execution, footing, structure, power train, control and information.

    Heavy equipment capacities through the mechanical benefit of a straightforward machine, the proportion between input power applied and power applied is increased, making assignments which could take many individuals and long stretches of work without hefty equipment undeniably less concentrated in nature. Some equipment utilizes water powered drives as an essential wellspring of movement.

    Dry goods road transport

    When we refer to dry or general road freight, we mean goods that need no special transport equipment or conditions. This encompasses most of the goods transported by road and delivered door to door. This kind of cargo is transported in packages or on pallets. We SMC can subdivide the dry load into fractions, referring to lose goods when they have their own packaging, such as parcels, sacks or boxes; and to the units, when it is made up of articles grouped together on pallets or in containers and perform door to door delivery.

    Container transportation

    • Flexible and timely arranging of cranes and forklifts
    • Fleet of own trucks
    • Proper port operations
    • Border clearance
    • Fast and reliable services
    • Flexible and time delivery services
    • Land transportation to GCC countries (LTL and FTL)
    • Break bulk movements
    • Very heavy equipment movements

    Land Transportation to GCC Countries

    Land transport can be named shipping either merchandise or materials or moving individuals. The significant benefit of street transport is that it can empower house to house conveyance of merchandise and materials and can give extremely savvy methods for cartage, stacking and dumping. Once in a while land transport is the lone route for conveying merchandise and individuals to and from country zones which are not obliged by rail, water or air transport. Conveyance of products between urban areas, towns and little towns is made conceivable just through land transport. Nonetheless, regardless of different benefits, land transport has some significant limits. For example, there are more odds of mishaps and breakdowns in the event of land transport. Thus, engine transport isn't just about as protected as different methods for transport. Land transport is likewise very less coordinated in correlation with different modes. It is unpredictable and inconsistent. Rates for land transportation are likewise shaky and inconsistent, while the speed in land transport is moderate and restricted, which is a significant downside. Shipping massive products over significant distances is additionally inadmissible and expensive. In current days, land transport adversely affects the climate. Building streets requires dissolving of tar or plan of solid, which may hurt the related climate. Since land have been a significant empowering influence of mechanized vehicle, these vehicles likewise emanate a ton of contamination as Nitrogen dioxide, unpredictable natural mixtures, carbon monoxide and different unsafe air toxins, including benzene, which have an unfavorable respiratory wellbeing impacts and a genuine danger to a worldwide temperature alteration. While spontaneous creation of land is a genuine subject of examination, land transport of things to come incorporates perspectives like sun powered board streets and vehicles where sunlight based cells have supplanted black-top or tar, and there are vehicles with electric engines decreasing discharge. Land transport of things to come plans to chip away at these negativities and turn them around.