The characteristics of the liner transport: (l) the liner transport has fixed shipping date, route, port port and relative fixed rate of freight. (2) the shipping charges include the charge of loading and unloading, so the port and handling of the liner shall be held by the ship. (3) the number of liner carrying goods is more flexible, and the shipper is required to book the cabin, especially suitable for the carriage of general goods and containers.

The liner freight.

Liner freight is stipulated in the liner freight tariff, including basic freight and various surcharge. The basic freight is divided into two categories: one is the traditional one; One class is the shipping container rate.

The goods are also charged at the price of the goods or the number of items. For low-value goods, the freight shall be negotiated by the two parties.

The surcharge in liner freight is various, including; Super-long surcharge, overweight surcharge, the choice of the unloading port surcharge, change the unloading port surcharge, airlines fuel surcharge and transshipment port congestion surcharges, deviation surcharge, surcharge and direct surcharge, etc.

In the case of the shipping costs of the container, the service charge and the usage fee shall be included.

In addition, the liner company is mixed in the same packaging in the same packaging, according to the higher charge to collect the freight. The same ticket goods, such as packaging different, their level of billing and standards is different also, such as the shipper not according to different packing list the gross weight and volume, respectively, all the goods according to the charge for the higher collecting freight charges and the same bill of lading contains two or more different name, such as the shipper fails to gross and volume respectively, also from high pricing.