TYPE Of TERMINAL

Terminal is a basic things of transportation. Terminal is divided 6 consist of rail, water,air,pipeline,motor carrier (truckload), motor carrier (less truck load).

Rail

Rail terminal commonly call a hump or marshaling yard. Some of this terminal provide 2 activity which is for freight and passenger but usually the freight is separate because freight activity must have a lot of space. Freight terminal is little complex than passenger because want to full fill of customer demand. This terminal must have specialize loading and unloading equipment and equipment. Rail freight perform 4 major fuction. Bulk, roll on/off, break bulk, intermodal, shunting. Basically intermodalism happen with truck rail or rail truck. 

WATER

Water terminal consist of harbor and port. 

Harbor

Harbor is water portion for staging, loading, and unloading activities of the ships. Harbor usually is natural but some country constructed. 

Harbor

Port

Port is the land area that provide space for freight and the loading and unloading equipment. The port area of water terminal includes pilotage and towage facilities for ships not able to use their own power to enter the port. Facilities at the port is ship repairs, bunkering, victualling, custom, security services and medical services.

Air

Air is consist of 2 facilities. Freight and passenger. The activities is just the same of rail mode, the different is mode of transportation.

Pipeline

Pipeline terminal have storage facilities, gathering lines, trunk lines, and pumping station. This facilities for temporary storage before ship or lorry tanker transport storage. As we know, pipeline is fully automated, less using worker. 

Motor Carrier (truckload)

Truckload is we as user, rent the whole of container. We fully occupy the container. Motor carrier(truckload) do not have terminal because there send the goods directly to the consignees. Which mean, door to door service. Truck will stop, just for maintenance, dispatching, fuel, and maintenance service. 

Motor Carrier (less truckload)

Less truckload is consignees rent the space of container. In other words, we share the container with other people. The terminal using the hub and spoke system to easy to collect the goods from the consignor.