What is a container terminal?
Container yard is the place where ship companies store containers. Each ship company has one or several box points. The so-called "box point" is the station. The forwarder shall also arrange for the shipper to pick up the empty container at the yard, or send the goods to the yard for packing, and then arrange the port collection after the clearance of the goods by the customs declaration office. Customs broker for customs clearance and station arrangement, collection port (if the origin of the container is shipped by the freight company to collect the port) is a necessary condition for shipment of container goods.
After truncation port time, then unified embarks (at this time must have clearance). That is to say, the container yard is uniform clearance before the board together, in the container goods yard waiting for clearance, so that the shipping companies, customs and other management.
Container yard, for the export of Marine Containers, the role of the yard is to put all of the export customer's container somewhere in the first collection (whether customs clearance or not),
Container yard (CONTAINER YARD:CY) is also called "station depot" in some places: container handling or empty container handling, transshipment, storage and transfer. It is an important component of container transportation relationship and plays an important role in container transportation.
