Multimodal transport, also called integrated transport. This is the form of freight transport with at least two different modes of transport becoming. Common transport methods currently in use are: road, rail, air and sea. . .
It can be said that multimodal transport services are growing in popularity and becoming an inevitable trend by:
* Standard tendency of goods transporting containers using pallets
* Take advantage of advantages and scale and advantages of transport vehicles
* Cost-effective when combining multiple modes of transportation with each other
 
Optimizing transport modes saves costs for transport, flexibility in time and frequency of transport, and simplifies management with the participation and responsibility of an organization. carriage. Multimodal transport also reduces the overload in some traditional transport methods, limiting some means of polluting the environment with more friendly means.

Benefits of multimodal transport
* Multimodal transport if developed in the right direction and incorporates the participation of methods that can bring a lot of contribution to commercial activities and goods production.
* Help reduce logistics costs for businesses, which in turn leads to lower costs of goods and production.
* Encourage economic growth and economic growth, expand transportation networks and achieve high economic efficiency when combining transport modes to transport large volumes of goods.
* Increasing competitiveness in terms of price and quality for businesses, helping faster access to the market.
Becoming an important bridge in commercial activities, transport services today meet most of the complex requirements of the domestic and international transport market.
Transport services are more than just cargo movement, but also a process of transporting into a complete chain that makes the transport of goods faster and safer. Multimodal transport is becoming a popular transportation trend because it can meet the requirements in the container shipping market.