An important part of transportation by any mode of transport - sea, road, rail - is a freight forwarding. The clients of MTR offers freight forwarding as an independent service, for example, for goods coming under terms CIF, and in conjunction with the cargo transportation

Agents, representatives, partners of MTR are located in most major ports around the world. Currently, MTR service area includes the major international trading ports of Europe, Russia, Asia, Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Central and South America, Australia and Africa. Therefore, MTR has a unique opportunity to offer its customers the widest range of services for intra-logistics in transshipment points, departure and destination.

Services of MTR on intra-port logistics:

• control of all cargo operations: repacking, transshipment, consolidation, handling oversized cargo, sorting, warehousing, loading and unloading operations, intra-movement of goods;
• forwarding of various types of cargo, including container, oversized and regime. Organization pre-carriage to the port of departure, using the services of local forwarding companies;
• payment of tariffs and additional services;
• design of a full package of the commodity documentation and monitoring of freight document;
• customs clearance of goods, the organization of examinations involving customs, veterinary, quarantine, sanitary and other services with design of appropriate instruments and certificates;
• survey and tally services, retained repacking of goods;
• transshipment by road and rail transport with the subsequent delivery to anywhere in the world;
• cargo insurance.

MTR is an operator to serve all types of export-import and transit goods passing through the ports of North-West region of the Baltic basin, such as Riga, Tallinn, St. Petersburg, Vyborg, Vysotsk, Ust-Luga, Kronstadt, Primorsk, ports of the Southern Basin: Astrakhan, Novorossiysk , Odessa; ports of the Northern Basin: Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, ports of the Far Eastern basin: Vladivostok, Vostochny, Nakhodka, Olga; ports of Finland: Helsinki, Kotka and Hamina. Such components of port forwarding, as transshipment, repacking, separation, storage and other cargo operations, as well as the design of port and shipping documents are provided in these ports on the rates for special terms.

The undoubted advantage of MTR is the fact that the central and operational offices are in Riga - the largest transport center, the sea hub of Baltic States - an important transport link between East and West. MTR provides all necessary services on special conditions for intra-port forwarding in the Port of Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja. This means that sea cargo to and from Europe will be delivered quickly and in time!

MTR offers to its customers services on intra-port forwarding:

• Obtaining and analyzing information about the expected arrival of goods. Choosing the best terminal for cargo handling.
• Pre-registration of required accompanying documentation (including customs documentation) and its wiring in the port. Registration of cargo release.
• Collection of the commodity and shipping documentation from line and shipping agents. Getting releases from shipping lines.
• Co-ordination with the port authorities and obtaining regulatory approvals for the transshipment and storage of dangerous, heavy and oversized cargo.
• Registration of the full set of intra-port and terminal documentation.
• Organization of cargo operations:
  • loading and unloading
  • stuffing / unpacking / repacking
  • transshipment
  • cargo consolidation
  • processing of bulky goods
  • sorting cargo
  • storage
  • intra-port movement of goods
  • reloading in other modes of transport.
• Providing surveyor and tally services.
• Organization of Inspection operations, weighing of cargo, with the participation of customs, veterinary, quarantine, sanitation and other public services with drawing up the necessary reports and certificates as required by regulatory authorities, and upon request of the consignee.
• Organization of storage of goods, requiring compliance with temperature control in warehouses-refrigerators, located in the Port of St. Petersburg and Riga.
• The accumulation of consignments at the port terminals for export.
• Receiving, checking invoices of terminals for work performed and extra storage.
• Development and implementation of individual (depending on the needs of clients) technology of reloading and intra-handling.
• Design of bonded transit.
• Development of optimal routes and means of delivery in terms of price and transit time to final destination.