Combined Transport is a system of transporting goods in one transportation unit (large container, swap body, a rollable container) or on a road vehicle, which also makes use of rail or water transport. It involves the transportation of a load in one transportation unit, using several types of transportation, and only the combined-transport transportation unit is re-loaded, not the goods themselves.
The term inter-modal transport means freight transport during which the truck, trailer, semi-trailer, removable swap body, or a container, uses roads for the initial and/or final leg of the trip, and in the remaining sector, is transported, with the towing vehicle, or without it, by rail, via a water route, or by sea.