Logistics
Logistics Routes
Transport options, transit times, cold-chain requirements, border checkpoints and documentation for each export corridor.
- Transport modes
- Cold-chain rules
- Transit times
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Road, rail, sea and multimodal corridors.
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Ukraine to Vilnius (Lithuania): Reefer Road Corridor
Planning data for temperature-controlled road freight from Ukraine to Lithuania: corridor, indicative distance and transit, and the Baltic distribution picture.
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Ukraine to Zagreb (Croatia): Reefer Road Corridor
Planning data for temperature-controlled road freight from Ukraine to Croatia: corridor, indicative distance and transit, and the onward Balkan picture.
How to read a route page
A route page describes a physical corridor: where it starts, where it ends, which border crossings it uses, what temperature regime applies, how long it takes in practice, and which documents travel with the goods. It is written for the person who has to promise a delivery date to somebody else.
Transit times are planning estimates, not commitments
The figures assume normal border throughput and no closure. They exclude the time a vehicle spends waiting for a customs decision, which is the single most variable element in every corridor out of Ukraine and the one that most often breaks a delivery window. Build slack into the promise you give your own customer rather than quoting the optimistic figure and hoping.
Temperature control has to be written down
Temperature-controlled routes reference the ATP agreement for the classification of the equipment and the recording obligations that come with it. Frozen consignments should have the operating set point and the tolerance for transient deviation written into the transport order, not assumed from custom. Recorders should conform to a recognised standard, and someone at the receiving end has to actually read the trace. A recorder nobody downloads proves nothing when a claim is raised.
Capacity is limited by footprint, not volume
Capacity figures are given for standard equipment. A reefer semi-trailer and a forty-foot high-cube reefer container do not hold the same number of pallets, and the binding constraint is usually pallet footprint or axle weight rather than cubic capacity. Confirm the loading plan against the actual pallet dimensions and gross weights before booking, particularly for dense frozen product where the weight limit arrives long before the space runs out.
The Incoterm decides who owns each of these problems
None of the above is abstract. The Incoterm you agree decides who pays for the waiting time, who carries the risk while the truck sits at the border, and who has to produce the export declaration. Read the route page and the Incoterms material together before signing anything.
Start here
Three entry points that answer most first visits to this section.
Incoterms 2020 for food buyers
What each rule transfers, where risk passes and which ones create problems in temperature-controlled trade.
Cold chain to the EU
How the chain is actually maintained from tunnel to receiving bay, and where it breaks.
Export documentation
The document set that travels with a consignment and who issues each part.
Common questions about this section
Why are the transit times given as ranges?
Because border waiting time dominates the variance and cannot be predicted per shipment. A single number would be a fiction that someone would eventually quote to a customer.
What temperature should a frozen consignment be carried at?
The frozen foodstuffs framework requires the product to be held at minus eighteen degrees Celsius or colder, with limited short upward tolerances during transport and local distribution. Write the set point and the tolerance into the transport order.
Is a temperature recorder mandatory?
For frozen foodstuffs in transport, recording equipment is required and the records must be kept. Beyond the legal minimum, buyers routinely require a downloadable trace as a condition of acceptance.
Container or trailer for a European delivery?
Trailer for most road-served EU destinations, container where the leg is maritime or where the consignee is at a port. Pallet count and total weight usually decide it before anything else does.