Shipping to popular destinations and is able to deliver relatively high and stable income, even small towns need regular supplies of food and non-food items from the district center or other logistics centers. Also popular cargo transportation around the city, especially if you are building, developing business, there is no stagnation in the property market. How to organize a transport company, read our transport business support forums http://transit.support.
In the business plan of the transport company must enter the cost of creating a fleet that would meet the needs of potential customers. From scale-dependent and potential income.
It's one thing to offer freight forwarding services (business plan of the company freight) in the city, and another to create a transport company for shipping goods over long distances, including abroad.
The optimal solution will be the presence in the fleet of cars with different characteristics and capacity, for example:
small vehicles (up to 8 tons);
large trucks (capacity 8-25 tons);
specialized equipment (excavator, tower truck);
van-thermos;
the tow truck;
the container ship.
Additionally, the warehouse must be equipped with special equipment for loading and unloading vehicles - RoHS, truck scales, with a total cost of 120-360 thousand.
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The cost of transport "pipeline" varies from half a million to 2-4 million rubles depending on the brand and model of the vehicle. To buy 5-8 machines will have to invest at least 6-10 million.
How to open transport company six variants of receipt of equipment at its disposal:
To buy with an initial payment of own funds in the amount of 20-30% of the cost of vehicles.
To lease with a down payment of 10-20% of the cost of transport.
Rent with drivers.
Find the borrowed funds from other sources (see "Where to get money to start a business").