In India, all freight is shipped via the Indian Railways and this is known as freight forwarding. Shipping companies like Cargolux, Indo Pacific Freight and all others have branches in Mumbai and they can forward your shipments to the shipping companies which bring the freight to India via the land route. Of course, there are some trucks which run on the roads. However, they require a lot of fuel, trucks can not travel very far from the shipping companies which are the entry point. Freight transportation via trucks is limited to a certain amount of distance that these companies will allow them to travel in a day. It can take anything between 7 to 14 hours to move a truck from Mumbai to Delhi for example. The best way to move a lot of freight via trucks is through the freight forwarding companies who can give you a forwarder who will take the goods via the forwarding company.