Class 39 Transportation & Storage Services

Transport; packaging and storage of goods; travel arrangement.

Explanatory Note:
It includes mainly services for the transport of people, animals, or goods from one place to another (by rail, road, water, air, or pipeline) and services necessarily connected with such transport, as well as services relating to the storing of goods in a warehouse or other building for their preservation or guarding.

This Class includes, in particular: -services rendered by companies exploiting stations, bridges, rail-road ferries, etc., used by the transporter; -services connected with the hiring of transport vehicles; -services connected with maritime tugs, unloading, the functioning of ports and docks and the salvaging of wrecked ships and their cargoes; -services connected with the packaging and parceling of goods before dispatch;-services consisting of information about journeys or the transport of goods by brokers and tourist agencies, information relating to tariffs, timetables and methods of transport;-services relating to the inspection of vehicles or goods before transport. This Class does not include, in particular: -services relating to advertising transport undertakings such as the distribution of prospectuses or advertising on the radio (Class 35); -services relating to the issuing of travelers’ cheques or letters of credit by brokers or travel agents (Class 36); -services relating to insurances (commercial, fire or life) during the transport of persons or goods (Class 36); -services rendered by the maintenance and repair of vehicles, nor the maintenance or repair of objects connected with the transport of persons or goods (Class 37); -services relating to reservation of rooms in a hotel by travel agents or brokers (Class 43).