Intermodal transport is an efficient way of transport with minimal cargo handling. As an example of the organization of a hypothetical intermodal transport on the China-Republic of Croatia route, two modes of transport are combined, where an example of an arbitrarily selected manipulative unit - a monitor - is transported for the purpose of as faithful a presentation as possible. A hypothetical stock shortage is used to analyze the manipulative unit for which transport is organized. The selected modes of transport for this example are ship and railway, given their characteristics and advantages for the delivery of cargo over longer transport routes. A detailed analysis of the course of the water and rail transport route includes the display of a map that visually shows the direction of movement of the cargo. Procedures such as the possession of legally prescribed documentation, carrying out the process of cargo unitization through palletization and containerization, and working with special transshipment machinery during intermodal transport, at the same time constitute the fundamental challenges of intermodal transport where logistics service providers try to optimize cargo units, time, transport distance and reduce the impact of transport on the environment with the development of technologies.