Trade between Korea and China is expected to run more smoothly in a few weeks thanks to a simplified multi-transport logistics system.

Korea's Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs has signed a comprehensive logistics agreement with China which will enable faster movements of tractor trailers carrying shipping containers.

Under the current system, cargo must be loaded to at least two other trailers in between arrival at ports and the final destination, resulting in hours of costly loading and unloading.

But with the new system, the initial shipping container can travel by ground in both countries, thereby eliminating the unloading-loading process and saving costs for both shippers and cargo owners.

Once the agreement takes effect next month, the new service will first open in six major ports of the two countries, including Incheon and Pyeongtaek in Korea and Weihai and Qingdao of China.

Officials say that the door-to-door shipping agreement will spark other improvements in the bilateral shipping process, further boosting trade between two of Asia's major economies.