The freight forwarding agent refers to the business that is entrusted by others to provide transportation services for the agent, on behalf of the company, and on behalf of the goods.
Cargo agents, some are middlemen or they do not have boats or planes, or shipping companies, airlines, all of which are freight forwarding duties, and the goods entrusted by the consignor are transported from one place to another by the established transportation route. A company that collects goods and collects goods for transportation companies (sea, land and air).
In the international freight market, the freight forwarding industry is between the shipper and the carrier, and is entrusted by the shipper to handle chartering, booking, loading, handling of relevant documents, customs declaration, inspection, insurance, container transportation, disassembly and assembly, Issue bills of lading, settle transportation and miscellaneous fees, and even submit bills for negotiation and settlement.
The ocean freight operation generally refers to the operation of the shipping business in the freight forwarding company. The main counterparts are also used to refer to the customer service operation, and the process is divided into import and export operations. Taking the container export goods as an example, the process is roughly as follows: consignment acceptance-booking-boxing-declaration packing-shipping-unloading-notifying delivery-clearing-changing-receiving-delivery.
Shipping operations generally refer to the personnel in the freight forwarding company who are inquiring about booking with the shipping company or the operators in the shipping company.
Taking the freight forwarding company as an example, the shipping operation process is roughly as follows: inquiry with the shipping company - booking (lower booking) - shipping company issuing the booking list (S / O) - the owner of the goods take S / O cabinet loading - customs declaration - Bill of lading - single-payment - take bill of lading.
Large-scale freight forwarding company operation process will be subdivided, each operation has a special person, small goods on behalf of the company alone package the above business. Some large manufacturers also have shipping and shipping operations.
