What is an international freight forwarding, main job is what?

International freight forwarding industry was founded in the tenth century, the early period of the customs broker, most practitioners come from international trade enterprises, high-quality personnel, the owner of a considerable part of international trade and transport issues are handled by as trade development, gradually derive a specialized industry, in forwarding the development process, some countries have tried to cancel it, so that shippers direct business relationship with the carrier occurs, reduce intermediate links, but all failed due to constitute international freight forwarding market, shippers, shipping agency, shipowner (or other capacity) four main, and Port Terminal, field, stations, libraries and other objects can not be mixed, run, cross-business, will make the international freight market competition order and chaos.
 What is an international freight forwarding?
 Freight forwarding, cargo agents from a literal point of view is the abbreviation of the content from the work point of view is to accept the customer's commissioned a certain part of the carriage of goods or related to this part, related work in this area can be directly or indirectly looking forwarding to Finish to save the capital. According to different goods have overseas agents. Freight forwarding general work include: import and export of goods, cargo supervision of loading and unloading as well as LCL unpacking and overseas transportation.
 What is the main job forwarding?
 Exports: (Exporters)
 (A) to make foreign exchange transactions;
(2) pay the freight and other costs;
(3) receive original bill of lading has been issued, and pay the consignor;
(4) arrange freight forwarding;
(5) Select the transport route, mode of transport and appropriate carrier;
(6) to the selected carrier to provide cargo canvassing;
(7) the amount of weight and size;
(8) arranging insurance;
(9) the goods after customs clearance and port documentation procedures, and the goods to the carrier;
(10) of the goods and the issuance of relevant documents;
(11) studied the credit terms and all government regulations;
(12) packing;
(13) Storage;
(14) notify the consignee of goods dynamics;
(15) records the case of loss of the goods;
(16) to assist the consignee to the responsible parties claim.
 Imports (importer)
 (A) delivery and pay the freight;
(2) arrange customs clearance and payment of taxes and other charges;
(3) in the process of arranging transportation warehousing;
(4) report cargo dynamic;
(5) receive and review all transport-related documents;
(6) has been delivered to the consignee of the goods for customs clearance;
(7) to assist the consignee storage or distribution of goods.

 Freight forwarding as a bridge between shippers and carriers, it is not only how many intermodal operators also receive the goods and issue multimodal bill of lading, the carrier bears the risk of liability for the owner to provide a package of transportation services