What is the business scope of freight forwarders?

The business scope of international freight forwarders is divided into sea transportation, air transportation and land transportation. The specific business items that international freight forwarding enterprises can engage in shall be subject to the business scope listed in the Business License for Enterprise as a Legal Person issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce. According to the current laws and regulations of China, international freight forwarders can usually engage in the following businesses:

1, goods, booking, consignment, warehousing and packaging;

2. Supervise the unloading of goods, unpacking, distribution and transshipment of containers;

3. Customs declaration, inspection, inspection and insurance agency;

4. Prepare and issue relevant documents, pay freight, settle accounts and pay miscellaneous fees;

5. International multimodal transport, container transport, etc.

The above business scope does not mean that freight forwarding companies only operate one of them. In practice, freight forwarding companies generally engage in a variety of businesses. For example, a freight forwarding company may do both air freight forwarding business and sea freight forwarding business, and it also has a cooperative fleet.

Automobile transportation agency business that can undertake road transportation; Another example is that a freight forwarding company can be an import agent or an export agent. The container terminal is not only responsible for container loading and unloading, but also for automobile transportation between the port and the terminal.

Extended data:

An international freight forwarding enterprise refers to a legal person enterprise that accepts the entrustment of the consignor and consignor of import and export goods, handles international freight transportation and related business for the consignor in its own name, and collects service remuneration.

Classification of freight forwarding enterprises

There are many ways to distinguish the classification of freight forwarders. For example, some people make the following distinction:

1、? International freight forwarders are divided into sea freight forwarders, air freight forwarders, automobile freight forwarders, railway freight forwarders, through freight forwarders, liner freight forwarders, tramp freight forwarders and liquid bulk freight forwarders according to their business scope.

2、? According to the entrusted project and business process, it can be divided into booking agent, cargo declaration agent, aviation agent, cargo import agent, cargo export agent, container freight agent, container unpacking agent, cargo loading and unloading agent, transit agent, tally agent, storage and transportation agent, inspection agent and inspection agent.

International freight forwarders are divided into sea freight forwarders, air freight forwarders, automobile freight forwarders, railway freight forwarders, through freight forwarders, liner freight forwarders, tramp freight forwarders and liquid bulk freight forwarders according to their business scope.

According to the entrusted project and business process, it can be divided into booking agent, cargo declaration agent, aviation agent, cargo import agent, cargo export agent, container freight agent, container unpacking agent, cargo loading and unloading agent, transit agent, tally agent, storage and transportation agent, inspection agent and inspection agent.

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