What do international freight forwarders mainly do?

International freight forwarding companies have a wide range of business, such as customs declaration, space booking, air transport, sea transport, multimodal transport, packaging, warehousing, domestic logistics and so on.

Operation process of international freight forwarding company:

1, first of all, accept customer inquiry.

Shipping/air transport inquiry (you need to know the shipping ports and main routes on all continents, and know the cargo information such as the name and risk level of the goods. ). If it cannot be provided in time, please ask the customer to leave contact elements such as phone number and surname, so as to reply to the customer in the shortest time.

2. Receiving orders is also entrusted by customers.

After accepting the entrustment of customers, you need to know the key information: shipment date, number of pieces, container type, container quantity, gross weight and volume. The maximum volume of each type is (length * width * height), loadable weight, payment method, contact information of the owner and production situation.

3. Book shipping space for customers.

Obtain the bill of lading number, voyage, transportation time, etc. And inform the customer. The customer delivers the goods to the designated warehouse or freight yard according to the above warehousing time.

4. Export declaration.

Understand the information needed for customs declaration of frequently exported goods.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Confirmation and amendment of bill of lading.

6. Shipment after confirmation.

Extended data:

The core competitiveness of international freight forwarders.

In the whole international logistics transportation link, the trunk transportation cost is often the highest in the whole transportation link, and it is also a link with high transparency, easy standardization of operation and relatively low competition threshold.

Enterprises engaged in trunk transportation agents, whether air freight agents or sea freight agents, have a deep sense of crisis at present. The essence of agency is relational business+strong customer acquisition ability.

From the perspective of the relationship with upstream carriers (shipping companies and airlines), in fact, we will find that the whole upstream carrier is undergoing profound changes in the level of informationization and operational efficiency, and the expected benefits brought by the relationship business are decreasing, but the cost of maintaining the relationship is increasing.

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