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Development of International Freight Forwarders

After hundreds of years of practice, with the continuous improvement of customer demand in different historical periods, international freight forwarders have developed from the initial receiving and shipping agents to the parties to transport contracts, and now to the third-party logistics providers and supply chain service providers. Their business scope is quite extensive, including not only the traditional collection of import and export goods, booking, consignment, warehousing, packaging, loading and unloading supervision, transit, distribution, inspection, cargo insurance and a series of services related to international transportation, but also a series of services.

"20 13-20 17 China International Freight Forwarding Industry Market Prospect and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report" shows that international freight forwarding has basically become an important part of service trade in all countries in the world, especially in developed countries and export-oriented economic regions. According to statistics, in 2006, there were more than 40,000 international freight forwarding enterprises in the world, with employees100,000. By June 5438+February, 2009, there were more than 20,387 domestic enterprises directly engaged in international freight forwarding business, with more than 1 10,000 employees, and the number of employees is increasing at the rate of 10% year by year.

The development direction of China international freight forwarding industry is international logistics. In the next 5- 10 years, China's national economy and foreign trade will achieve a new leap on the basis of structural adjustment and transformation, and China's share in global trade will continue to rise, and its total volume and scale will continue to expand, which will give international freight forwarding enterprises greater market space and development opportunities.