Freight forwarder
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freight-forwarder-177-18207572
title:
Freight forwarder
text:
A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper by liaising with carriers. The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads, and often use multiple modes for a single shipment. A freight forwarder does not move the goods but acts as an agent in the logistics network and will carry out freight consolidation, rate negotiations, shipment tracking, custo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Handles logistics for freight
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_forwarder
date created:
2006-01-16T19:50:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T11:03:11Z
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