What is freight forwarding and how do items get shipped around the world?

Freight forwarding and international logistics are often overlooked as important industries, in part because all the work goes on behind the scenes. Yet look around: It’s likely that, no matter where you are sitting right now, every item in your line of sight was at some point transported by a plane, truck, ship, or train. How did all those objects get from where they were made to where they are now? That is the story of international freight forwarding.

How does freight forwarding work in the current Supply Chain industry?

A freight forwarders job is to coordinate the complexity required to move freight across a diverse network of logistics asset owners. Because no company is big enough to have all the assets required—trucks, container ships, cargo planes, trains, warehouses, and more, in every country on earth—freight forwarders have to use multiple asset owners on any given shipment.

What is freight forwarding and how is Flexport disrupting this? - Trade Finance Global

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What is freight forwarding and how is Flexport disrupting this?

By James Sinclair

James Sinclair is the Marketing Manager at Trade Finance Global.

Last updated on 22 Aug 2024

12 Oct 2016 8 min reading time

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