The role of shipping freight forwarder service suppliers
1. The role of organization and coordination
The shipping freight forwarder service supplier organizes the transportation activities, designs the transportation route, selects the transportation method and the carrier (or cargo owner) by virtue of the transportation knowledge and other related knowledge it possesses.
Coordinate the relationship between cargo owners, carriers and their warehousing custodians, insurers, banks, ports, airports, stations, yard operators and relevant authorities such as customs, commodity inspection, health inspection, animal and plant inspection, import and export control, etc. The client's time, reduce many unnecessary troubles, and concentrate on the main business.
2. The role of professional services
The job of the shipping freight forwarder service supplier is to use its own professional knowledge and experience to provide the client with the services of contracting, delivery, assembly, consolidation, unloading, and delivery of the goods, accepting the entrustment of the client, and handling the insurance, customs, and commodity inspection of the goods. , health inspection, animal and plant quarantine, import and export control and other procedures, and sometimes even have to pay and collect freight, advance taxes and government fees on behalf of the client.

By providing a variety of professional services to the client, the shipping freight forwarder service supplier can make the client not need to spend more thought and energy in the business field that he is not familiar with, so that the inconvenient or difficult to rely on their own power to deal with properly and effectively, which helps to improve the work efficiency.
3. Cost reduction effect
Shipping freight forwarder service suppliers master the market conditions of cargo transportation, warehousing, loading and unloading, and insurance, and have long-term and close friendly cooperative relations with cargo transportation stakeholders, warehousing custodians, ports, airports, stations, yard operators and insurers. With rich professional knowledge and business experience, favorable negotiating position, and skilled negotiation skills, through the efforts of shipping freight forwarder service suppliers, you can choose the best transportation route and mode of transportation for goods, strive for fair and reasonable rates, and even pass The consolidation effect benefits all parties involved, thereby reducing the business costs of those involved in the transportation of goods and improving the efficiency of their main business.