The Forwarding Agent
The forwarder, also called the mediator of transport and logistics. The forwarder knows everything and everyone who has to deal with the complexity of the market. If something needs to be arranged then that is no problem for the forwarding agent. Mediate, act, stress, think in solutions, trouble shooting, gas, and all while keeping the carriers and customers happy. That is beautiful!
The forwarder uses various logistics service providers and transport companies. The freight forwarder gets her cargo booked in all sorts of ways.
Are you looking for a new challenge as a forwarder?
As a freight forwarder, it is important that you keep abreast of everything. Whether you ship cargo by sea, air, rail or road, with all modalities there are different requirements and points to pay attention to.
In the time of today you see that more and more freight forwarders 'switch' from employers because they would like to gain more experience from other modalities. Freight forwarders who now work at sea freight offices are now looking for a challenge at a large warehouse. Logistics employees learn to become forwarding agents precisely because they want to act and troubleshoot. The logistics offer so many opportunities and possibilities and you are crazy if you do not use them. Develop yourself, start earning more.
Are you also looking for a new challenge?
How does WIKI see us?
'' A forwarder is an organizer of sending goods. This is much broader than merely transporting goods from one place to another. In addition to the actual transport, the forwarder also handles a lot of administrative formalities such as requesting the necessary permits, price requests and comparisons, negotiating prices and booking shipments at shipping companies, organization of road transport, storage of goods, organization from groupage of small batches of goods, fulfilling any customs formalities, coordination between all parties involved, and so on.
A forwarder can be called an architect of sending goods. He is the intermediate station between the shipper (the shipper of the goods) and the actual transporter (for example a shipping company or an airline company). A freight forwarding company is located in the "tertiary sector" and thus provides services to third parties.
Various specialisms have emerged within the expedition world:
A large proportion of the forwarding companies focus on land transport (in particular road transport, but also rail transport)
Seaport forwarders book containers at shipbrokers and coordinate pre- and after-transport over land
Air freight forwarders act as agents of airlines when booking air freight
Customs forwarders take care of the import and export documents and pay customs duties on behalf of the customer.
There is an overlap in the functions: the forwarders who organize international transports often act as customs forwarder.
The interest organization for freight forwarders in the Netherlands is FENEX [1]. ''
Thus WIKIPEDIA> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expediteur
