Shipments rarely go exactly according to plan. A container gets held at customs, a canal reroutes traffic, a peak season surge eats up the space that was supposed to be reserved. None of this is unusual in freight forwarding. What actually separates one forwarder from another isn’t whether these moments happen. It’s what the forwarder…
A factory in Vietnam ships electronics components to a buyer in Poland. A freight forwarder in Singapore arranges the booking, issues the documentation, and manages the carrier relationship from start to finish. Yet that forwarder’s own country never touches the cargo. No port call in Singapore. No customs entry in Singapore. The shipment moves entirely…
The advent of e-commerce has irrevocably changed the world of supply chain making the freight forwarding industry more dynamic, synchronized, and technology-dependent than ever before. In today’s post, we are going to discuss how e-commerce has impacted the freight forwarding industry. The distance between freight forwarding service providers & end-users: Talking from a financial perspective,…