I want to understand what a freight forwarder does 20

Freight **, is to help import and export companies or factories with import and export rights to export goods to all over the world, or import from abroad to various ports in China, transportation includes sea, air and land transportation, and then specifically divided into sea export, sea import, air export, air import, domestic land transport and foreign land transport.

It's tiring, but it's also able to exercise people.

Freight**. Responsible for arranging export goods.

Freight forwarding is all about freight**. Not the actual carrier of the shipping company. That is, logistics (third party) and freight companies are essentially the same.

Basic concept of freight**.

1. The definition of the International Federation of Freight Associations is that the person who collects the goods for the benefit of the customer according to the instructions of the customer is not the carrier. Freight forwarders can also engage in activities related to the contract of carriage under these conditions, such as storage, customs declaration, acceptance, and collection.

2. The definition of the implementation rules of China's international freight forwarding regulations is: the first enterprise of international freight transportation can be the first person to be the consignee and consignor of import and export goods, and can also be engaged in international freight forwarding business as an independent operator.

International freight forwarding enterprises engaged in international freight business as a person refers to the international freight enterprise accepting the entrustment of the consignee, consignor or its own person to handle the relevant business in the name of the principal or its own name, and collect the first fee or commission.

As an independent operator engaged in international freight business, the international freight enterprise accepts the entrustment of the consignee, consignor or its incoming and outgoing goods, issues transport documents, performs the transportation contract and collects freight and service charges.

Freight forwarding is import and export booking, customs declaration. ** for inspection and trailer.

There are two kinds of goods in the freight forwarding, one can be transported, one is not transportable, of course, the unlucky ones such as irregular goods or body bridge files are not regular or the quality is not regular.

What cannot be transported refers to some expressly prohibited, or dangerous goods, which cannot be transported, and some can be solved through legal customs declaration.

Generation is **.

The process of doing freight forwarding:

1. Inquiry and **:

The freight forwarder needs to consult with the shipping company first, and then report the obtained ** to the customer. From here, it can be seen that the freight forwarder is the intermediary between the cargo owner and the carrier, 2. Confirm booking:

When passing the booking, you need to write the name of the company, the port of destination, how many cabinets, what cabinet type, the name of the product, which ship to match, and the negotiated **. In addition, for the benefit of both parties to have a guarantee, it should be stamped with an official seal.

3. Booking with the shipping company:

As a freight forwarder, after receiving the booking, you should let the shipping company arrange the space according to the customer's requirements, that is, "booking".

4. The shipping company puts s o:

After the shipping company confirms that there is a cabin, it needs to put the so to the freight forwarder. S O refers to ShippingOrder, which means booking list, also known as loading instructions, unloading paper. s o is very important, it is the voucher for container pick-up and loading.

5. Take the S o Cabinet:

After getting the SO, you need to place an order according to the instructions written on the SO, and go to the designated place to pick up the cabinet. The reason why you need to place an order is because you can only get the cabinet number and seal number after placing an order. Of course, there are also some shipping companies that can go directly to the container without you making an order.

You should pay special attention to this.

6. Do Minjing cabinet and return cabinet:

To make a cabinet is to load containers, commodity inspection and customs declaration. Returning the container at the time of export refers to the return of the goods to the yard after loading, and refers to the return of the empty container when importing.

7. Customs declaration: customs declaration is undoubtedly the most important link, and the most headache when customs declaration is to encounter the cabinet. In particular, there is a high chance of being inspected on the day of customs cut-off, so it is necessary to put the customs declaration matters on the agenda as soon as possible.

8. Single: Single: Single-to-order means that the three parties need to be single, the freight forwarder and the guest are right, and the shipping company and the freight forwarder are right.

9. Payment: After the end, it is the payment link. Before payment, it also involves the issue of debitnote, which is a bill issued by the party receiving the payment to the party who pays the payment, and the shipping company needs to open a debitnote to the freight forwarder, and the freight forwarder also needs to open a debitnote to the customer.

The above are the main processes of the freight forwarding business.