Sea Freight Forwarder

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The sea freight forwarder is a third party logistics company who provides the end to end logistics solutions to its customers I order to move ship cargo via sea/water. Sea freight forwarder provides varieties of services where customer has the ability to select the services they want. They make sure to deliver the goods at destination by providing real time information to customers with the support of their state of the art technologies.
09 Services Offered by Sea Freight Forwarder
We will list down the services of sea freight forwarders. Yet every forwarder may not be able to provide all the services.
Act as the shipper for their customers’ cargo
Cargo packing, labeling, palliating, marking
Stuffing and de stuffing of cargo
Handle import and export customs formalities
Prepare/obtain international trade documents on customer’s behalf
Reserve and negotiate freight rates with the carrier
Transportation of freight from customer’s door step to the port and wise ver sa
Coordinate with both consignee and consignor and provide cargo updates
Facilitate with shipment tracking details, online quotes and 27 X7 customer care service

Sea Freight Forwarder Vs Shipper
Now you are clear on the role of sea freight forwarder. The Cambridge dictionary has elaborated the shipper as” A person or company whose job is to organize the sending of goods from one place to another”.  So any one who transport goods become a shipper. As forwarder act as the agent of their customer to transport goods, sea freight forwarder becomes a shipper.
Do not forget… Sea freight forwarder is a customer of the shipping line. The carrier transport the cargo of freight forwarder, in that carrier (NVOCC) also becomes a shipper.
Sea Freight Forwarder Vs Logistics Broker
Logistics broker is any party who provides logistics solutions to its customers. Hence, the logistics broker is another name for sea freight forwarder same as freight broker
05 Disadvantages of Sea Freight Forwarder
They act as an intermediary party between cargo owner and the carrier. During a dispute with carrier it is very difficult to resolve the issue for actual cargo owner as sea freight forwarder is the cargo owner of the goods handed owner to the carrier and not the actual owner
The control of shipping, deliver time and container shut outs are out of the control of freight forwarder in most cases and they are depend on the decisions of carrier
Risk of loosing confidentiality on prices offered to consignee, and consignee details as same will be shared with sea freight forwarder
Sea freight forwarder console small shipments (LCL) to one container for shipping. If any dispute arise or hold by customs for any reason other cargo owners also have to suffer as the whole container will be hold
All the intermediary costs (THC: Terminal Handling Charges, Security scanning cost) will be pass down to the customer

Even there are disadvantages of using sea freight forwarders, sometimes, you may have no choice but to select them. So carefully analyses the industry players before you entrust sea freight forwarder for your business.

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