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the choices of freight forwarder

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Seaway transportation is the main channel of international cargo transport, 90% cargos are carried by seaway in international trade. The seaway transportation not only includes the process and a series of documents and formalities, but also involves transport laws of the parties, freight forwarder is one of them. For the freight forwarder, it is important to be able to distinguish the various formalities shipping chimney and provide reliable forwarding services to shippers. For consignors, choose suitable freight forwarder means choosing a well-known shipping business partner and the transport way for the trade contract, therefore, the consignor can fulfill the legal obligations of the trade contract effectively, to protect themselves as the shippers and their interests.

1. Freight forwarders must know the transport type applicability for different cargos
There are four modes of transport in world shipping market: the liner, charter, NVOCC and multimodal transport. The liner shipping character is fixed time, fixed route, fixed port order and fixed rates. The charter shipping is occasional transport, no fixed routes and timetables, can be engaged in operations on any route in accordance with the shipping market supply and demand relationship, freight can be negotiable, it& acute;s suitable for bulk cargo transport.
2. Freight forwarders should know different ship types adaptability for the shipper& acute;s goods.
As a freight forwarder, you must understand the ship characteristics, such as the ship& acute;s register country, tonnage, gross registered tons (GRT), net registered tons (NRT), bulk cellar, packaging cellar, total deadweight tons (DWT), the load line, ship level etc. For better, the freight forwarder also need to know the vessel types, such as line

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