Freight Forwarding
● At ALPL Freight forwarding is the planning and coordinating of the movement of commodities across international borders on behalf of shippers.
● Nature of Business: It is a service based company.
● A forwarder does not move the goods but acts as an expert in the logistics network.
● In simple terms, a freight forwarder is an agent responsible for the movement of goods on behalf of the cargo owner.
Modes of Freight Transportation
● There are four major types of freight transportation available for shippers to use in the world of freight shipping.
The primary ones are by:
● Ground (road)
● Rail
● Ocean
● Air
● Although these are the main categories of freight transportation, each method has their own process that differ from other.
Importer
For customs purpose, the party who makes or on whose behalf agent broker the import declaration and who is the liable payment of duties on the imported goods. Normally this party is named either as the consignee in the shipping documents are the buyer in the exporter invoice.
Exporter
For customs purposes the party who makes or on whose behalf agent the export declaration. The exporter sells its goods to someone in another country known as an exporter.
Haulage
Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail. It includes the horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies, and waste, also called cartage. The transport of the same which carries is called hoisting.
Custom House Agent
● A Custom House Agent (CHA) is licensed to act as an agent for transaction of any business relating to the entry or departure of the import or export of cargoes at a custom agent.
● They give commercial license, packing list and certificate of origin.
Co-load process
● Co loading term used in the export and import trade especially in the area freight forwarding they will transfer cargo which from his customers to the other freight forwarder.
● This process is done when the freight forwarder doesn’t have a service.
● They have service but unfortunately, they can’t able to form a console when cargo is overflowing.