The Ultimate Guide for Freight Forwarding
You can find all the information you need about freight forwarding on our website, whether you’re trying to book the service or find out exactly what our freight forwarding agents do.
Here is a four-question guide for clarifying your questions about Freight Forwarding.
- What is Freight Forwarding?
Most importers and exporters use freight forwarding to arrange freight shipments. Licensed forwarders understand the end-to-end shipping process and can handle it on your behalf. In many ways, they are like travel agents for freight.
- Freight Forwarding Services?
Prepare all the paperwork, make the bookings, arrange payments required for each sector of the shipment, provide a customs brokerage service, and troubleshoot if any issues arrive with the shipment.
- Do I Need a Freight Forwarder?
Booking a shipment can take place in a variety of ways. Depending on your business needs, you may need specific services. Here are some options: go it alone, your supplier arranges the whole shipment, to arrange shipment from the factory or foreign port, you hire a freight forwarder.
- Requesting a Freight Quote
Do you have your goods ready to ship?
Make sure that you have the full addresses for pickup if the shipment is door to door.
You likely need to provide the name of the port of origin.
Provide the total weight of the shipment.
Provide total cubic volume.
International freight works with HS Codes.
Businesses exporting shipments need to know the Schedule B code.
If you have any queries call us at +353 1 533 7772 or email us at [email protected].
