Freight Forwarding
An intermediary service layer between shippers and carriers that provides customers with booking, customs clearance, and coordination of ground transportation and warehousing across multimodal transport chains. It has traditionally relied heavily on manual experience and relationship networks.
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Freight forwarding is essentially an intermediary layer between shippers and carriers: it books space and handles customs clearance for customers, arranges ground transport and warehousing, and coordinates the connections among sea, air, rail and other modes of transport.
Traditional freight forwarding relies heavily on manual experience and relationship networks, whereas Flexport tries to use a digital platform to replace the information asymmetry within it.
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Freight forwarding is essentially an intermediary layer between shippers and carriers: it books space and handles customs clearance for customers, arranges ground transport and warehousing, and coordinates the connections among sea, air, rail and other modes of transport.
50%UnverifiedTraditional freight forwarding relies heavily on manual experience and relationship networks, whereas Flexport tries to use a digital platform to replace the information asymmetry within it.
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