In the continental United States, there are over 16,000 freight brokers and freight broker agents who handle the logistics of moving cargo and goods throughout the country. These professionals may be a smaller brokerage who handles the shipping for a particular...
Most small business owners rely on UPS, FedEx, or USPS (United States Postal Service) to ship their products to their customers. However, there are other companies known as freight brokers who can also ship packages for small businesses and possibly remove the stress...
Drayage is a service within intermodal shipping that specializes in the movement of cargo short distances. Because this form of shipping is mostly by ground, it fills an important gap between the import or export of goods by facilitating the loading or unloading of...
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was formed in 1919, and one of its first projects was to begin to formulate a comprehensive way to communicate rules for trade goods for export among the many nations of the world. Between 1936 and 1990, the research and...
The business of shipping cargo either nationally or internationally, requires the coordination and expertise of everyone involved in getting the manufactured goods from the factory to the buyer. The cargo and freight agent can be found in warehouses, receiving...
