Where is the industry value of international freight forwarding reflected?

Not long ago, I had a chat with a friend who has worked in an international freight company for most of his life. He said he has attended many beverage and dining events over the past 20 years to attract customers. He has made some contributions to stimulating domestic demand and consumption. Finally, where is the industry value of freight forwarding reflected?




Every day's work is walking around the bottom of airlines and shipping companies. Location and shipping have always been at the heart of everyone's attention and competition. It's all about relationships with upstream shipping providers. After acquiring core resources, hire a large group of salespeople to sell them. I feel like I'm either having fun every day, or I'm on my way to having fun every day.

The bigger the freight forwarder, the more manpower the company has. Wages are rising for operations, documentation, customer service, financial and other service jobs that are often highly dependent on labor-intensive industries. The profits of international freight companies mainly come from the difference in freight, service fees and operations. As the industry became more Internet-based, information became more transparent, and differences in freight rates faded away, an air cargo ticket was often sold directly to the outside world for cost plus 350 cents.

Service fees mainly come from providing customs declaration, inspection, booking, documents, trailers and other links. With the merger of customs, commodity inspection and online declarations, many customs brokers have seen their profits plummet and are on the verge of survival. The operation link mainly depends on the volume-to-weight ratio of the commodity and the cost-optimized profit brought by the scale effect. At present, the core profits of a large number of international freight forwarders actually come from the operation link.

The core reasons for the existence of international freight forwarders are the opacity of frequent changes in freight rates, large position variables that are difficult to guarantee, long and complex transportation chain links, incomplete visualization of freight tracks, ineffective access to upstream and downstream data in the industry, offline Manual reconciliation of transactions and existence of accounting periods.