Nowadays more than 80 % of all the cargos are delivered by sea and about 90% of the marine fleet deals with the export shipping. With this high turnover volume, the uniform documentation and goods (transported by sea) registration system is of great importance.

“What is to be done?” – anyone who has come across the problem of freight forwarding must have asked himself this perennial question first posed by Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Let us see what exactly “freight forwarding” is and what its essence is.

The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines “forwarding” as “sending or passing goods or information to somebody”.

Russian law on international freight forwarding defines the term “international freight forwarding” to mean freight forwarding in which the point of origin and the point of destination are located in two different countries.

International freight forwarding. Behind these words hides an entire system of operations, a veritable production line requiring coordinated efforts of dozens of people. To understand the scale of what is meant by international freight forwarding, let’s break it down into distinct steps. It is indeed an impressive operation, for this sequence of processes – that appear simple, but in fact require a lot of attention, concentration, and fast decision-making – cannot fail to impress.