What factors do cargo owners choose to pay attention to?

Cargo transportation by sea is the main mode of international transportation. About 90% of the goods in international trade are carried by sea. The carriage of goods by sea includes not only the process and a series of documents, but also the parties involved in the transportation law. The freight forwarder is one of them. As far as freight forwarding is concerned, it is important to be able to identify the various procedures for shipping chimneys in order to provide good shipping services to shippers. As the cargo owner, the proper choice of freight forwarder means that the appropriate maritime transporter who is familiar with the shipping business and the transportation method suitable for the trade contract are selected, so that the legal obligations stipulated in the trade contract can be effectively fulfilled, thereby protecting their rights as the owner of the goods.

Savvy shippers will choose those reputable freight forwarders. The following factors can usually be considered for the choice of freight forwarding:

First, the freight forwarder must be familiar with the common sense of maritime geography.

First of all, as an international freight forwarder, since ships enter different countries, they should be familiar with world geography and routes, the location of the port, the transshipment site and its inland distribution center. Secondly, freight forwarders should also understand the mode of international trade and its development trend, the flow of goods, etc., such as Western Europe and the United States, Canada, Japan and other countries with higher industrialization, a large number of imports of raw materials from developing countries, and export industrial systems to these countries. Finished product.

Second, the freight forwarder should be familiar with the applicability of different types of transport methods to the goods.

There are four modes of transportation in the world shipping market: liner shipping, chartering, non-vessel carrier transport and multimodal transport. The characteristics of liner transportation are fixed time, fixed route, fixed port order and fixed rate. Chartered transport means non-scheduled transport. It means that there is no fixed route and timetable. According to the supply and demand relationship of the shipping market, it can operate on any route. The freight rate can be negotiated and is suitable for bulk bulk cargo transportation. A non-vessel carrier is a carrier engaged in regular operations, but does not own or operate a ship required for maritime transportation. The non-vessel carrier is the carrier's identity relative to the actual shipper, but is the shipper relative to the actual carrier. identity of. For the owner or shipper, choosing the appropriate mode of transportation depends on whether the freight forwarder is skilled in the following aspects:

1. The periodicity of transportation services, if the goods must be shipped out within a certain fixed time, the liner transportation should be selected; 2. The transportation speed; 3. The transportation cost, when the transportation time and transportation speed are not the main factors considered by the shipper or the cargo owner. When the freight rate becomes more important; 4, the reliability of transportation, the choice of the shipping company to be entrusted to the shipping company should examine its strength and credibility, to reduce the possibility of maritime fraud and become a victim; 5, operating conditions and responsibilities On the surface, a ship owner has ownership of the ship, and in fact he mortgages the ship to the bank and becomes an operator through a contract with the bank. This will have a negative impact on the interests of shippers in the future when the goods transport disputes are brought to court.

Third, the freight forwarder should understand the adaptability of different types of ships to the cargo owner.

As a freight forwarder, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of the ship, such as the country of registration and tonnage of the ship, gross registered tons (GRT), net registered tons (NRT), bulk rafts, packaging rafts, total deadweight tons (DWT), load lines, class Other aspects of knowledge. The preferred freight forwarder should also be aware of several types of cargo ships, such as liners, semi-container ships, semi-tray ships, bulk carriers, ro-ro ships and full container ships. The third-generation container ship has a capacity of 2000-3000 TEU and can pass through the Panama Canal, so it is also called a Panamax ship. Ships of the fourth generation and have greater capacity for carrying containers are not suitable for passing through the Bana Canal, often referred to as super-bar-type vessels.