Freight Forwarder definition and type of services

Freight forwarding is the process of arranging and coordinating the transportation of a shipment of commodities across international and national borders for the shipper. Some companies such as CKL Cargo offer other services including warehouse, distribution center, customs, cargo insurance, export/import clearance services, and customs brokerage. Exports and imports create lucrative opportunities for companies that have the ability to implement strategic logistics plans.

Freight forwarders play a crucial function in the industry of transportation as they help companies simplify processes for shipping their goods. Importing and exporting goods can be costly and time-consuming for companies with large shipping requirements, and freight forwarders can assist companies in reducing expenses and improve efficiency of operations.

Some experts argue that freight forwarding is a strategic logistics planning and implementation activity that focuses on the international transportation of goods for the benefit of the shipper. Usually a freight forwarding company like this can have discussions about shipping rates as well as container tracking as well as customs documentation and consignment consolidation, among other tasks.

Type of freight forwarding Services

1. Air Freight Service
2. Road Freight Service
3. Sea Freight Service
4. Contract Logistics

Air Freight Service

These kinds of service is able to deliver goods fast further than truck, ships, or trains, since they can transport thousands of miles. While this could be one of the more expensive choices for delivering products, but this type of services will be saving your time.

Road Freight Service

This method is really flexible and affordable than other services and commonly used for deliver products and other items to their customers. Delivery with vans and trucks are the option, which could take anywhere between a few minutes and an entire day, depending on roads and traffic conditions.

This kind of services really suit for location in Europe or Indonesia, especially in Intra Jawa Sumatera (Java Island and Sumatera) cause have a good infrastructure.

Sea Freight Service

One of the largest cargo operations across the globe involves making use of cargo vessels that are the largest sea vessel around the globe. Cargo ships transport thousands of tonnes of goods each day on a regular basis, and travel across oceans and seas to arrive at their destinations.

It is among the most efficient methods of moving bulk goods and supplies across various nations and regions from and to Indonesia. It is possible to move more goods due to the volume of cargo ships can carry.

There are two type of services in sea freight:

Less than Container Load (LCL) - Used to transport smaller quantities of goods and supplies, these small pieces of cargo will not fill up all the container, but only charge you for the space that is taken up in one container.

Full Container Load (FCL) - This service is available for goods that could fill the size of a single container. This is the ideal choice for bulk orders because it's more economical than other freight services.

Contract & Project Logistics

Contract & project logistics involves different vendor of management. To put it simply, It is a term used to describe outsourcing activity of tasks that include logistics planning and designing supply chains, rent a warehouses, designing facilities, moving and distributing products with various type of freight (land, sea, or air), processing orders and collecting payment as well as managing inventory, and providing specific elements of service to customers.

In CKL, we provide to manage your project logistics that require a combination of different transportation solutions from Air Freight, Sea Freight and/or Land Freight.