For shippers with air freight shipments, it is a good time fly the cargo. Fuel surcharges that varied from $ 1 to 1.15 per kilo have lessen for a few carriers down to $ 0.80 per kilo & up to $ 1.00 per kilo. Will this down trend persist? The industry will have to wait to see how low the oil price per barrel.

International freight forwarding and shipping are commonly used terms, and the differences between the meanings of each are subtle to a degree, with some overlapping functions involved in the processes.  For instance, both have in common that they involve:

At which point, do shippers need to switch their less than a container (LCL) shipment into a full container load (FCL)?

Huge overseas cargo ships steaming through the night.

When we think of giant ocean liners, huge cargo shipping, see those pictures of sea captains in their uniforms and recall the ambiance portrayed in movies like The Titanic (with its story of young love and tragedy) sea voyages hold a certain kind of mystery whether they are passenger ships or cargo ships moving freight across the wide oceans in the middle of the night.

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ETC International Might Be A Freight Forwarding Company In California But Our Network Goes Far Beyond The Coastline.

Delays & Strikes Affect International Freight Forwarding Company

Importers & exporters with containerized shipments delayed

About 200 striking union workers of the Colon Container Terminal (CCT) are keeping the entrance to the port closed, demanding improvements to their collective bargaining agreement, compliance with the Labor Code, and changes to internal rules. Felix Ross, the union's finance secretary, said they continue this fight to the bitter end, despite threats made against them. A somewhat common obstacle of an international freight forwarding company.