forwarding agent

Also known as: freight forwarder

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carriage of goods law

  • Justinian I
    In carriage of goods: Freight or forwarding agents

    Shippers frequently engage the services of freight or forwarding agents, namely, persons who undertake for a reward to have the goods carried and delivered at their destination. The services of these persons are ordinarily engaged when the carriage of the goods involves successive…

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regulation

  • shipping docks and shore-based cranes
    In transportation economics: Transportation regulation and deregulation

    Freight forwarders—intermediaries who accepted small shipments from many shippers and consolidated them into larger shipments to tender to carriers—were regulated in 1942. In 1948 carrier rate bureaus, committees representing carriers that would meet to agree on rates for the industry to charge, were given immunity…

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