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Why an air freight forwarder? What is the function of air freight forwarder?

The import and export of goods by air transport (referred to as "air transport") need to go through certain procedures, such as sales, receipt, booking, documentation, customs declaration and delivery of export goods, cargo booking and then hand over to the airline at the airport of origin; Imported goods are received, received, declared, delivered or transshipped by the airline at the airport of destination. Airlines are generally not responsible for this kind of business, so the air freight forwarding industry to undertake this kind of business came into being, its main business is air freight forwarding companies.

Air cargo enterprise business can be divided into: through China Air Cargo Agency Co., LTD., or by the recipient and shipper directly to the air service company need to handle two different forms. container shipping rates As the bridge and link between the cargo owner and the employees of the aviation technology company, the air cargo agent can be the agent of the cargo owner, and replace the cargo owner to handle the booking, picking up the goods, making waybill, customs declaration, handover, etc.; It can also be an agent of the airline, receiving cargo, booking, making master waybill and issuing sub-waybill of the agent financial company for itself.

The emergence and rapid development of air freight forwarders is due to the convenience and benefits that their services bring to cargo owners and airlines.

First of all, most air freight forwarding companies are very familiar with the transport links and relevant rules and regulations, and have extensive and close contacts with civil aviation, customs, commodity inspection and transport departments, and have the relevant conditions for handling transport procedures. freight booking At the same time, air freight forwarders have branches or agents all over the world, which can contact and control the entire process of cargo transportation in a timely manner. Airlines are only responsible for transport from one airport to another. Therefore, it is more convenient to entrust an air freight forwarder to handle the import and export cargo transport than to entrust the customer to deal with the airline directly.

Second, an important economic business of air International cargo enterprise Agency Co., Ltd. is the agent of "centralized consignment" - that is, the cargo information of a number of issues separately shipped to a whole batch of goods, shipped to the same destination airport with the same general waybill, by its local agent is mainly responsible for receiving the goods, and allocated to the actual consignee of students after customs declaration. This method of data centralized consignment can obtain lower freight rates from the development of air logistics companies, and insurance agents and shippers can benefit from this technical service (Consol, split bubble, etc.).

Thirdly, as far as the airline is concerned, it can also benefit from the services of agents. Although the airline has to pay a certain fee to the agency (in the form of freight discounts), the agency has organized a batch of cargo sources for it, signed a large number of customer contracts, collected thousands of families of goods on consignment, which has saved a lot of manpower, material resources and time, thus contributing to the further development of the air transport market. At the same time, both consignee and shipper can obtain value-added services from freight forwarders conveniently and quickly, thus saving costs, improving efficiency and enhancing competitiveness.

About GSA:

There is a special type of air freight forwarder called a GSA. GSA stands for General Sales Agent, which means general sales agent. It is a general agent who sells all classes for one airline in a certain city or region. A GSA is different from a regular sales agent. In addition to earning the spread on the sale of the space, the GSA generally has stowage rights and tonnage control over the space to be loaded in that city or region by the airline it represents.

GSA is sometimes referred to as "booking a hatch" because non-GSA sales agents who want to get our National Airlines Limited shipping space must be able to go through GSA. In other words, the air logistics company only allocates the space to GSA, and GSA then sells the space to some other product sales personnel agents, in which the air service company only contacts GSA, and does not contact other market sales agents that charge GSA.