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Converting Sales Lead to Order in Freight Forwarding Once upon a time there lived a forwarder who was acknowledged as a very good designer of the shipping process. The name of the forwarder was Sef and he has owned a small company working alone from home. His company was SSF – Small Size Forwarder – do you remember). What…
Marketing and Sales funnel in the freight forwarding In previous post we have walked together with Sef through the whole marketing and sales process in freight forwarding. There are many articles about marketing and sales but only few if I can remember about marketing and sales in freight forwarding. That is why I would like to deepen…
Selling Freight Forwarding Services 2 months ago I have posted the article Converting sales lead to order – forwarders tale. In this post I have tried to attract the attention of the forwarding community to an important but highly undervalued process. The process of sales. As any process the process of sales has an input which…
The Small Size Freight Forwarders I am receiving a good deal of news concerning the freight forwarding and logistics. In all this news however, the word is about only the big names in our industry. Yes, exactly the guys that boast with their hundreds of millions or billions dollars of annual revenues who handle big…
The Resources of Small Size Forwarders I would like to continue the topic about the small sized forwarders. We all agree that the SME forwarders are more flexible than the bigger forwarding companies however they lack the resources and the buying power of the bigger forwarders. But is this the real case. Should the SSF…
Security measures in air cargo transportation – over-reaction or necessity “The threats of terrorism we face are serious and evolving,” Secretary Napolitano said of the new measures in a press release, “These security measures reflect our commitment to using current intelligence to stay ahead of adversaries-working closely with our international, federal, state, local and private…
Risks, obligations, jurisdictions of the Bill of Lading Recently I have followed an interesting discussion in Freight and Logistics Professionals group of Linkedin. The discussion has been opened by Mr. René Woestenburg and the topic is: Did you ever read the backside ( risks, obligations, jurisdictions ) of you Bills of Lading. The discussion attracted many interesting comments from…
Planning of an airfreight shipment In our last blog we have discussed the elements of the freight quote. Today we will move forward. Assume the quote is accepted and load is tendered to the shipping agent. What happens next? I would split air shipping in three main stages: 1. Before arrival at origin airport2. Between origin and…
Ocean shipping container dimensions Ocean shipping container dimensions vary by container type and directly affect how much cargo you can load. Understanding the internal dimensions, door openings, and payload limits helps you plan your shipment and avoid costly mistakes. Depending on the type of the commodity, requirements for transportation, packaging, security, there are different types…
