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freight forwarder
noun
- a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of freight forwarder1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
It’s also an airline, a trucking company, a port terminal operator, and a freight forwarder.
From Quartz
Joy Tan wrote, to the freight forwarder, on December 3, after many emails asking why the container had not moved.
From Time
Instead, it called a freight forwarder—essentially a logistics company that negotiates the best prices for shipping a single container, rather than a whole boatload of goods.
From Time
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