The increased activity of freight forwarders and the expanded diversity of their work are striking facts of modern carriage of goods. This increase is a result of the container revolution, the emergence of multimodal systems of inland carriers, terminal owners and sea carriers, the long term over-availability of tonnage in the world shipping market coincidental and the rapid and unprecedented development of the global logistics industry. Freight forwarders have fitted into this new global logistics order and hence their new importance.
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