{"id":2591,"date":"2023-03-08T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/uncategorized\/full-guide-freight-forwarding-definition-services-reasons-faq\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:21:05","slug":"full-guide-freight-forwarding-definition-services-reasons-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/shipping\/full-guide-freight-forwarding-definition-services-reasons-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"A full guide to freight forwarding: definition, services, reasons and FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2591\" class=\"elementor elementor-2591\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45f1419c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45f1419c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cec88da0\" data-id=\"cec88da0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db577ed7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"db577ed7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p><p>With the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>explosion of online sales<\/strong><\/span>, many people are embarking on this emotionally rich adventure. However, they only think that a website will be enough to manage everything. However, it is necessary to know and understand the<span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong> field of freight forwarding,<\/strong><\/span> which is not so simple! Indeed, it is often complicated to<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> manage the supply chain of its products :<\/strong><\/span> through the several phases of sourcing, shipping and 3PL. Especially while keeping the control of your goods on several thousand kilometers. It is also necessary to find out the type of <span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong>incoterms<\/strong> <\/span>to use according to the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>type of goods shipped<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, <span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong>DocShipper<\/strong><\/span>, the<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> international logistics specialist<\/strong><\/span>, takes care of everything from A to Z. A good freight forwarder is essential for the <span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong>success<\/strong><\/span> of your business. Imagine being overwhelmed with requests, with sales growing rapidly but your goods not arriving on time, this would be a disaster for <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>customer satisfaction.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong>DocShipper&#8217;s shipping service<\/strong><\/span> is one of the most <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>complete and trustworthy business partners in the market.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0You get <span style=\"color: #0e465f;\"><strong>real-time, customizable tracking<\/strong><\/span>. So with that in mind, we want to teach you a little more about <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>freight forwarding<\/strong><\/span>, the benefits of it and how it works. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/shipping\/full-guide-freight-forwarding-definition-services-reasons-faq\/#more-2591\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading A full guide to freight forwarding: definition, services, reasons and FAQ\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the explosion of online sales, many people are embarking on this emotionally rich adventure. However, they only think that a website will be enough to manage everything. However, it is necessary to know and understand the field of freight forwarding, which is not so simple! Indeed, it is often complicated to manage the supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docshipper.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}