Freight Forwarders control the entire transaction of transporting goods from the manufacturer or supplier to the customer. In today’s fast-paced and competitive market, this could be an ideal career for young people of either sex, graduates in IT, business, management or languages.

Some of your responsibilities would include:

• Unburden shippers with their complete supply chain by offering efficient logistics solutions, ranging from air, sea, road, rail to warehouse solutions.
• You would negotiate contracts with airlines and handling companies.
• Liaise with the client or shipper.
• Arrange packaging of goods transportation.
• Find the best solution to each shipment including insurance and handling.
• Manage the transaction by IT and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).
• Provide internet technology for tracking the goods.
• Deal with customs.
• Use imagination and tact to handle special cargo’s such as pharmaceuticals, telecom equipment and even live animals.
• Maintain communication and control of all phases of the shipment.

You would work with companies and individuals in many other countries and cultures. Moreover your customers are from different industries. You would need to be flexible and energetic and be willing to consider overseas assignments, depending on the size of the company.

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