In the import and export business, shipping, delivery, storage, customs declaration, and insurance of procedure is quite complicated, require handling fully familiar with the business. The emergence of international cargo agents, solved the difficulties for the import and export business.
International Freight forwarding (International Freight Forwarder) main job is to accept the entrust of the principal or authorized, charge all kinds of International trade, transport of goods needed for business. According to the international freight forwarders association (deep) data is introduced, the role of an international freight forwarder is:

Use specialized knowledge to the safest, most quickly, the most economical way to transport organization.
In the world trade center building customer network and their branches, to control the whole transport process. In freight, packaging, documents, customs clearance, consular requirements and financial aspects of the enterprise.

Focus your small batch of goods for the unitized cargo, enable customers to benefit from it. Freight forwarder to organize and coordinate transportation not only, and affect the innovation of the mode of transportation and the development of new transport routes.

International freight forwarder in China has been developing rapidly since SO s, in addition to the China national foreign trade transportation corporation, charter companies in China, and China ocean shipping agency, there are a large number of state-owned and sino-foreign joint venture of the international freight forwarding company, state in June 1995 announced regulations on international freight agents, to regulate and strengthen the management of the industry.