What Information Does A Forwarding Agent Need?
A smooth delivery
To make sure that everything goes smoothly right from the start, we’ve put together a checklist of basic information that forwarding agents require to export your goods:
- Destination address: Preferably including the post code or zip code
- Weight: Total consignment weight and, where relevant and possible, individual weights
- Size: Total cubic metres of the consignment plus sizes of individual goods
- Nature of goods: Inform the forwarding agent of hazardous or dangerous goods or if the goods require special treatment e.g. frozen goods.
- Terms of sale: Always use INCOTERMS
- Insurance: Is insurance required? If so make sure that you and the forwarding agent are aware of who is responsible for arranging the insurance – the exporter, importer or forwarding agent
- Letter of credit: Make the forwarding agent aware if a letter of credit is involved
- Service required: Make sure the forwarding agent is aware of any urgent deadlines or if you have a preference as to how the consignment should be sent e.g. air, road, sea
- When available: Let the forwarding agent know when the goods are available for collection and dispatch e.g. immediately, tomorrow, next week
- Where available: Give the forwarding agent the full address of the location from which the goods can be collected for dispatch
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If you’d like to know more about how Future Forwarding can work with you to ensure your export needs are met please call +44 113 281 0050 or complete our online contact form.
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