How to Use forwarder in a Sentence
forwarder
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For freight forwarders, any shipment to the United States was good business.
—Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
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Inbound, oceanborne shipments booked by freight forwarders rose 13% from the same month last year.
—Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
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The first time this thing was liberated from a park, it was tied to the roof of a car; for this trip, FA hired a freight forwarder at significant cost.
—Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2021
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So instead, the Catch Co. calendars were moved by truck to a warehouse outside the port owned by freight forwarder Flexport.
—New York Times, 31 Oct. 2021
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The results will show you whether the company is a carrier, broker or freight forwarder.
—New York Times, 8 May 2018
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Most companies chose to specialise and hand co-ordination over to the forwarders.
—The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
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The port of New Orleans and its network of brokers, freight-forwarders and warehouses employ 4,000 people alone.
—The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
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The cancellation of flights in and out of China has been so extensive that freight forwarders have had a very hard time finding any space at all on planes for their shipments.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
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Expeditors is the second big freight forwarder to be hacked in recent months.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
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The batons were imported through a freight forwarder in Illinois and had originated in Shenzhen, China.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
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Within a week, the forwarder and I had communicated back and forth through Parcl’s messaging service.
—Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2020
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Those components get trucked by the Vietnamese Railways, loaded, and then transported to the Haiphong port, where a freight forwarder ensures the container is loaded on an Ocean carrier.
—Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
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Expeditors is the world’s sixth largest freight forwarder—a middleman that helps businesses book space on trucks, container ships, and cargo planes.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
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And in November, Maersk bought Senator International, a freight forwarder that helps its clients book space on cargo planes.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 19 May 2022
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Kunis and Kutcher have matched $3 million for the fundraiser, which will benefit freight forwarder Flexport and vacation rental company Airbnb, according to the couple.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
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Brokers and freight forwarders said shippers in the first 20 days of operation faced problems booking cargo slots and communicating with the carrier.
—Costas Paris, WSJ, 11 May 2018
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People involved in the matter say the Competition Commission is going through a list of monopoly concerns raised mostly by cargo owners and freight forwarders.
—Joanne Chiu, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
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Many companies, including transportation operators and freight forwarders that manage the flow of goods, have been reluctant to share data on common platforms.
—Costas Paris, WSJ, 28 May 2019
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Freight is taking longer than ever to cross the Pacific, with goods requiring an average of 113 days to travel from Chinese factory gates to American hands, according to data from Flexport, a freight forwarder.
—David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2022
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The shipment on its way to Mexico had been sent through five separate freight forwarders, the nameless middlemen of international shipping, who handle all the paperwork and logistics of export.
—Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
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Chinese cargo already is taking longer than ever to move from the factory gate to its port of departure, almost three times as long as before the pandemic, according to data from Flexport, a freight forwarder based in San Francisco.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
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The railroad companies, the trucking companies, the forwarder and broker community are spending a lot of time repositioning those empty boxes with very little return.
—Eben Shapiro, Time, 22 Aug. 2021
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The process is still in its infancy, and will require thousands of participants from shipping companies and ports to inland freight forwarders, cargo owners, and customs and border security agencies to work as intended.
—Costas Paris, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
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For international orders, the company sends items to a freighter forwarder who handles the logistics and customs declaration paperwork.
—Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
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Ports and their customs offices are operating fairly smoothly, said several freight forwarders, who are essentially travel agents for cargo shipments.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
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Caitlin Murphy, the chief executive of Global Gateway Logistics, a freight forwarder, said small businesses in particular had been harmed by shipping practices during the pandemic, including when alliances have skipped less profitable ports.
—New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
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Pioneers like former Uber employees tackled the freight forwarder sector by founding the company Beacon, affirming its claim to a place in the logistics organization but also in retail financing.
—Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
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In November 2021, Maersk bought the freight forwarder Senator International.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
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