freight forwarder

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noun

a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.

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Also called forwarder, forwarding agent.

Origin of freight forwarder

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby freight forwarder

freightage, freight agent, freight car, freight engine, freighter, freight forwarder, freighthopping, freight house, freightliner, freight pass-through, freight ton

How to use freight forwarder in a sentence

It’s also an airline, a trucking company, a port terminal operator, and a freight forwarder.
Maersk is no longer just a shipping company|Nicolás Rivero|December 17, 2021|Quartz
Joy Tan wrote, to the freight forwarder, on December 3, after many emails asking why the container had not moved.
Why Is Everything More Expensive Right Now? Let This Stuffed Giraffe Explain|Alana Semuels|August 17, 2021|Time
Instead, it called a freight forwarder—essentially a logistics company that negotiates the best prices for shipping a single container, rather than a whole boatload of goods.
Why Is Everything More Expensive Right Now? Let This Stuffed Giraffe Explain|Alana Semuels|August 17, 2021|Time
Up in the tower, Bucca was joined by Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, who had managed to get a freight elevator to bring him part way.
The Flying New York Fireman Who Shined on 9/11|Michael Daly|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Toledo is a tough city, a factory town, a freight train junction, a lake steamer port.
Toledo: The Town Too Tough for Toxic Water|P. J. O’Rourke|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But a year later he was back home in New Orleans and back on the docks, handling freight on ships bound for the Gulf of Mexico.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou|John Ed Bradley|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bette would “have no choice” but to pay the extra, socialistic freight.
Health Care's Resistors and Adapters|Michael Tomasky|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“She seemed to indicate she had worked at Stapleton Air Freight,” he said.
Lost and Found in Tijuana: Behind an Amazing American Rescue|Christine Pelisek|September 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We made the freight camp, however, just as the storm cut loose in deadly earnest.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
You know that if there was anything they wanted they weren't taking any risk by going to any freight camp.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Faintly outlined among the trees, Jess saw an old freight or box car.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
By sheer good fortune a big tree stump stood under the door of the freight car, or the children never could have opened it.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
They could see nothing at all, for the freight car was tightly made, and all outside was nearly as black as night.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner