forwarder
Americannoun
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a person or thing that forwards
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a person engaged in the bookbinding process of forwarding
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See forwarding agent
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Origin of forwarder
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“The key driver is the race to bring new computing capacity online,” said Ro Sharma, global head of cloud infrastructure and semiconductor strategy at freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel International.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"The port of Jeddah is not at all sized to handle such import volumes and a port congestion situation is emerging," Arthur Barillas de The, cofounder of freight forwarder Ovrsea, told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Broca Houy, head of compliance at Temis Luxury Group, said the company "fully complies with the laws and regulations of the United Arab Emirates for freight forwarder business".
From Reuters ● May 25, 2023
Patricia Anne Daly was born on Aug. 4, 1956, in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, where her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a freight forwarder for an import-export company.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
“We will be down as soon as we can,” said Jane; “but I dare say Kitty is forwarder than either of us, for she went up stairs half an hour ago.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Speed Kingz Recovery, where Dowdy and Caviness work, typically gets about $275 a car from forwarders, compared with about $550 when it deals directly with banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
"Higher tariffs raise costs for freight forwarders like us, as well as for factories, companies, and sellers. It just means everyone earns less."
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
Sorting through hundreds of millions of shipment records scattered across subsidiary names and freight forwarders in unstructured, error-prone data sets can be a Sisyphean effort.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
Exporters, freight forwarders and retailers started outbidding one another for a dwindling amount of space aboard cargo vessels from Asia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
But the merchants, the millers, and the forwarders of Montreal could not believe this.
From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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