What Is Blind Shipping and How Does It Work
In freight, blind shipping is a delivery arrangement where the identity of the shipper, the receiver, or both is deliberately kept off the shipping documents so that one party cannot see who the other is. It sounds like a technicality, but for distributors and resellers it protects something valuable: the supplier relationships their business depends […]
What Is a Freight Forwarder and What Do They Actually Do
Anyone who ships goods internationally runs into the term freight forwarder quickly, but what a forwarder actually does is often unclear. Are they a carrier? A broker? A shipping company? The short answer is that a freight forwarder is the party that organizes and coordinates the movement of your goods from origin to destination, without […]