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Understanding the Operations of Freight Forwarders
| 题名： | Understanding the Operations of Freight Forwarders |
| 责任者： | Mendoza Alcantara, Alejandra<=>Fernandes, Ana M.<=>Hillberry, Russell |
| 关键词： | Law and Development；Trade Law；Transport and Trade Logistics；Industry；Common Carriers Industry；Transport Security；Transport；Transport；Transport Economics & Policy Planning |
| 学科分类： | 交通运输规划与管理 |
| 摘要： | Freight forwarders play a key role in moving goods across international borders. They arrange transport, oversee customs clearance on behalf of their clients, and more generally troubleshoot issues that arise while goods are in transit. This paper reports the results from a survey of 153 freight forwarding firms in Serbia. Respondents report on firm characteristics, operational choices, and conditions at the border posts and terminals where imported goods are cleared for release. One key purpose of the study is to investigate operational trade-offs between time and cost that arise when import shipments are in transit. In three of four hypotheticals, respondents suggest that money savings dominate time savings. Responses regarding real operational decisions such as route choices reinforce this finding. Respondents also reported penalty rates for late delivery of import shipments as well as the value of a typical import shipment. From these responses, it is estimated that the contracted value of one additional (unexpected) day of delivery time in Serbia appears to be approximately 1 percent of the value of the underlying shipment. |
| 出版机构： | World Bank |
| 报告类型： | 咨询报告 |
| 详细地址： | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24648773/understanding-operations-freight-forwarders-evidence-serbia |
| 资源类型： | 科技（咨询、行业）报告 |
| 初始创建时间： | 2015-06 |
| 最新修改时间： | 2017-12-14T04:07:36Z |
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