What do GBS Freight do?
We specialise in facilitating the local customs handling and clearance procedures and the movement of cargo and merchandise to and from destinations around the world.
What is the difference between a freight forwarder and a logistics company?
“A freight forwarder company represents and manages the imports and exports of a person or business. While a logistics expert can offer to deliver the shipments themselves, it is not common.”
What is freight management logistics?
Frieght Management is the process of overseeing and managing a cost-efficient operation and delivery of goods. Freight management combines logistics experience, human resources and knowledge to ensure a smooth coordination between carriers and shippers.
What are marine terminal services?
These services include: checking, dockage, free time, handling, heavy lift, loading and unloading, terminal storage, usage, wharfage, and wharf demurrage and including any marine terminal facilities that may be provided incidentally to such marine terminal services.
What is FMC regulations?
Definitions. The FMC regulations regulate the activities of Ocean Transport Intermediaries (OTIs) in the US. The FMC regulations define OTI to include two classes of logistics service providers: (1) ocean freight forwarders and (2) non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs).
How do logistics companies work?
Logistics companies help organizations plan, implement, and execute the movement and storage of products, materials, and services throughout the supply chain from the point of origin to the point of consumption. This might include transportation, shipping, warehousing, packaging, disposal, and security.
What do logistics companies do?
Logistics companies plan, implement, and control the movement and storage of goods, services, or information within a supply chain and between the points of origin and consumption. A proper supply chain may include transportation, shipping, receiving, storage, and management of all or one of these functions.
What is logistics freight and delivery?
The terms logistics and freight are generally associated with the movement and transportation of goods by several different modes of transport including air, ocean, rail, and truck.
What does a marine terminal operator do?
Marine Terminal Operators (MTOs) provide wharfage, dock, warehouse, or other marine terminal facilities to ocean common carriers moving cargo in the ocean-borne, foreign commerce of the United States.
What is the difference between terminal and port?
A port is a station used for commercial and trade activities such as loading and unloading cargoes and other activities that generate income. In contrast, a terminal is like a “checkpoint” on a port where incoming shipments are thoroughly inspected and documented. Thus, we have as many terminals as possible on a port.