Freight Forwarding - Rules, Liability, and Compliance

About This Book

This volume distills the rulebook a forwarder must master: trade terms, carrier liability, and compliance. It starts with Incoterms® as the shared language of cost, risk, and tasks—explaining the four clusters (E/F/C/D), the 2020 refinements, and how terms drive quoting, insurance advice, and document workflows. The book translates codes into practice—naming places precisely, aligning mode and rule, and avoiding classic traps. It surveys maritime (Hague-Visby vs Hamburg), air (Warsaw vs Montreal), and land regimes (CMR, CIM), showing how low statutory limits necessitate cargo insurance. The liability core clarifies time bars, forum choices, and tackles multimodal reality. The through-line is operational: a forwarder protects clients by choosing the right term and corridor, drafting clean clauses, specifying named places, embedding TMS checks, and proactively closing insurance gaps.

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