A Study On The Marine Market And Tendency Of The Freight Forwarder Industry

It is only more than ten years' history that the freight forwarder has been to an industry in China. The Freight forwarder was always the dominant station from foundation of China to the youth of opening reformation. Until the 1990s, especially after the talk of Deng Xiaoping in south China and the opening of the 14th party meeting, the government office issued the notice named reform international shipping transportation , which permitted to free the freight forwarder, shipping agency, and multi-agency, encourage competition to improve the service quality . China freight forwarder developed very fast from c oastal cities to inside cities since 1992. Freight forwarder approved by foreign business department had reached to 3216 enterprises during ten years after July of 2002. Adding the internal trade approved by local government, the enterprises engaged in freight agency in the market had reached to ten thousand.Through the analysis about the two important markets (marine market and goods market) relating to freight forwarder, the actualities of freight forwarder were discovered from one side. Because the business main transportation pattern is by ship, we emphasize on marine market and goods market, and also, emphasizeon thecontainer transportation market and container shipper through analyzing shipping and goods. Because the writer lives in Dalian, the writer analyzed mainly on the freight forwarder market in the east-north areas.The papers analyze the four grades on China freight forwarder, and emphasize on the circumstance and exited problems , in order to know China freight forwarder correctly. The freight forwarder is becoming a new service industry accompanying to the opening reform. It belongs to the third industry. After entering into WTO, the freight forwarder industry is to face a competitive environment. Accordingly, the papers analyze and suppose the market environment and effects, and also try to look for the tendency and countermeasures of the freight forwarder.That why I choose this topic is depend on the observation about the perspective of the freight forwarder. Through the analysis of the theory and the practice about it, the freight theory and practice will be furthered, in order to work out a realizable significant conclusion, and also to be the reference for the people who engage in the freight forwarder industry. Just that, the papers have reached the study purpose.