Chinese Freight Forwarding Industry In Service Innovation

International Freight Forwarding has long been existed all over the world, and forwarders are indispensable to international trade. Both sides in the market are highly dependent on forwarders. Since forwarders are familiar with the processes and procedures in international trade, both sides often employ the forwarders to tackle with those things, while focusing on their core business. Thus with the development of the international trade, the International Freight industry is getting increasingly more glorious and has greatly improve China's economy.However, the industry is now facing great challenges caused by the development of the international trade, the improvement of the information infrastructure of trade, the interaction with WTO, and the impact of international economic crisis. Not only the basis of international freight forwarding industry has been destroyed, not only the operation model cannot be used any longer, but also the whole market circumstances has been changed. The industry has to make some improvements to survive and thrive in the new era.This thesis tries to search out the innovation points of the industry and the development trends. Both quality control theories and information technology can be connected to freight forwarding, and I try to find out the financial solution to improve the performance of the whole industry.At the beginning, this thesis demonstrates the status quo of the industry and the problems encountered in the new period. Then the relationship between international freight forwarding and the third party logistics is deeply discussed. Then the three merging trends are stated definition and situation of the logistics finance are provided, and the financial solution is clearly and carefully described at last. And the case of Eternal Asia and Rockport are introduced at the end.