Dry goods │ Freight forwarding miscellaneous charges decryption, don't coax cheap

In addition to the "pure" freight, there are various miscellaneous charges, some of which are charged by the shipowner, some are charged by the port of shipment/port of destination, and some are charged by the forwarder himself. In addition, many fees do not have a clear standard, very flexible. In addition to charges to the shipper, some charges will also be charged to the consignee (that is, our foreign customers). This is easy to produce two traps: one is that some freight forwarders use more charges under the guise of pretext, and the other is that freight forwarders adjust and transfer part of the cost between the consignee and the shipper.

In general, the shipper to find the freight forwarder, the shipper is the customer, the freight forwarder will try to keep the cost low to please the shipper, so less charge, and to the destination port to collect more money from the customer (consignee), robbing Peter to pay Paul, and vice versa. This is why the same batch of goods, if we do CNF, we find our own freight forwarder, the cost is relatively low; If FOB is designated by the customer, the RMB miscellaneous charges are much higher.

Knowing these inside information, we understand that we can't covet temporary cheap, thinking that the lower the price, the better. And we must determine the composition of the price in advance to avoid some bad freight forwarders to charge arbitrarily or transfer to customers after shipment, affecting our feelings and cooperation with customers.

First of all, we must have a certain understanding of the composition of freight and miscellaneous charges, and learn to distinguish "trade rules" charging items and arbitrary charges.

Common incidentals include:

1. ORC: OriginReceivingCharge Terminal surcharge at the port of origin;

2, DDC: DestinationDeliveryCharge destination delivery fee;

3. THC: TerminalHandlingCharge terminal operation (hanging cabinet) fee;

4. BAF: BunkerAdjustedFactor Fuel surcharge, or FAF (FuelAdjustedFactor);

5, CAF: CurrencyAdjustmentFactor devaluation surcharge;

6. DOC: Document fee;

7. PSS: PeakSeasonSurcharge;

8. AMS: AmericaManifestSystem (American manifest System)

Since 2003, the United States has required that all goods shipped to the United States must report the cargo information to the United States Customs through the AMS system. The same forwarder must truthfully report the cargo information to the shipping company. Forwarders therefore charge owners an AMS surcharge, usually around $25 / order.

These fee collection items will be adjusted according to the time and route, but the whole industry is basically fixed, that is, to collect everyone will collect, if others do not collect on a freight forwarder list, then there is a problem.

Under FOB conditions, pay special attention to the inflated cost items. Of course, FOB is the customer designated freight forwarder, the freight forwarder "please" the object is foreign customers, we bear the domestic miscellaneous fees must be higher than CNF, this is the "hidden rule", there is no way. But not too high. Local markets are slightly different, according to the local situation, more than a few freight forwarding comparison, in order to understand the local "trade rules".