First of all, be familiar with the shipping company and the major routes, ports and memorize their English or abbreviations。
Maersk MSK UAE ESL Modern HMM COSCO COSCO and other shipping company abbreviation, future order to know which shipping company。
Freight forwarding sales or freight forwarding operation。Know all the routes, especially your company's preferred routes。If it is to do freight forwarding sales, whether it is the customer inquiry or to give the customer quotation must be very skilled。
Each route has a corresponding port。Take Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routes as examples: Japan line, South Korea line, Taiwan line。The corresponding ports of the Japan Line are OSAKA, KOBE, Kobe NAGOYA, Nagoya, YOKOHAMA, KAWASAKI
Secondly, we should be familiar with all trade terms: such as EXWFOBCIFCFRDDUDAPDDP, etc., and clarify the division of responsibilities and costs between buyers and sellers。
Then get familiar with the whole process of shipping:
From the inquiry, to the customer sent a letter is the work of sales。After receiving the letter of lading, it is the work of operation. After receiving the bill of lading and letter of lading, the operator should start booking the shipping space (sending and receiving the same product name, shipping mark, container type, container quantity, shipping date, bulk free stacking and free use, etc.)。
After booking，There will be the following information: vessel/ flight (vessel/voage), port of departure POL, port of discharge POD, port of transit (via if any), estimated start date ETD, cut-off date (closingdate), containertype and container volume (containertype/size), empty container location (contract)or) etc.。
After getting the pre-allocation, the operation will make a container notification to the team, pay special attention to the cargo weight and transit port code in the container notification, and must not be wrong。
According to S/O to obtain a multi-link equipment delivery and seal, the team driver with the equipment delivery to the designated yard to pick up empty containers。Then pull the empty container to the factory or logistics warehouse for loading, seal the door with a seal strip after loading, and then give the container to the storage yard designated by the freight forwarder。
Customs clearance on the day of making containers。
The next day, check whether the port data is released, and then arrange the ship to ship out of the factory after the ship leaves the shipping company to issue the bill of lading
If it is a proxy order, also send a forecast。
Finally, the settlement, billing, filing。
In short, it is the inquiry book booking space pre-arranged trailer to do box customs clearance check into the port, release the ship, release the ship, release the ship bill of lading (forecast) settlement billing archive。