Forwarding agent

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....d shipments 'small shipments' into carload shipments, thus taking advantage of lower freight rates." The Penguin Business Dictionary defines this expression in the following words: "Forwarding agent. A GENERAL AGENT who specializes in moving goods from a factory or port of entry to their proper destination. Such an agent normally owns the transport necessary for this work and often arra....

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....hey are necessary, for the intermediate steps between the ship and the rail, the customs or anything else. Although there is a clear distinction between a forwarding agent and a carrier, the same person may carry on both activities at once, and contract sometimes as one and sometimes as the other. Rights and liabilities of forwarding agents. The rights and liabilities of a forwarding agent are....

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.... a forwarding agent is not liable for failing to insure the goods, in the absence of instructions from his customer to do so: but he may, in certain circumstances, be liable for not consulting his customer and advising him as to the proper transport and insurance arrangements which should be made for valuable goods. A forwarding agent is not normally personally liable to pay the charges of carri....