Behind almost every imported product is a freight forwarder — the company that arranges the international move from the factory to the port. Here's how it fits the rest of the chain.
What a freight forwarder does
- Books ocean or air freight and manages the routing
- Handles documentation and customs coordination
- Ties the international leg to inland transport
Where it hands off
Once the container lands at the Port of Seattle or Tacoma, drayage takes over — a trucker pulls the box to a nearby warehouse, where it's stored and shipped out. The forwarder's job is everything that comes before that: getting the goods from an overseas factory onto a vessel and into the port.
That international leg is exactly what our freight-forwarding partner Platton handles — booking the ocean or air freight, managing the customs and documentation, and getting goods from overseas to the Northwest ports so the rest of the chain can run.
And the trucks that carry it all? We keep them rolling. Talk to Long Road Repair — (425) 900-6212.
We practice what we write. At Long Road Repair we import all of our own shop machinery and equipment through Platton — their customs services and both ocean and air freight transportation. When we call Platton our freight-forwarding partner, it's because we ship with them ourselves.
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