Freight logistics refers to breaking the traditional business thinking, organically combining the previously scattered sea transportation, land transportation, air transportation, logistics, and warehousing industries, and providing cargo owners with more comprehensive and systematic processing, packaging, loading and unloading, warehousing, transportation, distribution, customs declaration, inspection and other integrated services than freight or freight forwarding companies. The entire process of its information tracking penetrates into the production, processing and distribution links, covering all parts of logistics, business flow, capital flow, information flow, etc.

Compared with ordinary cargo transportation, freight logistics has the following new characteristics:

1. The rigidity of freight logistics services in terms of time. The transportation, warehousing, distribution, processing, sorting, and packaging of freight logistics are based on the production and sales plans of manufacturing enterprises. The lean organization of production requires the precision of logistics in terms of time. The biggest difference between freight logistics management and traditional transportation is whether the whole process is controlled and organized with precise time. Just-in-time is the first requirement of logistics services.

2. Flexibility in planning of freight logistics services. Freight logistics services should be highly planned, but such plans must fully consider various probabilities and uncertainties. The essential requirement is that they must obey the rhythm of production and sales. Once the rhythm changes, even the most reasonable plans must be adjusted and remedied tirelessly. Logistics plans are carefully designed and systematic logistics service plans.

3. The extensiveness of freight logistics services in terms of service scope. Logistics should pursue high quality in customer service. Quality has standards but no limits. In the service process, everything that the user is dissatisfied with must be improved, and everything that the user needs must be done. These improvements and additional work often form new service items or service products, bringing more business opportunities and higher returns to logistics companies.

4. Freight logistics service creativity in marketing. Logistics needs to strengthen marketing to win users, but this kind of marketing is not a simple quotation and signing, but to design a set of optimized and most economical product logistics solutions for users. Therefore, the success or failure of marketing often depends on whether there is a team of talents who understand transportation and are proficient in production, sales and financial management, and depends on their creative adaptability and design capabilities.

5. Freight logistics services rely on long-term partnerships. Freight logistics prefers to choose long-term partners, which reflects the strength of a logistics company and its ability to avoid risks. At the same time, this strength is also reflected in whether the cooperative partnership with various modes of transportation is consolidated and whether the technical support is strong. Therefore, having multimodal transport capabilities is a necessary condition for logistics companies.

Simply put, freight logistics is developed on the basis of freight transportation. In addition to transporting goods to the designated location, freight logistics also includes transportation costs and time, market conditions of the destination, etc. It is a comprehensive and integrated logistics transportation model.

As a well-known freight forwarder in the industry, Forest Leopard International Logistics provides you with professional, reliable and leading cross-border logistics services. We are committed to providing you with efficient logistics solutions. You are welcome to contact us for more details.