Freight shipments involve a lot of work and most of the work in a freight shipment involves documents.
There are several key freight documents involved in a shipment and some of the most important ones are:
- Commercial invoice
- Packing list
- Certificate of origin
- Freight invoice
- Booking note
- Forwarders cargo receipt
- Bill of lading
- Manifest
- Hazardous declaration
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