Freight forwarders in Spain

It seems that you looking for Maritime Freight forwarder which operates in Spain?

Here you will find all about maritime freight forwarders (or almost all) which operate in Spain. While you'll read this blog i'm going to give you some tips to bear in mind while choosing a maritime freight forwarders company that more approaches to your needs.

First of all a bit of geography.Spain position between Europe, America and Africa becomes it to one of the main logistics platform of southern Europe.Spain location is very close to the axis of the main maritime route, circumequatorial corridor linking North America, Europe and Asia Pacific through the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Panama Canal. America communicates with ports and Mediterranean countries through routes like the Strait of Gibraltar to Asia by the Suez Canal. Thanks that you can choose between a lot of worldwide Freight Forwarder companies that operates in Spain.Which port the goods be shipped? I suppose that you already have choosed a port, if not here Spain's top five busiest and most important ports: Valencia, Bahía de Algeciras, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Bilbao

So let's start. As you know there's a lot of freight forwarders operating around the world.

How do they work? A short explication before continue with the tips, above all, freight forwarder books the reservation with the ship agent, cargo is trucked to the shipping line at the port origin and shipped overseas to the importer at the port of destination. The itinerary can be port- to- port or can include truck pick up and or delivery, door-to-port, port-to- door and door-to-door.What kind of container load is it? Take into account that not all of maritime forwarders offer FCL and LCL container loads, the worldwide companies does. It's depend of their preferential agreements with major shipping lines.

In addition about shipping lines, the container industry has revolutionized the shipping industry in it sent a five big companies like, Italian MSC, the Danish Maersk,, the French CMA-CGM, Taiwanese Evergreen, and Chinese Cosco. They own more than a quarter of ships and 43.2% in tonnage. The origin of market consolidation of the containers was the race to gain market share to the expansion of manufacturing in Asia, first in Japan and then, especially in China. The explosion of Asian industries generated huge amounts of products and a race to transport. Rising oil prices also boosted the construction of more energy efficient vessels.

Other not less important worldwide operating shipping lines: Boluda Lines, Hanjin, Safmarine, MacAndrews, Grimaldi Lines, Hyundai, Seago Line, Mol, Turkon Line. 

The last tip, is the maritime freight forward offer customs broker services? At else it's better if the forward company has it own customs brokers that way they can fix problems faster. 

After all let's see the maritime freight forwarders which operate in Spain that i considered like most important.

iContainers

In this forwarder they offer 3 main shipping services , shipping, air transport and removals internacionales.They have over 7 years of experience and export and import goods all over the world, giving us the option to pick the point of arrival of the goods.

Tiba Group

With extensive experience in international maritime transport of goods it allows to provide quality services for their imports and exports and process through their customs agent necessary documentation both export and maritime import.They operate in principal ports in the world, in Spain they have a seat at all ports , offering logistics services for the entire industry.

Euro Plus Cargo

They have over 20 years of experience.The services they offer as customs officers , air and sea transport , international removals, specialized packaging, transportation of works of art and fairs.They also have warehouses in the entry and exit points of the merchandise for temporarily storing fully monitored.

Stock logistic

Stock Logistic is a dynamic company with a team of young and experienced professionals. They are motivated in the development of the activity as an integral logistic operator, managing and advising import and export traffics of all kinds of goods, from any point to any destination in the world, choosing the most adequate solution at all times. It has obtained the certificate of AEO – Authorized economic operator.Stock Logistic is a member of the Grupo Alonso, one of the main logistic and naval operators, backed by 100% Spanish capital.

Moldtrans

It has a wide network of correspondents and agents in major cities and ports services in world.They offer sea, air and land transport, also manage processes and logistical needs of companies and have a lot of reliability and security in the management of shipments goods through customs .

Ibertransit

Ibertransit Group , through its companies and Iberlogistika Ibertransit Worldwide Logistics , offers an experienced team , a high degree of involvement in the development of its business plan.They optimize their logistics with a wide range of solutions for storage , handling and distribution of goods nationally and internationally.

In conclusion,if we have to send or receive goods around the world ,we just have to put some information about the shipment ,and they will calculate the freight and fix documentation so it's very easy to do.

Thanks for your attention i hope that this article helps you to choose the right company!



Authors:
Javier Gomar Boluda
Lyudmyla Tishchenko

Sources:
Moldtrans datos
Ministerio de fomento
Puerto con mayor flujo españa
ranking empresas marítimas
icontainers
Principales navieras
Principales navieras
informacion
top ports
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