Shipping goods to international markets involves several tasks. Business houses may have their in-house arrangements to ship goods abroad or they may rely on freight forwarders to do this for them.
It depends on whether businesses want to focus on their main business activities or whether they would also prefer to handle non-core activities such as packing, freight forwarding, etc.
With the growth of the global economy, the shipment of goods both domestic, as well as international, has increased...
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