Cargo know-how

Why the weight on the invoice is often not the weight on the scale.

Which box your cargo fits, and what it costs you to pick the wrong one.

Whether to buy a whole container or a share of one — and the four ways that can be arranged.

Which document you are holding, who issued it, and what has to happen before the cargo is released.

Three charges that look alike on an invoice and come from three different places.

Who pays the carrier, where they pay it, and why the two words on the bill of lading matter.

Four abbreviations on every schedule, and the difference between a plan and a fact.

One moves your goods. The other takes responsibility for the whole shipment.

The short forms that fill a quotation, a booking confirmation and a bill of lading.

Fifteen named branches of the trade, and which of them a Malaysian forwarder actually runs.