How to Use forwarder in a Sentence

forwarder

noun

• Inbound, oceanborne shipments booked by freight forwarders rose 13% from the same month last year.
  — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• For freight forwarders, any shipment to the United States was good business.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• The results will show you whether the company is a carrier, broker or freight forwarder.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Expeditors is the second big freight forwarder to be hacked in recent months.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
• His company works with brokers and freight forwarders to take port delivery orders.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
• Most companies chose to specialise and hand co-ordination over to the forwarders.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Ultimately, his vision for Robinson is to be more than just a freight forwarder and shipping broker.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 July 2026
• The first time this thing was liberated from a park, it was tied to the roof of a car; for this trip, FA hired a freight forwarder at significant cost.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2021
• The cancellation of flights in and out of China has been so extensive that freight forwarders have had a very hard time finding any space at all on planes for their shipments.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Expeditors is the world’s sixth largest freight forwarder—a middleman that helps businesses book space on trucks, container ships, and cargo planes.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
• Within a week, the forwarder and I had communicated back and forth through Parcl’s messaging service.
  — Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2020
• But the public index is still based on averages provided by shippers and forwarders, so it can be presumed that many of the individual rates for cargo shipments were higher.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 June 2024
• The batons were imported through a freight forwarder in Illinois and had originated in Shenzhen, China.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• The port of New Orleans and its network of brokers, freight-forwarders and warehouses employ 4,000 people alone.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Many companies, including transportation operators and freight forwarders that manage the flow of goods, have been reluctant to share data on common platforms.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 28 May 2019
• Chinese authorities also arrested a freight forwarder with whom Guo is accused of conspiring to send the illicit parcels to Schmidt and others.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
• Ports and their customs offices are operating fairly smoothly, said several freight forwarders, who are essentially travel agents for cargo shipments.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Brokers and freight forwarders said shippers in the first 20 days of operation faced problems booking cargo slots and communicating with the carrier.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• Dave Clark spent 23 years building out Amazon’s delivery network and a brief stretch heading up digital freight forwarder Flexport.
  — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 13 July 2026
• And in November, Maersk bought Senator International, a freight forwarder that helps its clients book space on cargo planes.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 19 May 2022
• For international orders, the company sends items to a freighter forwarder who handles the logistics and customs declaration paperwork.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• If a lender in Maryland needs a car repossessed in Seattle and doesn’t know any agents there, a forwarder with a national repo database may manage the job, from assignment to resolution.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• The railroad companies, the trucking companies, the forwarder and broker community are spending a lot of time repositioning those empty boxes with very little return.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 22 Aug. 2021
• Amir Shani, the owner of Israeli air forwarder Amit and head of an air forwarders’ association, says this is due to a growth in reliance on passenger planes for the transfer of cargo.
  — Galit Altstein, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
• People involved in the matter say the Competition Commission is going through a list of monopoly concerns raised mostly by cargo owners and freight forwarders.
  — Joanne Chiu, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• These investments present a potential alternative for shippers and particularly their freight forwarders who are weary of the chronic volatility of the West Coast ports.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• In this sector, parcel consolidators and freight forwarders have high exposure to the new tariff enforcement surrounding the De Minimus Value rule.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• In this case, the smugglers are accused of providing false information to the freight forwarder, causing false manifests with Customs and Border Protection.
  — Christina Hall, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
• In this case, the smugglers are accused of providing false information to the freight forwarder, causing false manifests with Customs and Border Protection.
  — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• The shipment on its way to Mexico had been sent through five separate freight forwarders, the nameless middlemen of international shipping, who handle all the paperwork and logistics of export.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019