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The involvement of a freight forwarder is generally considered essential in the management of international freight. This transport organizer coordinates the entire logistics chain, ensuring the shipment of goods from their point of origin to their final destination. Beyond operational management, their expertise helps rationalize financial flows and prevent risks related to unexpected costs or customs issues.

International trade in goods presents a structural complexity that frequently justifies the use of a freight forwarder. As an industry expert, they optimize shipping processes to ensure operational fluidity. Their expertise enables cost reduction, rigorous management of documentary compliance, and adherence to regulatory deadlines, thereby limiting the occurrence of administrative or technical errors.

Freight forwarders offer an extensive range of logistics services, including warehousing, export packaging, document preparation, insurance subscriptions, and dispute management. Their functions also cover freight consolidation, cargo space reservations, and real-time shipment tracking. Specialized operators such as Derudder integrate all of these services, covering multimodal transport (air, sea, and road), import-export operations, and third-party logistics solutions such as e-commerce fulfillment.

Shipment traceability is ensured by digital tools providing permanent access to transit data, known as Transport Management Platforms (TMP). Solutions such as MyRudder® offer a real-time consultation interface for tracking events (terminal departures, embarkations, arrivals, disembarkations, actual deliveries), access to dematerialized documentation, and automated activity report generation. These platforms are API-connected with many other platforms, enabling centralization of a large amount of different information. They can also allow shippers to provide partial visibility of their shipments to their own customers.

A freight forwarder acts as a transport architect on behalf of companies engaged in international trade, facilitating the movement of goods packaged as parcels, crates or containers. Mandated by importers or exporters, its role is to ensure that goods reach their final destination while meeting requirements for timing and physical integrity. Its main missions include chartering with various carriers (maritime, air, rail or road) as well as coordinating ancillary services: technical logistics (export packing and storage), administrative management (issuing and checking transport documents), and risk and cost management (arranging insurance policies and optimising customs taxation).

We support your imports, exports or customs-clearance-only operations across all major French ports and airports: Le Havre, Fos, Dunkirk, Rouen, Gennevilliers, Saint-Nazaire, Sète, Roissy CDG, Orly, Saint Exupéry, Lille Lesquin, Nantes, Marignane, Toulon, Ajaccio and Bastia, as well as key border crossings such as Strasbourg, Calais and Geneva.

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