The operation of freight forwarders is a bridge between foreign trade and shipping companies. Mainly responsible for booking shipping space, towing trucks, contacting shipping space, loading and issuing bills of lading. Proficient in operation, the annual salary is about 40 thousand, and the operation manager is 50 thousand-60 thousand.
Cooperate with documents, mainly responsible for customs declaration documents, booking documents, bill of lading visa, delivery documents at destination port. The specific work content varies slightly from company to company (many second-generation operations are also documents), and the salary is about 3,000 yuan per year.
There is also customer service and salesman in the freight forwarder, which is generally equipped in the first generation or international freight forwarder. The main job is to contact, communicate and treat the second generation or even the third generation, fourth generation and foreign trade units, which is generally equivalent to operation. The requirement is to be familiar with or even skilled in operating the post. The salary of the customer service manager is equal to that of the operation manager.
Salesman, this is the upper level of the freight forwarding pyramid. Salesman is the lifeline of all freight forwarders. Freight forwarders are engaged in the business brought by salesmen. The salesman's main job is to solicit import and export freight business from various channels and hand it over to the company for unified operation. His daily job is to accompany customers to drink tea, drink, eat, play, call for business and so on. Salary is mainly composed of basic salary and commission, and the commission ratio of different companies is different. If you have more business income, it will be extremely rich. Business managers are usually managers of companies or department managers, who have a large number of customers who can generate high profits. The annual salary of enterprise managers is generally more than 200 thousand, up to millions.
The similarity between foreign trade and freight forwarding is low-cost operation and low starting threshold. As long as the operation is done properly, a small investment can also make a lot of money. The difference is that freight forwarders belong to service enterprises, with meticulous division of labor and teamwork, with low input, low output and low risk in a single business; Foreign trade is an independent enterprise, focusing on personal charm and communication skills. Compared with freight forwarding, the investment in a single business is higher (of course, many investments here are borne by foreign investors), the output is higher and the risks are greater.
Personally, if your foreign language and spoken English are not a problem and you have confidence in the prospect of foreign trade, you can find a smaller foreign trade company and gradually accumulate experience and customers. When you have accumulated enough, you can try to start your own business and find someone to support you.
If you are not very confident about your foreign language, but you have rich contacts in the domestic logistics circle and many foreign trade friends, you can consider developing into a freight forwarder and run your own business with experience.
Do you believe that foreign trade supports Ningbo 1600 freight forwarders and creates nearly100000 jobs? Go by bus, but when it comes to entering Hong Kong, 95% of the containers are freight forwarders.
I hope it will help your life.