As early as the tenth century AD, the freight forwarding industry has been established. At the beginning, it was a customs broker. Most of its practitioners came from international trade enterprises with high quality. They can handle quite a part of international trade business and transport affairs for shippers. With the development of trade, a specialized industry has gradually emerged. In the course of its development, some countries have tried to cancel it and let shippers and carriers directly. Business relations and the reduction of intermediate links have not succeeded, because the four main bodies of cargo owners, freight forwarders, shipowners (or other transport capacity) and shipping agents, which constitute the international freight market, cannot be mixed with the objects of port terminals, yards, stations and warehouses, and the concurrent and cross-operation will lead to chaos in the competition order of the international freight market.

These tasks have a wide range of links and many links. They are relatively centralized in handling the rather complicated work of international trade and freight transport business, coordinating, coordinating and rationalizing relations, enhancing its professionalism, technicality and policy. The formation of the international freight forwarding industry is an inevitable product of the international commodity circulation process and an indispensable part of international trade. Because of this, the industry has been subjected to The world is generally recognized as the freight forwarder of international trade enterprises. Its English name is FORWARDERS, and it has established an international organization, namely "Fiat Tower", which is abbreviated as "FIATA".

Its member countries have developed to more than 130 countries and regions, with more than 3500 international freight forwarding companies and more than 8 million employees. International freight forwarding associations have been established successively in Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Dalian, Jiangsu, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is preparing to establish China International Freight forwarding associations, which will lead local associations and join the international community. Sex organizations become member states.