Along with the international trade and the international shipping unceasing development, the international freight transportation agent industry gradually separates from them, and becomes an independent industry. It plays a vital role in the national economy and cannot be substituted. It links cargo owners and carriers, and is the organizer and the designer to the international transportation.
The international freight transportation agent industry is an emerging line in our country. After elaborating international freight transportation’s background, the connotation and tendency, the article draw out our country freight transportation agent industry present situation and questions. According to our international freight transportation agent’s develop process and characteristics, we could find the questions in the government section , the region distributes, service quality, the enterprise history and so on. By analyzing the development prospects and summarizing the experience of the foreign outstanding freight transportation proxy enterprises, we have obtained some effective suggestions to resolve our questions from three aspects, i.e. the country, the industry, and the enterprises.
【Key Words】International freight transportation agent industry ; Question and countermeasure