SCIAN 488519—Other freight transport brokerage services

Where 488519 sits

1. 48-49 Transport, mail and storage
2. 488 Transportation-related services
3. 4885 Freight transport brokerage services
4. 48851 Freight transport brokerage services
5. 488519 Other freight transport brokerage services

Description

Economic entities primarily engaged in providing intermediary services for air, land, or sea freight transport. These entities are known as freight forwarders, freight forwarders, freight consolidators, shipping agencies, or consignee agencies.

What 488519 includes

• These businesses provide logistics services, which consist of coordinating activities for the distribution of goods. These economic units carry out their activity by subcontracting services provided by other economic units—such as transportation, warehousing, packaging and labeling, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract these services to third parties; they do not perform the transportation, warehousing, etc., services themselves.

Example activities

• consignment agencies
• freight consolidation agencies
• freight forwarders
• cargo loading and unloading agencies
• shipping agencies
• freight forwarding agencies
• cargo consolidation
• coordination for freight transport, services of
• coordination for air cargo transport, services of
• coordination for rail freight transport, services of
• coordination for waterborne cargo transport, services of
• freight brokerage, services of
• intermediation for air cargo transport
• intermediation for maritime freight transport
• intermediation for land freight transport

Cross-references for 488519

• Establishments primarily engaged in the air freight transport (481, Air transport); rail freight transport (482, Rail transport); water freight transport (483, Water transport); road freight transport (484, Road freight transport); customs agency services (488511, Customs agency services); product storage (493, Storage services); logistics consulting (541610, Management consulting services); foreign trade consulting (541690, Other scientific and technical consulting services); packaging of goods owned by third parties in wrappers, individual boxes or kits, and labeling of these (561910, Packaging and labeling services).

488519 in other systems