Since the reform and opening up, China's foreign economic trade and national economy have achieved remarkable achievements. In 2002, China's import and export trade volume ranked fifth in the world, attracting foreign investment for the first time in a decade. The continuous development of China's foreign trade and national economy has laid the foundation for the development of the international freight forwarding industry. The international freight forwarding industry is also growing and developing in the process of serving foreign trade and national economic development, service level and international competition. The ability has been significantly improved, and a variety of operational competition systems have been formed, which are gradually becoming in line with international standards. As an important part of our foreign trade and economic work, the international freight forwarding industry has gradually grown from small to large in the process of reform and opening up. From the exclusive enterprises before the reform and opening up to the current more than 3,800, both in terms of quantity and quality. Great development.

Under the macroeconomic background of economic globalization, the markets of countries and regions around the world are more closely linked by modern communication and information technology, logistics services and financial markets. International trade, cross-border investment and various economic and technological cooperation are also becoming increasingly close. As an important part of service trade, international freight forwarding industry plays an important and irreplaceable role in regional economic and trade cooperation. The development of the international freight forwarding industry has extremely important economic and political significance for the development of China's foreign trade and national economy.

With China's accession to the World Trade Organization, the service industry will be further opened to the outside world, which will bring more fierce market competition to China's international freight forwarding industry, and also bring unprecedented business opportunities and broad development space. According to the relevant commitments made by the Chinese government when it joined the World Trade Organization, China’s international freight forwarding industry will gradually open up in the next few years. The introduction of foreign capital and the intensification of competition have brought us new challenges. The international freight forwarding business covers many aspects of international trade, international transportation, modern information technology, international business, law, etc., and the requirements for the basic quality, knowledge level and experience accumulation of employees are getting higher and higher.

According to the industry characteristics of international freight forwarders, combined with the current situation of China's industry development, and drawing on the successful experiences of some countries in the world, the national industry authorities decided to carry out standardized industry training work nationwide and entrusted China International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFA). , China International Forwards Association) is responsible for organizing the implementation of industry training and qualification examinations, aiming to improve the professional quality of employees, accelerate the construction of human resources, fundamentally improve the quality and level of service, and promote the health of China's freight forwarding industry. development of. In view of the fact that most of China's freight forwarding companies are operating at a small scale, many enterprises are still in the initial stage of development, with limited competition, lack of professional talents, and inadequate service standards. Since the establishment of the association in 2000, the company has cultivated high-quality international As an important work of the association, freight forwarding personnel carried out the national international freight forwarding industry practitioner training and the first examination in September 2002, and obtained a high evaluation from the society.

On the basis of summing up experience, China International Freight Forwarders Association consists of the University of International Business and Economics, Dalian Maritime University, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai Lansheng Foreign Trade and Economics College, China Civil Aviation College, China Civil Aviation Management Cadre College, Qingdao Ocean Shipping The examination committee designated by the experts and scholars of the crew college and other institutions. At the same time, we listened carefully to the opinions of government administration departments and some international freight forwarding companies such as business, transportation, customs, commodity inspection, industry and commerce, finance, etc., and engaged in freight forwarding around the world by FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations). The professional training requirements of the agent, the content, structure, and length of the training materials were carefully studied and demonstrated, and the "National International Freight Forwarding Industry Qualification Training Examination Guide Book" was compiled and compiled. Uniform designation of training for international freight forwarding practitioners and qualification examinations.

Compared with other freight forwarding training materials, this set of teaching materials has the following outstanding features:

1. Highly authoritative. China International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFA), as a national member representing China's Federation of International Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA), is authorized by FIATA as the only organization responsible for organizing vocational training in the international freight forwarding industry in Mainland China. CIFA is based on FIATA's training requirements for global employees and is based on the actual situation in China. It aims to help enterprises cultivate a group of outstanding international talents as soon as possible, improve their competitiveness, and guide China's freight forwarding companies to the world.

2. Learn from others. The preparation of this set of teaching materials breaks the boundaries between the region and the system, and concentrates on the suggestions and opinions of experts and professors in various aspects such as government administration departments, national universities and freight forwarding companies related to freight forwarding business, including associations and government administrative departments. The crystallization of collective wisdom, including experts and scholars.

3. Adapt to development. On the basis of focusing on the theory and practice of freight forwarding, this set of textbooks introduces the maritime and aviation international cargo transportation business closely related to the freight forwarding industry, and conforms to the single carrier of the traditional freight forwarding enterprise from the agency-related transportation business. The international development trend of transition to integrated service providers will help promote the integration of China's freight forwarding companies with the international market and guide enterprises to seek new living and development space in the fierce market competition.

4. The content is informative. This set of textbooks covers all aspects of international freight forwarding business such as maritime transport, air transport, land transport, multimodal transport, logistics, information and inventory management. It not only explains the traditional freight forwarding business, but also has international development opportunities and modern international intermodal transport. Logistics, freight forwarding insurance, etc. have made a systematic introduction. The content is informative and covers all aspects of knowledge necessary for the development of international freight forwarding business.

5. Practical. This set of textbooks not only has a high degree of theoreticality, but also has strong practicability and operability; it is not only suitable for the training of international freight forwarding business personnel, but also an important reference book and reference book for middle and senior management personnel.

The preparation of this set of textbooks was carefully prepared by the China International Freight Forwarders Association and carefully deployed, with the strong support and cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce and other government administrations. Assistant Minister of Commerce Guo Li, Personnel Education and Labor Department and relevant directors and directors of the Foreign Trade Department participated in the examination and approval of the textbooks.

As a designated book for international freight forwarding industry job training and qualification examinations, this set of textbooks can also serve as a reference book for relevant institutions and other personnel to study and understand the development of China's international freight forwarding industry.

This book is published by China Foreign Economic and Trade Publishing House.