International freight forwarders Part of the AsiaCalculator.com landed cost calculation service is made of a freight rates section, where buyers can access rates from carefully selected international freight forwarders providing shipping services from China, Asia. How AsiaCalculator recruits only the best freight forwarders 1. First of all, there is no free registration on AsiaCalculator for forwarders (unless they are invited, see below). This ensures that only legitimate, established shipping agents connect to the platform to provide freight rates - and also that only relevant freight companies, having services for freight from China, India, or more generally Asia sign up for an account. 2. AsiaCalculator has implemented quotas to ensure that only a limited number of freight forwarders in each country are allowed to register spontaneously on the platform. This is to avoid a multiplication of small, un-qualified forwarders or shipping companies, which would bring no value to buyers. 3. Then, every new freight forwarder registered is required to fill in a qualification survey, assessing them on qualitative criteria (such as number of staff, accreditations, etc). This allows AsiaCalculator to rate the freight forwarders in database, on a 50 pts scale. Each freight company's notation is then disclosed to buyers next to their freight rates. 4. Finally, AsiaCalculator ensures that information provided by freight forwarders is accurate; routine emails are sent to make sure freight companies keep their details and rates up to date, and AsiaCalculator regularly deactivates forwarders' accounts when they show too little activity. The best freight forwarders are recommended by buyers Many buyers on AsiaCalculator invite their usual freight forwarder(s) to connect online, to share freight tariffs from China, Asia and use them for their landed cost budget calculation - in that case, the invited forwarder can create his account for free. All freight companies are then evaluated based on the number of buyers they are connected with ("popularity"). Besides, buyers can rate easily, on a 5-stars scale, any freight forwarder they are connected with. These 2 criteria (popularity and buyers' ratings), are the most powerful and significant of the reliability and quality of a freight forwarder. Watch a demo of AsiaCalculator freight forwarders selection tool:

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