Whois & Analysis for icontainers.com

A freight forwarder, forwarder, or forwarding agent, also known as a non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC), is a person or company that organizes shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods from the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of distribution.

Forwarders contract with a carrier or often multiple carriers to move the goods.

A forwarder does not move the goods but acts as an expert in the logistics network.

These carriers can use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads, and often multiple modes for a single shipment.

For example, the freight forwarder may arrange to have cargo moved from a plant to an airport by truck, flown to the destination city, then moved from the airport to a customer's building by another truck.

Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers) made of weathering steel.

The containers have standardized dimensions.

They can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another—container ships, rail transport flatcars, and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened.

The handling system is completely mechanized so that all handling is done with cranes and special forklift trucks.

All containers are numbered and tracked using computerized systems.

The Framework Class Library (FCL) is a standard library and Microsoft's .NET Framework implementation of the Standard Libraries as defined in the Common Language Infrastructure.

The FCL is a collection of reusable classes, interfaces and value types.

The Base Class Library (BCL) is the core of the FCL and provides the most fundamental functionality, which includes classes in namespaces, and.

Ship transport is watercraft carrying people (passengers) or goods (cargo).

Freight transport has been achieved widely by sea throughout recorded history.

Although the importance of sea travel for passengers has decreased due to aviation, it is effective for short trips and pleasure cruises.

Transport by water is cheaper than transport by air, despite fluctuating exchange rates and CAF charges to account for such.

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea, but is extended in American English to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.

"Logistics", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also fashionably used in the same sense.