SCIAN 48851—Freight transport brokerage services

Where 48851 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

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 488511 Customs agency services
• 488519 Other freight transport brokerage services

Description

Economic entities primarily engaged in providing customs clearance services for the import and export of goods, and freight forwarding services for air, land, or sea transport. These entities are known as freight forwarders, cargo forwarders, freight consolidators, shipping agencies, or consignee agencies.

What 48851 includes

• These economic units 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, storage, packaging and labeling services, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract to third parties; they do not carry out the transportation, storage, etc. services themselves. There are also economic units dedicated to logistics services, which, among all their services, consider customs services to be the most important.

Cross-references for 48851

• Establishments primarily engaged in the trade of goods (43, Wholesale trade; 46, Retail trade); to air freight transport (481, Air transport); to rail freight transport (482, Rail transport); to water freight transport (483, Water transport); to road freight transport (484, Road freight transport); to providing product storage services (493, Storage services); to advice and support for carrying out legal procedures (54119, Support services for carrying out legal procedures); to logistics consulting (54161, Management consulting services); to foreign trade consulting (54169, Other scientific and technical consulting services); to packaging goods owned by third parties in wrappers, individual boxes or kits, and to labeling these (56191, Packaging and labeling services).

48851 in other systems