우리나라 프레이트 포워더(Freight Forwarder)의 향후 발전방향에 관한 연구

A Study on the Current Evaluation and Future Direction of Freight Forwarder in South Korea

This paper analyzes the current situation and tries to find out the problems of freight forwarder in South Korea. And finally, it suggests some future directions for them. To achieve those purposes, this article reviews the functions and duties of freight forwarder and discusses laws and regulations of freight forwarder in Unites States and Korea. Comparative analysis has also been done to ascertain freight forwarder and its business. One of the significant feature of freight forwarder in United States is that freight forwarder is governed by government directly and is required to be bonded, licensed, and regulated by Federal Maritime Commission pursuant to Shipping Act of 1984. But in South Korea, any enterprise could be freight forwarder by declaration or reporting to government agency. Nowadays permission is required to do forwarding business in South Korea. Until now in South Korea, many freight forwarders have been appeared and suffered intensive competition and so many government agencies are involved in regulating freight forwarder and its business. In conclusion, this paper presents some future directions in order to secure global competitiveness for Korean forwarding business. The first, Korean forwarding companies have to go abroad like Deutsche Post DHL and UPS. Also, M&A and strategic alliance are still required to do forwarding business in South Korea. The second, Korean forwarding companies have to do business as multimodal transport operator as well as consolidator.