An entity that provides service also provided by an air carrier, independent from that carrier, and derives income from package consolidation of others for tender to an air carrier. An Air Freight Forwarder also performs these functions.

An enterprise that provides services to group shipments, orders, and/or goods to facilitate movement.

a travel agent who provides a consolidated or concentrated volume of passengers to an air carrier

An entity that provides consolidation services, joining multiple shipments into a single shipment fro tender to an air carrier. An Air Freight Forwarder performs the function of a consolidator.

An agent that merges different shipments of goods from many vendors into a single delivery going to one destination to reduce shipping rates.

A company which stores and/or ships merchandise in trailers or containers for beneficial owners, similar to a freight forwarder, but they are organized on a cooperative, nonprofit basis to obtain carload rates and advantages of larger-scale traffic flow for their members.

An agent who brings together a number of shipments for one destination to qualify for preferential rates.