Since our country implemented the opendoor policy, the Vietnamese economy has really made positive and optimistic changes, gradually integrating and integrating into the regional and world economy. In that context, importexport business activities have clearly shown an important role, being the driving force in promoting the countrys economy to develop in accordance with the process of industrialization and modernization of the country that the Party and State have not been able to achieve. outlined. Currently, the process of globalization and international economic integration is taking place strongly in the world. Vietnam officially integrated deeply with the region and the world after the 1990s with the signing of a series of FTAsFree Trade Agreements and became an official member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 1112007. So far, Vietnam has had diplomatic relations with more than 170 countries, exported goods to about 230 markets, signed over 150 free trade agreements, many bilateral trade agreements and about 12 multilateral agreements and is still negotiating a range of other trade agreements. Vietnam has an advantage in trade with the world because most of its territory is adjacent to the East Sea, a coastline stretching 3,260 km and many large and small seaports have been built. The quantity and value of goods delivered and delivered through seaports accounts for the majority of the total value of Vietnams international freight forwarding. Importing is to serve the development of the country, the problem is how to be both effective and costeffective. An important factor contributing to import efficiency is foreign trade work and organization. To fully implement a foreign trade contract, it is indispensable to organize the transportation of goods from one country to another. Import and delivery work plays this important role, so I choose the topic Freight Forwarding of imported goods by sea at Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd as my graduation thesis. My thesis is built on the general process of the business and learned during the internship at the company, doing specific work. The thesis has clearly stated a process for freight forwarding imported goods by sea, specific operations of each step in the process. From that, the advantages and disadvantages of the process can be drawn, based on that, to make suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the process for Golden Star Logistics and Investment Trading Co., Ltd.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE ACADEMY OF FINANCE GRADUATION THESIS TOPIC: FREIGHT FORWARDING OF IMPORTED GOODS BY SEA AT GOLDEN STAR LOGISTICS AND TRADING INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED Major Code : Customs and Logistics 06 Instructor : Assoc Prof PhD Vu Duy Nguyen PhD Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa Hanoi - 2022 MINISTRY OF FINANCE ACADEMY OF FINANCE GRADUATION THESIS TOPIC: FREIGHT FORWARDING OF IMPORTED GOODS BY SEA AT GOLDEN STAR LOGISTICS AND TRADING INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED Major Code : Customs and Logistics 06 Instructor : Assoc Prof PhD Vu Duy Nguyen PhD Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa Hanoi - 2022 Graduation Thesis Academy Of Finance DECLARATION I hereby declare that this thesis is a report of my own research and effort and all the data, information provided in this thesis are true and based on reality Graduation Thesis Author i Graduation Thesis Academy Of Finance ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First, I truly appreciate the internship opportunity at Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co,.LTD They gave me a chance to corporate at work and to gain more not only knowledge but also experience Besides, I would like to express my profound gratitude to my mentor, Assoc Prof PhD Vu Duy Nguyen and PhD Nguyen Thị Minh Hoa who have helped and encouraged me to develop the understanding of the subject I really appreciate his patience in reading and correcting my thesis Finally, I wish to show my sincere thanks to all my teachers at Academy of Finance, who have provided me with worthy lessons throughout years of study ii TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION .i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii TABLE OF CONTENTS .iii ABBREVIATIONS vi TABLE OF FIGURES, TABLE vii PREAMBLE CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BASIS OF FREIGHT FORWARDING OF IMPORTED GOODS BY SEA 1.1 Overview of imported goods .5 1.1.1 Concepts 1.1.2 Characteristics of imported goods 1.1.3 Roles of imported goods 1.1.4 Classification of imported goods 1.2 Overview of international freight forwarding 10 1.2.1 Concept of international freight forwarding 10 1.2.2 Contents of freight freight forwarding of imported goods by sea 13 1.2.3 Concept and role of forwarder: 14 1.2.4 Relationship of forwarders and related parties in freight forwarding imported goods by sea: 17 1.2.5 Duties of agencies involved in the process of freight forwarding imported goods by sea 18 1.3 Process of freight forwarding of imported goods by sea 21 1.3.1 Process of freight forwarding imported goods by sea 21 1.3.2 Documents in freight forwarding imported goods by sea 24 1.4 Factors affecting the process of freight forwarding imported goods by sea 27 1.4.1 Internal factors 27 1.4.2 External factors 29 SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 30 CHAPTER 2: SITUATION OF FREIGHT FORWARDING OF IMPORTED GOODS BY SEA AT GOLDEN STAR LOGISTICS AND INVESTMENT TRADING CO., LTD 31 2.1 Overview of Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd 31 2.1.1 Basic information about the company 31 2.1.2 The organizational structure of the management apparatus 33 2.1.3 Field of business activities 34 2.1.4 Overview of the company's business results in the period of 2018 - 2020 35 2.2 Analysis of freight forwarding of imported goods by sea at Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd .39 2.2.1 Legal basis in freight forwarding of imported goods by sea 39 2.2.2 The process of freight forwarding of imported goods by sea at Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd 39 2.2.3 Analyze and evaluate the results of freight freight forwarding of imported goods by sea of Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd from 2018 - 2020 43 2.3 Assessment of the current status of the process of freight freight forwarding of imported goods by sea at Golden Star Logistics and Investment Trading Co., Ltd 45 2.3.1 Strengths .45 2.3.3 Opportunities .50 2.3.4 Threats .50 SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 51 CHAPTER 3: ORIENTATION AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE FREIGHT FORWARDING OF IMPORTED GOODS BY SEA AT GOLDEN STAR LOGISTICS AND TRADING 52 INVESTMENT CO., LTD 52 3.1 Development trends of the freight forwarding market 52 3.2 Objectives and development direction of Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co., Ltd 54 3.2.1 Objectives .54 3.2.2 Development goals of the company .55 3.3 Some solutions to enhance the process of freight forwarding imported goods by sea at Golden Star Logistics and Investment Trading Co., Ltd 56 3.3.1 Optimizing the quality of existing transport services and providing new types 56 3.3.2 Overcoming delays in receiving documents 57 3.3.3 Solutions to improve the quality of human resources 58 3.3.4 Solutions to attract customers 59 3.3.5 Solutions to improve the relationship with shipping lines and Customs authorities .60 3.3.6 Solutions to improve Marketing activities 61 3.3.7 Solutions to promote warehousing business 62 3.4 Recommendations to state management agencies 64 3.4.1 For the State 64 3.4.2 For Customs 65 3.4.3 For Vietnam Forwarding Association 66 SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 68 CONCLUSIONS 69 REFERENCES 71 ABBREVIATIONS GSC Golden Star Logistics and Trading Investment Co.,LTD CO., LTD Company Limited PO Purchase Order B/L Bill of Lading HS Harmonized System INV Invoice CFS Container Freight Staion LCL Less Container Load FCL Full Container Load FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarder Association D/O Delivery order ROROC Report on receipt of cargo TABLE OF FIGURES, TABLE Figure 1.1: Relationship of forwarders and related parties in freight forwarding imported goods by sea .17 Figure 1.2: The process of freight freight forwarding imported goods by sea .21 Figure 2.1: Organization chart of the GSC management apparatus 33 Figure 2.2: Types of company services 35 Figure 2.3: Revenue from transportation service business 37 Figure 2.4: The process of importing goods by sea of GSC 40 Table 2.1: Business results report of GSC .36 Table 2.2: Revenue from transportation of imported goods by sea of GSC .43 Graduation Thesis Academy Of Finance PREAMBLE The necessity of the research: Since our country implemented the open-door policy, the Vietnamese economy has really made positive and optimistic changes, gradually integrating and integrating into the regional and world economy In that context, import-export business activities have clearly shown an important role, being the driving force in promoting the country's economy to develop in accordance with the process of industrialization and modernization of the country that the Party and State have not been able to achieve outlined Currently, the process of globalization and international economic integration is taking place strongly in the world Vietnam officially integrated deeply with the region and the world after the 1990s with the signing of a series of FTAs-Free Trade Agreements and became an official member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11/1/2007 So far, Vietnam has had diplomatic relations with more than 170 countries, exported goods to about 230 markets, signed over 150 free trade agreements, many bilateral trade agreements and about 12 multilateral agreements and is still negotiating a range of other trade agreements Vietnam has an advantage in trade with the world because most of its territory is adjacent to the East Sea, a coastline stretching 3,260 km and many large and small seaports have been built The quantity and value of goods delivered and delivered through seaports accounts for the majority of the total value of Vietnam's international freight forwarding Importing is to serve the development of the country, the problem is how to be both effective and cost-effective An important factor contributing to import efficiency is foreign trade work and organization To fully implement a foreign trade contract, it is indispensable to organize the transportation of goods from one country to another Import and delivery work plays this