One of the most important relationships you will have as an exporter is with your freight forwarder. Freight forwarders are businesses that can facilitate all the logistics and paperwork required to get your products from your factory or warehouse to your international customer.

If the additional administration needed for customs clearance and international shipment is putting you off selling overseas go and talk to a freight forwarder as they can make the process very straight forward.

This is Midlands Export the new podcast from the Department for International Trade in the Midlands.

My name is David James and in this episode I’m talking to Rachel Morley, Export Champion and General Manager of Leicestershire based Spatial Global.

We find out what freight forwarders do, how to find the right forwarder for your business and the type of paperwork you will need to be aware of as an exporter and how freight forwarders can do a lot of it for you.

To start or accelerate your own export success story visit great.gov.uk and click on the ‘contact an international trade adviser’ link which is on the front page.