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Oftentimes, people mix this up, but they’re not the same thing.

Freight forwarding is all the port work. When goods land from outside Nigeria, it’s Apapa, Tin Can, clearing agents, customs, documents, all that stress of trying to release your container. Sometimes your goods are already in Nigeria, but still stuck in the port.

Logistics is everything after that. Getting the goods out of the port, moving them through Lagos traffic, storing them, and delivering them to places like Yaba, Ikeja, Lekki, or wherever it’s going.

At Apapa, you can clear something today and still not see it leave the port until days later. That part is freight forwarding. The moment it leaves the port and starts moving through Lagos roads, that’s logistics taking over.

Most importers in Nigeria don’t separate them because you usually need both just to get goods from outside the country to where people can actually buy them.

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Oftentimes, people mix this up, but they’re not the same thing.

Most importers in Nigeria don’t separate them because you usually need both just to get goods from outside the country to where people can actually buy them.

freight forwarding vs Logistics

freight forwarding vs Logistics