{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Freight consolidation","description":"Freight consolidation is the practice of combining partial shipments from multiple shippers into a single transport unit, improving capacity utilisation and reducing the freight cost per consignment. A freight forwarder or consolidation operator collects the goods, groups them by destination region, and moves them together – typically as LCL (less than container load) in sea freight or as groupage in road transport. Each shipper pays only for the space actually used, not for a dedicated full loa","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/freight-consolidation","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-06-22T10:00:49.468899","citation":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_consolidation","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/freight-consolidation","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Freight consolidation · Freight consolidation is the practice of combining partial shipments from multiple shippers into a single transport unit, improving capacity utilisation and reducing the freight cost per consignment. · Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_consolidation"}