An exporter has ten pallets of goods but cannot fill a full container—this is exactly where origin consolidation comes in: a freight forwarder collects part-loads from multiple shippers at a common collection point in the country of export and combines them into a single shipment.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_consolidation
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