the Freight Forwarder Award

The competition is held among freight forwarding companies operating in the container transportation segment.

The purpose of the project is to provide objective information about the current state of the container transportation market in Russia and its participants, to identify and encourage organizations and individual entrepreneurs who achieve outstanding success in the development of the container business, to encourage companies to further develop and transfer successful experience.

Benefits of participation:

Get an independent expert assessment of the market share of the Company;
To raise the Company's status in the Russian and international container business;
To determine the directions of the Company's further development;
To find new business partners and build constructive relationships that will contribute to the further successful development of the Company's business;
To receive information support for the Company's activities from the Organizer of the UMF International Container Forum, as well as information partners of the Organizer of the forum.

The first award ceremony took place on September 15, 2022, in Sochi, during the XII International Container Forum "UMF-2022".

Applications and registration of participants for 2024 are open until June 30, 2024!

Who can become a participant

Any freight forwarding company operating in the container transportation segment can become a participant. The company can relate to both small and large businesses. The competition is held separately among operating companies (owners of rolling stock), among freight forwarders (companies "without assets") of large businesses and separately among freight forwarders of small and medium-sized businesses.

The assessment of the participants' activities is based on the provided data on the company's activities for the reporting period, determined by the volume of work performed, financial indicators of container transportation, dynamic growth indicators compared to the previous reporting period, as well as examples of non-standard projects, outstanding achievements and feedback from the market.

The nominations of the Award:

Exporter of the Year

Assessment of the achievements of freight forwarders in the field of development of the export direction of container transportation

Importer of the Year

Assessment of the achievements of freight forwarders in the field of development of the import direction of container transportation

The Locomotive of domestic transportation

Assessment of the achievements of freight forwarders in the field of development of domestic transportation

Breakthrough of the Year

The achievements of companies that show rapid growth in the period considered in the Competition in relation to the previous one are evaluated according to various indicators: the volume of containers transported, new services, geography of presence (new branches), number of employees, etc.