CLEARING AND FORWARDING OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY
India is a peninsula and shipping activities have been always the key transport mode for the international trade. India has to rely heavily on shipping activities which, contributes significantly to the promotion of trade and to boost India's imports and exports on the international market. Agriculture is overwhelmingly the most important sector of the economy. Nearly twothirds of the government revenue is provided by the agriculture sector, mainly through export and import duties on various products. Therefore, the development of the whole economy is heavily influenced by the sector's performance. However, many problems are associated with the transportation of goods that result into high transit cost. These problems undoubtedly, make India's imports and exports less competitive on the international market. It is on this background that the analysis focuses on, more especially on the problems associated in the development of maritime transport and transit activities. The study will try to examine various problems associated with the transit of goods, including customs procedures and documentation particularly relevant to the transport industry, with a view to elimination these problems and make India imports and exports more competitive on the international markets. This study has been conducted with respect to Uni logistics Agency Private Limited, Chennai.