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Freight Forwarders
Research rates, routings, or modes of transport for shipment of products. Maintain awareness of regulations affecting the international movement of cargo. Make arrangements for additional services, such as storage or inland transportation.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Negotiate shipping rates with freight carriers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Arrange for special transport of sensitive cargoes, such as livestock, food, or medical supplies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Arrange for applicable duties, taxes, or paperwork for customs clearance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Inform clients of factors such as shipping options, timelines, transfers, or regulations affecting shipments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare shipping documentation, such as bills of lading, packing lists, dock receipts, or certificates of origin.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Complete customs paperwork.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Prepare invoices or cost quotations for freight transportation.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Select shipment routes, based on nature of goods shipped, transit times, or security needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Calculate weight, volume, or cost of goods to be moved.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Arrange delivery or storage of goods at destinations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss2%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
59%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 71% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.