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title: "Shipping, Freight & Cargo | Federated Banking™"
description: "Settle every leg of the shipment, in every currency it touches. Freight Collections, Carrier Payments, Agent Settlement and more for Shipping, Freight & Cargo on Federated Banking™."
url: https://federatedbanking.com/sectors/shipping/
lang: en-GB
source: "Federated Banking"
---

> Settle every leg of the shipment, in every currency it touches. Freight Collections, Carrier Payments, Agent Settlement and more for Shipping, Freight & Cargo on Federated Banking™.

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Travel, transport and property

# Shipping, Freight & Cargo

Settle every leg of the shipment, in every currency it touches.

Freight payments, carriers, ports, duties, FX, settlement and trade flows. Coordinate customer collections, carrier and agent payments, port charges, duties and FX across routes, partners and jurisdictions.

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Capabilities

## What you build on Federated Banking™

1

### Freight Collections

Initiate, receive and track payments across connected financial providers.

2

### Carrier Payments

Initiate, receive and track payments across connected financial providers.

3

### Agent Settlement

Coordinate financial obligations between participants.

4

### Duties & Fees

Create, track and reconcile commercial financial obligations.

5

### FX

Quote and exchange currencies across configured financial providers.

6

### Trade Payments

Initiate, receive and track payments across connected financial providers.

Participants

## Who takes part

Federated Banking™ connects them through one operating layer, whichever providers sit underneath.

Forwarder Shippers Carriers Agents Ports Customs Banks

[Rails, standards and regulators in the directory](https://federatedbanking.com/directory/?sector=shipping)

Typical flow

## How the money moves, step by step

1. **Invoice received**
2. **Approved**
3. **Payment prepared**
4. **Financial provider selected**
5. **Payment sent**
6. **Reconciled**

Live demonstration

## See it in the terminal

A supplier payment through the provider best suited to it; when that provider does not answer, another one completes it (demo). Demo data

**Demo** Every organisation, provider, person and amount on this page is fictional, and nothing moves real money. Federated Banking™ works with the licensed providers you connect; it owns no payment rail.

Glossary

## Key terms for this sector

[Payment](https://federatedbanking.com/glossary/payment) [Collection](https://federatedbanking.com/glossary/collection) [Settlement](https://federatedbanking.com/glossary/settlement) [Provider](https://federatedbanking.com/glossary/provider) [Operating layer](https://federatedbanking.com/glossary/operating-layer)

Other sectors

## Related sectors

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