| 摘要 |
A transportation logistics system (250) provides to vendors or shoppers, at the time of purchase, a total global delivered cost quote for shipping a product between locations. The system is accessible over packet switched networks (205), such as the Internet, or over a circuit switched network, such as traditional telephone networks, and includes a web server (260) and a proprietary database (280). A total delivered cost calculator engine (265) retrieves the necessary information from the database, given the requestor input, and performs the necessary calculations. The total delivered cost quote, which includes any applicable inland origin freight, inland destination freight, air freight, ocean freight, insurance, duties, taxes, custom clearance fee, import fee, or service fees is presented to the requestor with both ocean freight and air freight options. The transportation logistic system (250) can coordinate the shipment of the selected product to the delivery destination, and enables the payment of all quoted fees, if the requestor accepts the quote. |
