522900 Other transportation support activities


This type includes:

  • forwarding of freight
  • arranging or organising of transport operations by rail, road, sea or air
  • organisation of group and individual consignments (including pickup and delivery of goods and grouping of consignments)
  • issue and procurement of transport documents and waybills
  • activities of customs agents
  • activities of sea-freight forwarders and air-cargo agents
  • brokerage for ship and aircraft space
  • goods-handling operations, e.g. temporary crating for the sole purpose of protecting the goods during transit, uncrating, sampling, weighing of goods

This type excludes:

  • courier activities (see 532000)
  • provision of motor, marine, aviation and transport insurance (see 651202)
  • activities of travel agencies (see 7911)
  • activities of tour operators (see 791200)
  • tourist assistance activities (see 7990)

agents of air cargo; Cargo transport; consolidated shipment, recipience and organization; custom agents; dispatch of goods; freight handling; goods, forwarding; individual transport, composition; international transport, organization or execution; logistics; sea-freights, air-cargo, chartering; shipping agent; traffic mediation; transport commissioners for maritime cargo; transport documents, issuing and acquisition; transport of goods, organization or execution; transport, organization; use transport infrastructure

Codification rules

The code includes activities that are carried out before or after the shipment. This covers, for example, activities such as cargo handling, use of transport infrastructure, preparation of documents for transport or labelling for shipment etc.

Corresponding NOGA2002 codes