'Freight forwarder' means any person that:(1) holds itself out to the general public (other than as a pipeline, rail, motor, air, or water carrier) as a provider of transportation of property for compensation; and(2) in the ordinary course of its business:(A) assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and performs or provides for breakbulk and distribution operations of the shipments;(B) assumes responsibility for the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination; and(C) uses a carrier subject to this article for any part of the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination.As added by P.L.42-2007, SEC.2.
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