With China's accession to the WTO, increasing strong growth of foreign trade in China provides a broader market and development space for the freight forwarding agents. At the same time, with the freight forwarders completely opening to the international market, the foreign freight forwarders will rush into the Chinese market to snatch market share and talents. For Ningbo, a higher dependence on foreign trade city, entry into the WTO has brought about tremendous challenges. At present, the freight forwarding company in Ningbo is faced with monopolistic competition, as well as the lack of internal service core competencies, narrow scope of business, lack of high-quality personnel, relay on the international trade and other internal problems. In this situation, Ningbo freight forwarders need to get a clear understanding of the current competitive environment, to pay attention to their own problems, to re-think their position and destination, to find and build the core competitiveness of enterprises. As an example for Ningbo Ruida, this paper focuses on the present problems and how to get out of the present problems for the freight forwarding companies in Ningbo.
KEYWORDS：freight forwarders, development obstacles，solutions
