. Agency reports and Advisory Commission Section 19. Ocean freight forwarders transportation intermediaries Section 20. Contracts, agreements, and licenses under prior shipping...-operating common carrier. (19) " ocean freight forwarder" means a person in the United States that-- (A) dispatches shipments from the United States via common carriers and books... transportation intermediary" means an ocean freight forwarder or a non-vessel-operating common carrier. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term (A) ocean freight forwarder means...