In response to your second question “circumstances where a shipper will be worse of dealing with a Freight Forwarder rather than a NVOCC”, this cannot be quantified because in general terms a customer (whether exporter or importer) “appoints” a freight forwarder to act as their agent whereas they “employ the services” of a NVOCC as ... More @Wikipedia
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