Sec. 7.5. "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.