The fundamental mission of the classic freight forwarders is organization of dispatch, delivery and transport of material goods from one place to another by using all transport means and all transportation routes, according to the contract of freight forwarding. Classic freight forwarders, in generally, are not at the same time carriers, warehouse managers, shipping agents, multimodal transport operators. By joining some countries in transition in the European Union it eliminates the need for conventional freight forwarding customs brokerage in the European Customs Union. Classic freight forwarders in the area of the European Union are long ago transformed into logistics operators who specialize in managing transport logistics distribution chains, transport and logistics networks. Therefore, the classic freight forwarders of countries in transition must constantly adapt to modern market, i.e. manufacturing, trade, storage, transportation, distribution, logistics, technological, organizational, economic, legal, environmental and other requirements of potential customers in the world, to the global forwarding market. In this paper we have elucidated the fundamental challenges faced by international freight forwarders from countries in transition in the context of entering their native countries in the European Union
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