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What is CFR? CFR (Cost and Freight) is an Incoterm where the seller pays freight to a named port of destination, but risk transfers to the buyer when goods cross the ship’s rail at the port of shipment, before the goods have even left the origin country. CFR applies to sea and inland waterway transport […]