Can one company be both a carrier and a broker?

European logistics businesses operate in both capacities regularly. A company runs its own vehicles on lanes where it holds coverage and brokers loads to other operators where it does not. Which capacity applies to a shipment is settled by the consignment note — named as carrier, it holds the carriage contract; another operator named there means it acted as broker on that booking

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