How much and how is ocean freight charged?
When you ship by sea, you should already see if you are shipping in groupage (LCL) or in full container (FCL). If you choose a groupage solution, you will have to pay consolidation and deconsolidation operations at the departure and destination terminal. Finally, in both cases you will have to pay fixed charges including port charges, customs clearance fees, packaging ...
When to choose maritime groupage (LCL) or full container (FCL)?
When shipping goods by sea freight, you can opt for a groupage solution (LCL) where you will share the container with other shippers. In general, we recommend this solution if you have less than 14/15 cubic meters. On the other hand, if you have more than 15 cubic meters, we advise you to reserve a whole container 20 feet. Even if you only fill the container halfway with its capacity of 33 cubic meters, the whole container (FCL) will be more profitable.
At what volume does sea freight become interesting?
Sea freight is interesting from 1.5 cubic meters. This method of transport is the slowest but it is also the cheapest, by far! You then have the option of consolidate by sea (LCL) or reserving a full container (FCL). Usually we advise the full container since you have more than 14/15 cubic meters.
What are the advantages of sea freight?
Sea freight, if not a very slow solution, has the advantage of being the most economical solution for shipping large volume around the world. With a network of ports in all the coastal countries of the world, this method will allow you to reach your destination in a secure and cheap manner.
When does air freight become attractive?
As mentioned, air freight has the main advantage of being the fastest transport method available on the market, reach your destination on the other side of the world in just a few days! Unfortunately expensive for high volume shipment, air cargo can also simply become the cheapest solution when you ship small cargoes (usually less than 1.5 cubic meters).
What are the air freight restrictions?
Air freight is subject to significant restrictions on the shipment of goods. Besides the fact that the volume is limited (exceptional convoys cannot for example enter a plane), many products are not allowed to be sent by plane. This is for example the case of explosive products, flammable liquid gases, toxic and infectious articles, corrosive articles and dangerous goods in general (batteries for example).
How much and how is air freight charged?
When you ship by air, you naturally have the price of air freight which is invoiced in Kgs (generally between 2 USD and 4 USD per Kgs). Remember that the airline will invoice based on the most important value between the gross weight (on the scale) and the volumetric weight (1 cubic meter = 167 Kgs). In addition to freight costs, you will also be subject to airport charges and other conventional charges, in particular during customs clearance with customs duties and taxes.
What are the advantages of air freight?
As you might have guessed, the main advantage of air cargo is simply its speed of execution. Indeed, in a few days your cargo can be shipped from one end to the other of the world when it would have taken more than 40 days by sea. In addition to the speed of execution, air freight has a worldwide coverages since it includes the majority of international airports in the world, a way to streamline shipments but also to limit road freight costs on departure and / or arrival.
Rail freight
Rail charter represents a solution between sea and air freight, the happy medium: cheaper than air freight and two times faster than sea freight. Exploit the new Silk Road with this growing method of transportation.
Trucking services
Road transport will surely be a mandatory step, if it does not make it possible to complete the entire logistics cycle by truck, it will nevertheless make it possible to link the origin, the final destination and all various terminals (ports, airports and / or train station).
Express transport
Use the power of the couriers companies that dominate our market: DHL, FedEx, UPS, TNT ... This method of transport will be optimal if you have a small weight / volume to transport (generally less than 100/150 Kgs). Beyond that, air freight will become more profitable!
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