Freight · China → European Union
Freight is the easy half. The half that strands containers is everything around it: whether the goods were checked before they left, whether the documents match the cargo, and whether somebody established in the EU is ready to declare them.
The right mode is the one that hits the date you actually need at the lowest cost — which is not the same as the cheapest rate per kilogram.
The default for volume
Into Northern European and Baltic ports, as a full container or as consolidated groupage when you do not fill one. The lowest cost per unit by a wide margin.
The middle option
Faster than sea, cheaper than air. Useful for regular flows where you want to hold less stock without paying air rates every month.
Expensive, and sometimes the cheapest option
For launches, seasonal windows, urgent spare parts and anything where arriving late costs more than the freight bill.
Booking space on a ship is a commodity service, and there are good forwarders everywhere. The parts that go wrong sit either side of it.
Import
Importing into the EU
Who declares the goods, who pays the duty, and what each structure means for your VAT.
Service
Quality control
Shipping a bad batch quickly is not an achievement. Checking it first is the point.
Market
Shipping to the UAE
Jebel Ali and Dubai, paid directly to our Chinese company.
We quote per shipment and put the figure in the contract instead of publishing one. Real transit depends on the production queue at the factory, consolidation, sailing schedules, port congestion, customs and the final leg. The gap between a smooth run and a difficult one on the same route is measured in weeks, and a number in a brochure hides that rather than answering it.
By working backwards from the date you need the goods, not forwards from the cheapest rate. Sea is the default for volume. Rail sits between sea and air on both cost and time and is useful for regular replenishment. Air is for cargo where being late costs more than the freight — a launch, a season, a line stoppage.
Yes, and it is one of the more useful things we do. Goods from different factories come into our warehouse in Guangzhou or Yiwu, are checked, then shipped as one consignment. That means one set of documents, one customs entry and often a container instead of several part loads.
Yes. The final leg to your warehouse is part of the quote rather than a surprise afterwards, and we tell you upfront which port of entry we propose and why.
Describe the product and the volume. We come back with a workable structure, a quote including landed cost, and an honest lead time — or with the reasons we would not take it on.