F.A.Q

International Logistics Frequently Asked Questions

1.What is Collective Transportation?

Overseas Chinese buy goods on domestic e-commerce platforms (Taobao Tmall, 1688, Jingdong) and then send the parcels to China's domestic consolidation warehouses, and the consolidation company then transports the parcels overseas and arranges a kind of logistics to itself.





Common problems and solutions in international freight transportation
1、Customs inspection and detention of goods
2、Lost and damaged goods
3、Running away: the tow truck driver towed the goods away and disappeared, and the freight forwarder company disappeared after collecting the freight.
4、Order suddenly canceled, the forwarding company is not willing to cooperate with the customs clearance
5、Can't figure out which goods can't be divided into single or combined single?
6, the export category, such as food, bamboo products, what must pay attention to matters?
7、Insurance problems of logistics

8、No bill of lading goods were taken away
9、No one informs and reminds the customer of the customs regulations of each country, and when the customer abandons the goods at the port, he will lose all his money.
10、Lack of experience in consolidation, the agent of the destination port charges nonsense, the customer refuses to pick up the goods.
Solutions

★1, not before the shipment, require the freight company to provide complete bill of lading information to avoid unnecessary costs!

Do foreign trade know that the order is ready to complete, before shipment must be requested to the consignee for a complete bill of lading information, specific to the consignee's ZIP CODE/enterprise code or tax code (details according to when the country regulations).

If you provide incomplete bill of lading information, make up the information, change the information may be faced with paying the bill of lading fee and penalties.

★2. Freight Pit: huge changes in freight rates across the months, eating big losses

Most of the shipping companies in the market usually increase the price at the beginning of the month, the middle of the month, such as the receipt of goods is not ideal, the end of the month may gradually reduce the price.

Therefore, when there is a conflict between the delivery date and the production period, it is recommended that you communicate with your freight company in advance, flexible deployment, to avoid losses due to changes in freight rates at this time.

Inter-month freight fluctuations in the region: ocean line (Europe, the Caribbean, South America, the United States and Canada, the Middle East Red Sea line)


★3, the ship date and arrival date does not match the contract penalty

Foreign trade people should be clear before the shipment of their goods when they are ready, when to arrive at the port. This facilitates the freight forwarding company will correspond to the ship date screening out, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each ship, to give customers 2-3 choices.

Never pick only the cheapest, our customers, there is one experienced a painful lesson: because the goods to be transported to Africa, when the freight forwarding company did not remind him of the specific time to the port, he chose the cheapest route, the results of that cabinet a dump again and again, late for a month, and finally spent a great deal of effort to save the customer.

★4, the importance of subdividing the port terminal

There are a lot of ports in the world with similar spelling, and the same port, but also subdivided into different terminals / customs area.

As a professional logistics provider, freight forwarding sales in the customer inquiries, we must confirm the final terminal, in order to facilitate customs clearance.

For example: KUWAIT port is divided into SHUWAIKH/SHUAIBA 2 terminals, the customer needs to inform which terminal to go. JAKARTA terminal is divided into No. 1/2/3 terminal customers also need to specify the specific which terminal, some ships some terminals are not port, so be sure to confirm clearly in advance.

★5, awareness of intellectual property rights, pay attention to the trademark filing declaration, etc.

Foreign trade in OEM cases are everywhere, for the customer's own brand, it is recommended that the factory must be checked before accepting the order of the OEM brand is domestic filing, so as not to get into trouble, infringement of the defendant.

In 2019, customs instructions with R/TRADEMARK letters of goods are considered imitation brand, so you need to strictly choose the port of departure before shipping.

★6, transshipment of goods need to have a standard process and show the terms of transshipment on the bill of lading

In our many years of experience in freight transportation, we often meet the need to transit goods, such as goods to Calcutta, India, but the actual transfer to Nepal, then in the bill of lading description of the goods, it is necessary to add the transit terms of this information: CARGO IN TRANSITTO X VIA X BY X....

Only by adding this transshipment clause, the shipping company can do transnational transportation smoothly, and then must inform both sides of the cost and risk of transshipment, and the bill of lading on the CNEE can be the final consignee of the country of arrival.


★7. Importance of Free Time Application and Confirmation of Approval

All transshipment has a time limit, 21 days of FREETIME is naturally indispensable, otherwise the consignee will have to pay for this overdue container rent.

Relative to simple freight, in addition to other destination countries, freight companies should take the initiative to help customers apply for FT, after all, the default FT is usually not enough.

★ 8, bulk cargo / LCL clear destination port charges

Many times

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