BUILT AROUNDWHAT YOU SHIP
A season of footwear and a grid transformer need different plans. The cargo decides the programme, not the other way round.
Ten sectors we book for
What moves, where it usually goes wrong, and what we do about it.
Fashion and footwear
Cartons of garments and shoes out of Asia, mostly part container, moving to a season date.
The on-sale date is the deadline. Freight that lands three weeks late is sold at markdown, so lateness costs far more than the shipping did.
Weekly consolidations out of Shanghai and Singapore, booked back from the on-sale date rather than forward from the ready date, with air held for the last cut.
Retail
Replenishment volume into distribution centres, full pallets, on a delivery schedule the retailer sets.
A missed booking-in slot is a rejected delivery and a fine, and the next slot can be a week out.
We book the slot before the container is collected and hold the vehicle to it. If the wharf slips, you get the new slot from us, not a rejection notice from your customer.
Technology and electronics
Devices, components and spares, high value per kilo, and almost always with a battery in the box.
Lithium is dangerous goods. A shipment declared wrong is offloaded at the screening point and nobody tells you for two days.
We classify the cells against the state of charge and the packing, do the declaration properly, and tell you before booking when a consignment cannot fly.
Medical and healthcare
Devices, consumables and reagents, often with a temperature range and a shelf life printed on the carton.
An excursion or a delayed clearance eats the shelf life the receiver was counting on, and the stock is written off rather than delayed.
Temperature controlled units where the product needs one, permits filed ahead of arrival, and clearance prioritised over anything else on the vessel.
Automotive and industrial
Production parts on a schedule, and spares that are needed the moment a machine stops.
A line down costs more per hour than the entire freight bill. The problem is never the plan, it is the exception nobody escalated.
Scheduled volume by sea, an air lane priced and ready for the parts that cannot wait, and a call the hour we hear a sailing has rolled.
Energy and renewables
Blades, nacelles, transformers and switchgear. Single pieces, oversized, going to a site that was a field last year.
The route, not the ocean. A bridge, a roundabout or an overhead line stops a load a mile from where it is needed.
Route survey first, then permits, escorts and a lift plan with an engineer on it. Sea and land on one schedule so nothing waits on a crane booked by someone else.
Mining and resources
Plant, spares and consumables inland, and breakbulk or bulk product out.
The last two hundred kilometres. Roads that close in the wet, weight limits that change, and a site with one crane.
We plan the inland leg first and let it decide the port and the sailing, rather than landing a box at a terminal and starting to think about the truck.
Building and construction
Mixed loads. Steel, fixtures, cladding and plant, arriving against a build programme.
Deliveries land before the site can take them, and storage on a live site costs more than storage in a shed.
Call-off from a bonded or plain warehouse against the programme, so material arrives the week the trade needs it and not the month it shipped.
Food and beverage
Chilled and ambient product in reefer or dry containers, with a shelf life running the whole way.
Quarantine and inspection. A held container loses days of shelf life and gains storage charges at the same time.
Permits and treatment certificates lodged before arrival, reefer set points recorded from plug-in to unplug, and inspection booked rather than waited on.
Agriculture and commodities
Bagged and bulk product moving in a short window, with fumigation and origin certificates attached.
The season compresses everything. Space, containers and vessels are all short at once, and rates move weekly.
Space committed ahead of the window rather than bought inside it, and the fumigation and phytosanitary paperwork run in parallel with the booking.
Your sector is not on the list
Send the cargo and the date it has to land. If we have not moved it before we will tell you, and we will still price it.
READY TO SEE WHERE IT IS?
Tell us what you move and where it goes. We will price the lane and show you what tracking looks like on a real shipment.