Oceanfreight
Full container, part container and consolidation on direct and transhipment services, booked against a named sailing rather than a week.
- FCL, LCL, breakbulk
- 9 to 32 days port to port
- Container, or volume and weight
What the price covers
Space against a named sailing
The confirmation carries the vessel, the voyage number and the cutoff. When a sailing blanks you hear it from us, with the next two options already attached.
Origin handling
Collection, export clearance, verified gross mass and terminal receipt, arranged by the people who quoted the lane.
Weekly consolidations
Under 15 cubic metres is usually cheaper consolidated than it is as a part-filled 20ft. We will tell you which way round your load falls.
Free time watched from discharge
Demurrage and detention start on a date. You get that date when the box lands, not the invoice a fortnight later.
Three stages, one team
Book the sailing
Rate, vessel and cutoff confirmed in writing, with origin charges, freight and destination charges on one page.
Move and clear
Gate in, load, departure, every port call and berthing. Our brokers file the entry while the container is still on the water.
Deliver and close
Haulage booked to your window, proof of delivery sent, and every document filed against the container number.
Transit times are the published port to port figures. They are not a delivery date, and we quote the door date separately so you can hold your customer to one number.
Four things in the email
Send these and the number comes back. Send fewer and you get a range.
- Origin and destination, door or port
- Commodity, and the HS code if you have one
- Packing list with dimensions and gross weight
- Incoterm and the date the cargo is ready
The rest of it
Every one of these is run by the same team, so a shipment that needs three of them is still one booking.