What Sea Freight services are there on offer?
Port to Port
Door to Port
Port to Door
Door to Door
All our pricing can include:
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Arranging a pickup - be from a port or a customer’s warehouse/factory/office.
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Preparing the export paperwork for customs to ensure it can leave the country.
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On arrival we would prepare the import customs paperwork.
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Residential Customers including eBay and Etsy shops
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We can advise on the duties and taxes and how to pay them.
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Once the goods are customs cleared, we would deliver to the door.
Terms to familiarise yourself with if you are new to seafreight
The term ‘FCL’ means a ‘full container load’ whether that be a 20ft or 40ft container.
To work out whether you would require this for your shipment a guide to the size of these containers is:
20ft containers
19’ 4” long x 7’ 9” wide and 7’ 10” high which in metric terms would be 5.898m long x 2.352m wide and 2.393m high.
40ft containers
39’ 6” long x 7’ 9” wide and 7’ 10” high which in metric terms would be 12.025m long x 2.352m wide and 2.393m high.
You can also get something called a ‘high cube container (HC Container) this will give you an extra foot in height with all other dimensions the same.
There are 2 common types of pallets, firstly the Euro pallet, with dimensions of 1.2m x 0.8m. The base of a 40-foot container can hold up to 25 Euro pallets but only as long as any load on the pallet is not over hanging any of the sides.
The other type of pallet is the standard American Pallet which has dimensions of 1.02m x 1.22m or 40” x 48”. The base of the 40 foot container in this case can cold 21 pallets again as long as any load on the pallet is not over hanging any of the sides.
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