News & Updates
Shipping News, Route Updates & Practical Guides
Service announcements, capacity and peak-season updates, and practical advice on packing, customs paperwork and choosing the right freight mode.
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Duty deferment for smaller importers: what actually changes
Duty deferment is one of those arrangements that sounds like an accounting technicality and turns out to be a cash flow decision. Instead of paying duty and import VAT shipment by shipment, at the…
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Five packing mistakes behind most LCL damage claims
Consolidated freight travels alongside other people’s cargo, gets restacked at least twice between origin and destination, and is handled by forklift crews who have never met your product and have no idea what is…
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Rail versus sea on the Asia to Europe corridor: when the extra cost pays
Rail between Asia and Europe occupies an awkward middle ground. It costs more than ocean and less than air, and it arrives sooner than a vessel and later than a freighter. That makes it…
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Customs holds: the four causes we see most, and how to avoid them
Almost every hold we deal with comes down to paperwork that could have been fixed before the goods left. A short field guide.
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Peak season is early this year: book space by late August
Carriers are already reporting tight westbound allocation for October. Here is what we are advising customers to do about it.
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Second weekly LCL consolidation added on the Rotterdam lane
From September the Elizabeth CFS closes twice a week instead of once, cutting up to four days off door-to-door times for groupage cargo.