subject: New Ideas To Save Freight When Import Furniture [print this page] The Sea Frieght is getting high those days, as the current economy situation. the shipping company deduce some ship line to crash the transport capiability. For the furniture importer, we should make full use your container. don't waste your transport cost on the road.
Here we would like to list some tips to make full use of the container.
1, Use the load software to calculate your goods, when you place your order. Keep in mind.20' normal container just can load 27m3--28m3. but the software can help you to load about 30M3.the same thing to 40'HQ.
2.Try to use the 40'HQ, not 20'GP and 40'GP. which can save your inland truck fee. you can image that 20'GP or 40'GP use a lorry, but 40'HQ also use a lorry.also 40'HQ is almost the same price with 40'GP. but 40'HG have about 10M3 more.
3.When you buy some products, you should think some size and packing size of your products, maybe you just deduce 1cm or 2cm of your products, you can load more products in your container.but 1cm or 2cm of your products have nothing to your customer.
4.Design your packing of your products, the same product can have several packing way, there are a way to make full use of your container.
5.Try to ship your order to your customer directly, not to your warehouse, then from your warehouse customer's warehouse.which means you must have worker to unload the container, and load the lorry to your customer.also you must cost more inland lorry freight.
6.Try to mix some different items. sometime if you just load one single item, as the packing size, you maybe cannot make full use of the container,but if you can mix some different products, you can make more CBM in the container.
7, Try to keep the same shipping forwarder,then you can get a better rate.
8. No matter how you can save your freight, you must protect your products well. otherwise you will lose more.
