{"id":4528,"date":"2018-12-03T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bhlsports.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2022-07-30T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T10:29:32","slug":"shipping-methods-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/shipping-methods-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Shipping Methods for Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shipping-methods-for-businesses\"><strong>Shipping Methods for Businesses<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to buying products&nbsp;in bulk, it&nbsp;is important to consider the expenses&nbsp;involved in shipping them. Thankfully, there a number of&nbsp;options available for&nbsp;you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to ship your product&nbsp;shipments internationally, planes, trains, boats and trucks are all used to ship goods between different countries. Nonetheless, different methods of&nbsp;the&nbsp;postage suit different circumstances and scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-we-need-to-calculate-shipping-cost\"><strong>What we need to calculate shipping cost?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first information you&nbsp;will need in any case is the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Package weight<\/li><li>Package height, width and depth<\/li><li>Origin and destination country<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-are-the-options-for-shipping\"><strong>What are the options for Shipping?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you have that&nbsp;information, Now you can consider your options for shipping. If you&nbsp;are using an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhlsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overseas manufacturer<\/a> and you&nbsp;are new to the industry, they will usually help you through that&nbsp;process, although there are some factors to be considered&nbsp;regarding your options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Air<\/li><li>Sea <\/li><li>FOB<\/li><li>Courier Shipment<\/li><li>Freight Forwarding<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-air\"><strong>Air<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Shipping items by air is the fastest&nbsp;way&nbsp;but also the most expensive way to move a bulk shipment. Although,&nbsp;there are express and economy services available&nbsp;there, likely the costs are run into hundreds, if there are not thousands of pounds for a reasonably-sized product range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Express couriers usually have their own planes which run every day from the world\u2019s manufacturing hubs, where-as economy shippers will usually contract out space on other company\u2019s planes on a weekly or two-weekly basis. Because&nbsp;the&nbsp;plane space is limited, air freight rates are based on volumetric weight of a shipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sea\"><strong>Sea<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sea freight is generally suited to very large shipments which will&nbsp;be completely uneconomical to transport by air \u2013 often the price&nbsp;is 4-6 times cheaper, however obviously the time-frames&nbsp;are involved much longer.&nbsp;As an example, 6 weeks is typical for sea freight from China to the Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sea freight is uneconomical for the small shipments because the space in which you rent would usually be by a palette, half container, or full container, all of which,&nbsp;are costly up front but very worthwhile if you have a very large amount of your products&nbsp;to transport. With sea freight the volumetric weight is not as important as it is via air, The meaning is, a heavier shipment will be cheaper to send by sea than&nbsp;the&nbsp;one of a comparable physical size by air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fob\"><strong>FOB<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>FOB stands for \u201cFree On Board\u201d&nbsp;and it&nbsp;is something you should be aware of if you&nbsp;are dealing with overseas suppliers. Sometimes&nbsp;the suppliers are&nbsp;quote FOB shipping, however be aware, this will only get your items as far as the port in the origin country, meaning&nbsp;is,&nbsp;then you have to arrange a courier to transport them to your destination country as well as dealing with everything in between like documents fees, licence charges, insurance and customs declarations&nbsp;etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-courier-shipment\"><strong>Courier Shipment&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Most&nbsp;of the well-known worldwide couriers like DHL, FedEx, and UPS are able to facilitate door-to-door shipping of your goods, using fast, fully-tracked and reliable service. Comparing&nbsp;to freight couriers are far more expensive because they have huge overheads for&nbsp;running their own network of planes and vans worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the well-known international couriers offer door-to-door shipping for bulk shipments from one country to another, including pick up services and&nbsp;the&nbsp;time slot delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-freight-forwarding\"><strong>Freight Forwarding<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A freight forwarder is an agent who acts on behalf of&nbsp;the&nbsp;importers, exporters or the other companies to organize&nbsp;the safe and cost-effective transportation of goods internationally. They will collect your shipment at one end,&nbsp;will&nbsp;handle the transportation to the destination country, and then when it reaches the destination,&nbsp;they will arrange the package&nbsp;with a local domestic courier to deliver for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freight Forwarding is a convenient &amp; cost-effective way of transporting bulk items in a reasonable&nbsp;quick time-frame&nbsp;around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Edited:<\/strong>&nbsp;Sourced By&nbsp;@Howthorninc<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-duotone-rgb515151-ccc-1\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shipping-process.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19663\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shipping-process.jpg 650w, https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shipping-process-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping Methods for Businesses When it comes to buying products&nbsp;in bulk, it&nbsp;is important to consider the expenses&nbsp;involved in shipping them. Thankfully, there a number of&nbsp;options available for&nbsp;you. If you want to ship your product&nbsp;shipments internationally, planes, trains, boats and trucks are all used to ship goods between different countries. Nonetheless, different methods of&nbsp;the&nbsp;postage suit different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27],"tags":[25,26,28,29],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-import-export","category-shipping","tag-business","tag-overseas","tag-shipping-methods","tag-top","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shipping-process.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahlolintl.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}