Shipping with us
Clearance through arrival
Your cargo is cleared as part of its arrival. After that it is counted again against the Foshan figures and waits in our Dar es Salaam warehouse for you.
Free storage · 7 days after arrival
Services
Everything between your supplier and your shop
Sea cargo from China to Tanzania, and the work around it: a warehouse in Foshan, pickup from your supplier, clearance in Dar es Salaam, sourcing and special cargo.
01Sea cargo
Two ways to put your goods on the ship
Every shipment sails from Foshan to Dar es Salaam in a container. What you choose is whether you share the container or take one to yourself.
A · LCLLoose cargo
Not enough goods for a whole container? Your cartons share one with other customers' cargo. You pay only for the cubic metres (CBM) you use, and your consignment keeps its own reference the whole way.
How loose cargo is priced
CBM
Volume
Rate
Your goods
USD
Freight
Priced by type of goods, for example
- Baby Diaper
- Baby Toys
- Bales compressed
- Bedsheet
- Bicycle
The invoice is raised from the same rate book, in USD, and paid in shillings at the exchange rate of the day it is issued.
B · FCL
Full container
A container to yourself — loaded with your goods only and shipped from Foshan to Dar es Salaam. The better choice when you are filling most of a box.
- Your goods only, nobody else's in the box
- Sealed before it leaves, seal number recorded
- No waiting for a shared container to fill
Container sizes
20ft
Half the length of a forty
40ft
Twice the floor of a twenty
40ft high cube
A forty with extra height
02Foshan, China
China warehouse
Our warehouse in Nanhai, Foshan is where your goods first come into our hands. Your suppliers deliver to one address; we look after everything until it sails.
01
Receiving
Your supplier delivers with your shipping mark on every carton. We sign for it.
02
Counting
Cartons counted, weighed and measured. The CBM comes from our own measuring, not the supplier's paper.
03
Photos
Your goods are photographed on arrival, so you can see what reached us.
04
Storage
Held on our floor until the container you are booked on is loaded.
05
Consolidation
Goods from several suppliers under your mark wait together and sail together.
03China pickup
Supplier won't deliver? We collect.
Tell us where the goods are waiting — a factory, a showroom, a market stall — and we bring them to our Foshan warehouse.
From
Your supplier
Factory, showroom or market
To
Foshan warehouse
Received and measured like any delivery
04Dar es Salaam
Customs & clearance
When the container reaches Dar es Salaam port, our team takes it through customs and into our warehouse.
Your own container
Clearance only
Shipped with somebody else and need the container cleared at Dar es Salaam? Send us the details and the office will tell you what is needed.
05Around the shipment
Before you buy, and the odd-shaped cargo
Explore China's marketsSourcing
Sourcing in China
Know what you want to sell but not where to buy it? We know the markets and factory towns of South China, help you find suppliers, and check goods before they ship.
Describe your cargoSpecial
Special cargo
Machines, vehicles, heavy, long or delicate goods that need to be looked at before they are packed and priced. Describe it and we will tell you how it can travel.
Not sure which one?
Tell us what you are shipping
What the goods are and roughly how much. We will tell you whether loose cargo or a container is cheaper.