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How should exporters plan FCL or LCL shipments?
Start with cargo readiness, target arrival date, container type, and document cut-off. Book earlier in peak seasons and confirm free time before shipment.
When is air freight worth using?
Air freight is best for urgent, high-value, lightweight, or line-stopping cargo where the cost of delay is higher than the freight premium.
What causes customs delays?
Incorrect HS codes, missing certificate of origin or licenses, and discrepancies between invoices, packing lists, and declarations.
What is the key difference between FOB and CIF?
Under FOB, the seller bears cost and risk until cargo is loaded on board at origin. Under CIF, the seller also pays ocean freight and marine insurance to the destination port.
What do local shipping charges usually include?
Port handling (THC), Delivery Order (DO), container cleaning, documentation fees, and local inland fuel surcharges if applicable.
U.S. Tariffs, Frontloading and Traceability: What to Prepare
A practical analysis of tariff pressure, importer frontloading, port volumes and traceability, with a flow diagram and exporter checklist.
Air Freight to Vietnam: A 9-Point Booking and Import Checklist
A practical checklist for air cargo to Vietnam: chargeable weight, documents, special cargo, Incoterms, customs readiness, quote scope, and arrival planning.
China Port Delays After Severe Weather: An 8-Point Shipment Checklist
A practical checklist for verifying terminal status, vessel/voyage, cut-offs, equipment, transshipment, free time, surcharges and backup plans after disruption.
Shipping from China to Vietnam: Sea, Road or Air Freight?
Choose a China–Vietnam freight mode by deadline, cargo profile, pickup location, delivery scope and total landed logistics cost—not by freight price alone.
China Logistics Weekly: Typhoon Delays and Diverging Freight Rates, 10–16 August 2026
Typhoon Dolphin disrupted East China transport, intra-Asia rates reached a six-week high, and Shanghai export rates moved in different directions across major trades.
Imported-Goods Labels Under Decree 37/2026: What Must Be Physical at Customs?
Vietnam Customs has clarified how original labels, Vietnamese supplementary labels and electronic labels apply to imported goods under Decree 37/2026/ND-CP.