Logistics consultancy for exporters and overseas buyers

It covers mode and route selection, landed-cost review, documentation and compliance strategy, and planning for a new market. The scope is agreed before work begins, so you know which parts of your shipping are reviewed and what you receive.

No, the consultancy stands on its own. You can take the recommendation to any forwarder. Most clients find it useful that the advisers can also carry out the plan, but that is a choice, and implementation is quoted separately from the advice.

A quote prices one movement, while a review looks at the pattern across your shipments. It asks whether mode, routing, packing and documentation are right overall, and what changing them is worth. Three quotes for one booking cannot answer that.

Landed cost is the full price of getting goods to your buyer’s premises, not just the freight rate. Add the goods, main freight, handling, documentation charges, destination duties and taxes, and delivery inland. Duties and statutory taxes are set by the authorities, so we list them separately.

It makes sense when the goods are not needed urgently and the stock can be planned ahead. Sea freight is often more affordable per unit than air for heavy cargo, but it ties up stock for longer. A review compares both against your sales pattern, so you do not pay air rates for slow sellers.

Weigh the cost of a stopped production line against the cost of faster freight. Critical parts may justify air, while steady volume suits sea or road. We model each option against your real deadlines and volumes, then show whether a mixed approach helps.

Check that the new route can hold the temperature range your buyer’s specification asks for, and that the paperwork matches. A more affordable route is no use if the cargo is rejected. We review route, handling and documents together before you commit.

The Harmonised System (HS) code decides which duty rules and schemes apply, so classification comes first. We check classification, licensing and export scheme eligibility, meaning whether your product qualifies for government export schemes, before you commit to a route, and flag any gap that could hold the cargo at the port.

Start with the buyer’s delivery terms, the likely order size and the documents the destination asks for. We then compare routes and modes, set out the landed cost and list what to prepare, so your first consumer goods or retail shipment is not a trial run.

Gather your shipment list, freight invoices, product details and delivery deadlines. Rough figures are enough to start. We use them to find where cost has grown and which routes no longer suit the product, and we can review warehouse layout at the same time.