• Rates are in US Dollars.
  
• This is to the port only – these rates do not include custom clearance or any duties on your side.  We suggest you check now with your customs broker to assess the costs of trucking / delivery to your place of business.
• Rates valid until the end of February, 2012
• Carrier: Maersk

As always, if you do have a better offer, we’re happy to work with your cargo company.

If you have never shipped before, you may want to read through our page on shipping cost effectively:

http://www.indonesiaexport.com/freight.php

Regards,

Sean

Shipping Bali to Texas, 2011.

Here are the LCL rates valid until end of March (but probably good for another couple of months).

First part of the table is to the port only, second part is to the door.

Rates show first cubic meter and a total estimate for 8 cubic meters.

We are planning on importing guitars from Bali to Montreal Canada, what do you recommend as method of shipping? we are planning to purchase 50 guitars at a time. air?sea?

Thank you,

Roger from Canada

The Answer:

Hi Roger,

LCL Sea Cargo, definitely. Yes you have to wait a long time and yes there is a greater risk of damage but guitars are light and bulky; you’ll get murdered on shipping charges trying to ship those by courier or air freight.

For more information, please take a look at:

http://www.indonesiaexport.com/freight.php

You may also find this article of interest:

http://www.indonesiaexport.com/wordpress/2010/07/06/shipping-handicrafts-or-furniture-lcl-from-bali-to-the-uk/

By the way, I’m assuming you’re talking about full sized guitars… if you’re talking about miniature guitars, they may still be cost-effective by courier, Indonesian post (express and standard).

Regards,

Sean

Before I go any further, let me be clear: first time buyers and importers are very important to us – in the same way that every journey begins with a single step, so every working relationship begins with one small order.

In this case, however, it simply wouldn’t be right to accept an order without warning the potential client about the downsides of her plan.

If you’re interested in importing small orders to the UK (or anywhere else) by Less than Container Load (LCL) Sea Cargo, you may find the following to be of interest.

When it comes to furniture, there are two main drawbacks to shipping less than full container loads:

1. Cost of Shipping
2. Possibility of Damage

We picked out one of our Teak Root Coffee Tables to illustrate:

TRF-0144 is a fairly representative example of our Teak Root coffee tables. It measures (height x width x depth) 48 x 90 x 75 cm and is priced at US$157.89 – total value for 5 pieces: US$789.45.

In terms of cubic volume, that gives us approximately one-third of a cubic meter (0.33 CBM) but, as you may already know, LCL Sea Cargo requires a lot of extra packing material and sturdy wood crating in order to protect the products in shipping – we estimate the volume would be around half a cubic meter (0.5 CBM) once crated so 5 pieces would work out 2.5 cubic meters.

One of the first disadvantages of LCL shipping is that your overall volume is greater than it would be in a container, air cargo or courier shipment.  In this example, if you were shipping by container, you would be able to fit 3 coffee tables per cubic meter; by LCL you can only fit 2 of the tables per cubic meter.

Now let’s talk the actual freight costs.

Here’s a recent rate (July 2010) for LCL shipping from Bali to the UK:

In this rate, you can see we’ve given the total charge for 1 cubic meter as well as a few more total volumes – including our estimate for this order – so we can all see how the rate improves as the total size of the order increases.

Always with LCL, the first cubic meter is the most expensive because while many of the charges are per cubic meter, other charges like Fumigation, Documents and so on are the same for 5 CBM as they are for 1 CBM. That said, 2.5 cubic meters still gives you a pretty expensive per cubic meter cost of US$261.93 and, remember, this rate is only to the port – there will be more charges on the UK side for clearing customs, delivery to the final address, tax and so on.

The total cost of shipping 2.5 cubic meters — US$654.83 — will probably end up being more than the total invoice value of the products at US$789.45.

Long story short: in this case, the shipping is too expensive to justify the order.

The next issue is fragility. From the moment your wood crates leave our warehouse until they arrive at your door in the UK, they will have been loaded and unloaded at least six times (between trucking and consolidation).

Each time your crates are handled, they run the risk of being damaged – that’s why we always advise customers that we cannot guarantee products will arrive in good condition.

We’re not saying LCL isn’t safe; we are saying that certain ‘fragile’ products have a higher risk attached to shipping by LCL.

We’re happy to guarantee our products in a container but simply cannot guarantee them by LCL sea cargo.

Ok, that’s basically the email I sent the client earlier today – hopefully someone out there will have found the information useful.

Regards,

Sean

Also note, fumigation is the same for 1 cubic meter as it is for 5 cubic meters.

…and have a couple questions. I am wondering do you have size restrictions for product going in a less then container load. I would like some giraffes and and elephants, but would like to now the max size I can put in less then container load shipment ?.  I am unsure of how this shipping by sea works ?

Hi James,

We do have restrictions (more like guidelines really) on LCL shipments.

Things you need to know include:

LCL transit time to Canada can be as much as six weeks (that’s six weeks transit from our warehouse in Bali to your closest port).

With LCL, you’re being charged by the cubic meter so the smaller and more valuable the item, the more value for money you get from your shipment. Let’s say you can get 4 giraffes to a cubic meter, that will cost you the same amount to ship as 100 masks – makes the giraffes a very expensive shipment but makes the masks cost-effective and therefore profitable. By the way, those aren’t real numbers – you’ll get more masks and more giraffes per cubic meter – just making a point.

Next, for LCL, everything is usually packed inside sturdy wood crates. You need to know that wood packaging materials are required by Canadian customs to be kiln-dried, government approved agency inspected and certified over here in Indonesia and fumigated to a particular standard (ISPM#15). That’s expensive.

We have had one customer in Canada avoid the wood crate charges by shipping with Scanwell.  This freight company is represented here (in Surabaya, Java) and in Canada.

Scanwell didn’t want to ship our customers products without wood crates but the customer (and we) insisted and they did it.

The upside is that you avoid ISMP#15 fumigation charges and hassle. The container, by the way, still needs to be fumigated but only the standard (cheaper) fumigation.

The downside is that there is more risk of damage and loss to your goods.

Next, many products are not suitable for LCL simply because they’re fragile. I’ll explain. With LCL, your products are packed up here in Bali and delivered by truck and ferry to the international port of Surabaya (Bali only has a local port). They’re unloaded and then loaded into an outbound container. That container will not go directly to Canada but will probably be unloaded in Singapore or Korea or Taiwan then reloaded into another container bound for your port. The important part is that your shipment is handled a number of times and in Indonesia, most of that handling is done without forklift trucks or machinery – meaning the boxes or crates are pulled, dropped, bounced, shoved… you get the idea.

Certain products just won’t make it: terracotta, anything with glass, furniture items, and so on.

That doesn’t mean we say you cannot order and ship those items – it does mean we strongly recommend you don’t order them for LCL shipping and, more importantly, we cannot guarantee the safety of those items – in other words, if it arrives smashed up our usual guarantee will not stand. That said, of course, we would quality control and pack the shipment as best as we possibly can.

Which leads me to the final point: with LCL you’re being charged by the cubic meter but, to avoid damage, that generally means we have to pack more heavily than we would for an air or full container shipment – if you do include wood crates, it can mean that up to 40% of every cubic meter you’re paying for is just packing material rather than the products themselves.

Hopefully, at this point, I haven’t made you cross-eyed with information overload.

Here’s what I suggest: send us a ‘wish list’ of products you like. We’ll turn that into a draft invoice with a running estimate of volume. We’ll get back to you with our opinion (which you can always choose to ignore) as to what you should not ship by LCL. We’ll also get you a quote from our usual shipper and make contact with Scanwell to see if they can reproduce the no crate shipping deal we had with our last customer.

Morning,

Sean

Destination :  Barcelona	Cost per Cube	Cost on 2.5 Cubes
Ocean Freight	70.00	175.00
Trucking	11.33	28.33
Handling	12.00	30.00
Standard Packing	13.00	32.50
Wood Crate Packing	40.00	100.00
Fumigation Ispm#15 1-5 Cbm	100.00	100.00
Labelling For Ispm#15 1-10 Crate	46.67	46.67
Document & Courier	55.00	55.00
Bill Of Lading	10.00	10.00
Custom Clearance	30.00	30.00
Absormatic Small — @Piece	3.00	6.00
TOTAL	391.00	613.50

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DESTINATION : BOSTON, MA, USA	COST PER CUBE	COST PER 4 CUBES
OCEAN FREIGHT	115.00	460.00
DDC	31.00	124.00
AMS	25.00	25.00
TRUCKING	11.33	45.32
PACKING STANDARD	16.00	64.00
PACKING W/ WOOD CRATE	40.00	160.00
HANDLING	12.00	48.00
DOCUMENT	25.00	25.00
BILL OF LADING	10.00	10.00
CUSTOM CLEARANCE	30.00	30.00
COURIER	30.00	30.00
FUMIGATION ISPM #15 (1-5 CBM)	100.00	100.00
LABELLING FOR ISPM#15 1-10 CRATE	46.67	46.67
ABSORMATIC	3.50	14.00
TOTAL	495.50	1,181.99

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