Handle Express Freight shipments Since 2009
The express Shipping process from China can be a daunting task if you don’t know what to expect.There are many different Options for shipping,and each one has their own advantages in terms of speed as well as cost!At this Page, you will know everything about Express Freight. After read this information. You will know when and how to choose Express Freight.
What is Express Freight?
Express Freight is a service that provides delivery of your package as quickly and efficiently without compromising on quality. It’s fast, reliable & affordable way to ship items from one place to another place by By Air, it is a very efficiency shipping method. If your Shipments with high require for Shipping time. Then Express freight is the best Choice.
Express Freight shipping method including DHL/UPS/FEDEX/TNT and SF Express.
When and how to choose them? What is the difference between them? Please follow me to read below information:
What is DHL/UPS/TNT/FEDEX express freight?
DHL/UPS/FEDEX/TNT are four Main Express Freight company. They can arrange products from place A to Place B very fast by Air Plane.
Express Freight is a Door to Door Shipping method, So if you don’t want to pick up goods at the airport or Sea Port, but want the carrier send goods to your door after paying to them. Then EXPRESS freight is good way for Choose.
How many kinds of Express Freight methods can our DFH provide for you?
As told above, Our DFH is the Agency for DHL/UPS/TNT/FEDEX, so there are at least 4 methods of Express freight we can provide for your Choice.Besides that, SF express freight is very popular at some countries like USA and some Asia Countries. Shipping from China to USA and some Asia countries by SF express is also a good choice.
What documents need to provide for Express ship methods?
In order to make the shipments going very smoothly and without any delay, Documents needed for Express Freight including:
1.Proforma Invoice
2.Commercial Invoice
3.Packing list.
4.Certificate of Origin (Some products need, some no.)
5.Transport Insurance(This depends on yourself want to buy insurance for your goods or not)
6. Delivery order
What is the shipping time for Express Freight?
Shipping time from China to oversea by Express freight is much faster than container shipping. Express time depends on the destination country location and also the 4 main carrier company you use.
The right form is a reference shipping time for us to handle Express freight from ShenZhen China to different countries for your reference.
| North America | Asia | Europe | Australia | Africa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DHL | 3-4days | 2-3days | 3-4days | 3-4days | 4-5days |
| DHL | 5-7days | 3-4days | 5-7days | 5-7days | 5-7days |
| UPS | 3-4days | 2-3days | 3-4days | 3-4days | 4-5days |
| UPS | 5-7days | 3-4days | 5-7days | 5-7days | 5-7days |
| FEDEX | 3-4days | 2-3days | 3-4days | 3-4days | 4-5days |
| FEDEX | 5-7days | 3-4days | 5-7days | 5-7days | 5-7days |
| TNT | 3-4days | 2-3days | 3-4days | 3-4days | 4-5days |
| TNT | 5-7days | 3-4days | 5-7days | 5-7days | 5-7days |
What goods can be shipped
by EXPRESS Freight?
Most goods can be shipped by Express freight from China to Other countries.Express Freight is a great way for businesses with heavy and bulky shipments to get them delivered on time. You can send most type of good, no matter it is big or small – all you need are special boxes that will fit in our shipping airplane!
While my years’ experience in international Logistics shipping, One method to help you confirm if goods can be shipped from China can Checking at the Famous Chinese B2B platform like Alibaba and Made-in-China. If goods can be found from that platforms then can be shipped by railway from China. Contact us directly to confirm the shipping cost for your products.
What goods can not be
shipped by Express Freight?
For international shipping, we said most goods can be handled by express freight. While “Most” does not means all. So there have some items that DHL/UPS/FEDEX/TNT all don’t accept items, So if you import from China, should consider this point first, then will not influence your business.
The following articles are prohibited to ship from china to all countries by Express Freight:
1. Ammunition
2. Bank bills, notes, or currency (other than coins)
3. Corpses cremated or disinterred remains
4. Fireworks
5. Hazardous waste
6. Ivory
7. Marijuana, including marijuana intended for medicinal use
8. Postage stamps
9. Shark fins
10. Shipments prohibited by law
11. Watches exceeding the value of 500USD
What is the charge weight
calculate method for
EXPRESS freight?
The chargeable weight for EXPRESS freight is decided by Gross weight and Volumetric weight. Gross weight is the measured weight for each carton Then what is Volume Weight? The volume weight is calculated by the carton sizes.
For example, there are 10 cartons , each carton with 12KG, each carton size is 50cm* 60cm*40cm. Gross weight =10cartons*12kg/carton total Gross weight is 120KG for this shipment.
One Carton volume weight=50*60*40/5000=24kg
So total volume weight is 10cartons *24kg/carton =240KG
Now we know the final charge weight for this shipment is 240KG.
While there also some special packing size and gross weight cartons, for example, Some cartons gross weight bigger than its volume weight, some are volume weight bigger than its gross weight, Not matter what kinds of size and gross weight, We can help you to calculate exactly the final charge weight. (Get the charge weight for my shipments now)
What you can get if choose our DFH EXPRESS freight services?
The advantages of our clients choosing our company to handle EXPRESS shipments can be listed in 12 points, Our standard clients cooperated with us for more than 8 years because of most of the below factors
1. You can get a FREE charge for warehousing.
Some of you maybe buy from different suppliers and want to ship together, but the finished time can not be the same for different suppliers, so if your china freight forwarder can provide your free warehousing services, that will be a good thing for you to import from China.
2. Customs Clean Supporting
We can help you to do China Export and destination Country Entry Customs declaration, no worry it is the first time for you to import from China, with our customs clean cooperation condition. You can easily import any products you want from China to any destination Country.
3. You Can get a Free charge Pick up Service
Any city within China’s mainland pick-up service is one of the best advantages of cooperating with our DFH. Since we have many years experience in this area, so we can get many discounts for many china domain express carrier companies, it will be much lower cost for us to pick up shipments for you than your suppliers send goods directly to our warehouse. What’s more, is that our pick-up service is free of charge. which can help you save much shipping costs.
4. You can get free charge buy shipping insurrance.
We recommend buying shipping insurrance for high commercial value shipments. It is not much money but can protect you once any accident happened during shipping. Lost or damaged during shipping happened not frequently, While Insurance is for protecting the whole process more safely. While if you let us help you to buy Insurance, it is very cheap price and we don’t charge handle fees for helping buy Insurance.
5. You can get a free Charge Repacking service
the service you know cost some materials like tapes and our workers time. While if only you cooperate with us, We do it free for you. For example, your suppliers use china Domestic express ship cartons to our warehouse, while after getting the cartons, we found the quality of cartons is not acceptable for international shipping. Or some cartons be damaged during China Domestic shipping. At this time, you need our service to Change new good quality cartons and tape them.
6. We keep the client’s information secretly
Some shipments from the china factory to your client’s door directly. While you don’t want to let suppliers know the final receiver information, at this time if you Hire us as your shipping agent, then we can help you Relabel Cartons under your requirements without let suppliers know any information about receivers. Which can help you keep the client’s information secret to keep you do long-term business.
7.We help to sort goods and ship as required
If you buy from many suppliers but want to ship together, then there needs to have a Free charge warehouse for your collect shipments and also need to have a reliable china freight forwarder for you to sort the items from different suppliers and then ship out as required. Our DFH provide this service for you. Just need to let us know the detail requirements will be OK and the service is Free of Charge.
8. Inspection service can be provided.
If you import from China and want a reliable freight forwarder to help you to check the goods, and provide needed documents, pictures, and videos before you pay the rest payment to suppliers. It is good for you to choose us to help you to do it. We have many clients have this requirement and so far we have good cooperated professional Inspection 3rd Party company. Important is we can get a good discount for you.
9. You can get great support from our Profesional team.
10. Shipping time Guarantee for all your express freight shipments
11. Competitive Express freight shipping rates for all your express freight shipments
12. We taking our clients ,you will not be cheated since we keen on long-term cooperation.
Want to know more about other free charge services of cooperating with our DFH team? Inquiry us right now, tell us what is your requirement for shipping?
FAQs about EXPRESS freight from China.
How can I place an order with DFH?
Please contact us at email info@deefreight.com or call directly +86 180 25361450 for arranging a pickup.
How can I check the status/location of my shipment?
No matter you choose DHL/FEDEX/TNT/UPS or SF express, we will provide you the tracking number after we send out the shipments, then you can tracking on line directly base on the tracking number we provided.Which can tracking whole the status of a shipment.
How can i check the transit time for my EXPRESS freight shipment
After getting our tracking number, you can tracking on line, there will show you a rough shipping time of a shipment, and will tell you the estimate arrive time for that shipment.
How can i check the express freight charge of the shipments?Because in the past my other china freight forwarder charged me extra fees for Remote address service fee.
We will check for you before you place the order to us. You can let our service to confirm with you before arrange shipment .
How Can i know whether my consignee’s address is available normal for service or not?
Our DDP shipping methods quotation including your import taxes ,will help you to arrange both sides customs declaration and they are to door delivery.DDU shipping methods quotation is to door delivery but not including taxes.
My shipment is 2kg in weight only. Why am I charged for 5kg?
There is an actual weight and a volumetric weight for each shipment. If the volumetric weight is higher than the gross weight, the freight charge will be calculated based on the volumetric weight. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), for shipments delivered by air, the volumetric weight is calculated by the formula: length×width×height (cm) ÷ 5,000 (cm³/kg).
Will you add the charge weight upon receiving the products?
We will be honest to take the weight and measure with logistics standard.we keen on long-term cooperation not one time. Meanwhile you can measure &weight the products after receive the goods to check charge weight.
How will you deal with the shipment if it fails to be delivered because the consignee is out-of-reach?
We will make re-delivery attempt or the consignee can follow the instruction of ‘Delivery Absence Notice’ to arrange free re-delivery. If delivery attempt fails again or the consignee cannot be contacted, we will notify and seek advice from the shipper.
Can you call and make an appointment with the consignee before delivery?
Normally we will arrange delivery directly to the delivery address. If there are special circumstances under which you need us to make appointment with the consignee before delivery, please make the request when place the order with us. We will try our best to meet your need.
How to make a shipment? Do we need to open account ?
No you don’t need to open account with us. First you can let your supplier ship goods to our warehouse. Upon we received we will confirm the weight,size,take pictures and quote the price to you.After all confirmed without any problem.then ship out to you.
Why does the courier unpack the shipments to check every time?
Express freight unpacks in order to check the content and quantity of the shipments, which is a responsible act not only to the customers, but also to ensure the safety and timely arrival of the shipments. As some commodities might do harm to other shipments during transportation, or transportation of some commodities is restricted by the government (e.g. explosive or inflammable goods). Under air transport regulations, customs authorities and airport security force will check on all air shipments. If restricted or prohibited items are found, customs authorities will detain or even destroy the shipments. Our act of checking aims to protect customers’ interest from avoidable troubles or lost.
Who is responsible for payment of Duties and Taxes?
The Payment of duties and taxes are typically the responsibility of the receiver.
I am sending a gift-Can i pay duties and taxes instead of the receiver?
Yes, you can choose or Door to door Duty and taxes prepaid method.That will be better for Express freight to meet your shipping requirement.
Do i need to Open a account if i choose DFH to arrange shipment for me by Express freight?
No, you no need to open an account with us, we will help you to arrange shipments first and then send you the shipping charge invoice together send you the tracking number. You pay based on getting the tracking number from us.
How Do i book a collection? Do i need to register first?
No you no need to register, just send us an email to info@deefreight.com and tell your supplier our DFH will be the shipping agent for your company, then we will cooperate with your supplier s to handle things step by step.
What if i don’t know the destination postcode?
If you don’t know the destination postcode, please check with the reciever or contact us directly. Incorrect postcodes can cause transit delays and may incur unnecessary charges.
Do you delivery to PO BOXES?
No, we are not able to delivery to PO Boxes. A full street address is required.
What are the maximum weight and size limits for a parcel?
There without limits for maximum weight and size for a parcel, while if the size is too bigger, there will have oversize or overweight charges, so we will have another method like air freight or ocean freight that can replace express freight to recommend for your shipments. Just don’t hesitate to inquire us with detailed information about your shipments, then we can make the exact offer for each of your shipments.
Why Do i need to provide the weight and dimensions of my parcel?
The exact weight and dimensions are necessary to ensure the speed of delivery. If this information is not accurate, your parcel may be delayed in transit. We will not quote exactly, without the weight and dimensions we can’t calculate the final charge weight. then not good for us to recommend the best express freight methods for you.
Can i get money back if lost or damaged during shipping?
Yes we will pay you base on the international shipping conditions and return conditions. Besides that, you can buy insurance for your goods.then can get both payment back if so. But this seldom happen.
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