Logistics knowledge

Different goods will face various customes clearance procedures, let's take a look.

In addition to complying with the provisions on the transport of ordinary goods, the transport of special goods shall comply with other corresponding special requirements

Quota is one of the non-tariff barrier measures, which means that a government controls the import or export of some sensitive commodities in quantity or amount in a certain period of time.

Less Than Container Load (LCL) means that the carrier (or agent) to accept the shippment of the goods that is loaded less than a full Container.

Nowadays, most of goods are transported by container, regardless of the distance of the journey, the value of the goods. 　　

Logistics plays an increasing important role in our daily life and the whole industries. Today, we will go through the 7 functions of logistics system.

Container transport is a modern mode of transport in which containers are used as transport units to transport goods. It is suitable for ocean transport, railway transport, and international multimodal transport.

Scheduled routes refer to those that operate with fixed ships sailing on fixed dates and ports and at relatively fixed freight rates. Non-scheduled routes are selected temporarily according to the needs of freight transport.

The air waybill will show the consignee and consignor, airport of departure, destination, transportation route, description of cargo, weight and freight rate. The tariff category column often shows M, N, Q, C, S and other codes.

Bonded warehouses refer to warehouses set up with the approval of the Customs to store bonded goods and other goods that have not been cleared by the Customs.