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U.S. Sea freight Price Calculator
Shipping Boxes, Crates and Pallets (LCL)
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What's it for? | How does it work? | Involving a third-party | Request POD | Shipping Partial Cargo | Storage
No matter whether you buy or sell on the U.S. market. No matter where in the world you are. With this online freight calculator, you can manage relatively large e-commerce deliveries from the USA using economy LCL freight service at the convenience of your office, home, or even on the go.
As soon as you have a deal in your international trade, go to this online calculator and:
Click on the picture to watch a three-minute video on YouTube about how the online price calculator works.
This online calculator is designed to ship goods packed in boxes and crates from the USA abroad. If you ship goods in boxes, they can be appropriately palletized for international transportation at the ocean carrier terminal (CFS), obeying ISPM 15 regulations. You may watch this short YouTube video about utilizing the online cost calculator for remote orders and e-commerce.
Typically, U.S. merchants offer e-commerce order deliveries within the USA for a reasonable price or free of charge.
However, small and midsize U.S. businesses typically do not ship internationally. However, they are open to selling goods overseas and welcome U.S. freight forwarders to assist them in international deliveries to foreign buyers.
AMID Logistics is a U.S. freight forwarder.
What is more, AMID Logistics offers to utilize the online calculator, which makes it possible to independently plan to ship internationally and book international deliveries after all the preparatory work.
Please note that our primary business is LCL freight. LCL means shipping relatively large loads by sea from the USA, which are appropriately packed for international transportation in boxes, crates, or pallets. We are not involved in airfreight and do not ship motor vehicles.
Any international LCL shipment starts with delivering cargo to a sea carrier terminal in the USA. Such terminals are professionally called CFS (Container Freight Stations).
Before placing an order, you must reconfirm with a U.S. seller whether the purchase price includes delivery to a CFS within the U.S..
A. If Yes, the U.S. merchant DOES provide deliveries within the USA, then:
B. If Not, the merchant DOES NOT provide deliveries within the U.S., then:
C. USING A THIRD-PARTY - you or your seller in the U.S. use a third-party trucker to deliver orders to CFS:
All further shipping procedures will be as explained in this step-by-step guide.
*Please note that the most economical way to ship overseas is to directly deliver your order to an ocean carrier terminal (professionally called CFS—Container Freight Station). Our online calculator lists such terminals in uppercase, which are highlighted - for example, PHILADELPHIA, PA. We do not recommend selecting Line Haul terminals listed in lowercase with an asterisk (*) (Allentown, PA*, for example).
The cheapest CFSs should be on the U.S. East Coast - NEW YORK, NY, and the U.S. West Coast - LOS ANGELES, CA.
**VERY IMPORTANT! INVOLVING A THIRD-PARTY IN YOUR CARGO DELIVERY TO CFS.
If you or your merchant in the U.S. involves a U.S. trucking company to deliver your order to a terminal appointed in our instructions (i.e., you have selected the option NO PICKUP REQUIRED), then upon receipt of our email with shipping instructions, please pay extreme attention to the terminal address, the contact information, and:
Ensure that the LTL Bill of Lading or delivery order includes the ocean carrier booking number, which is the key reference number for recognizing your shipment at CFS. Do not confuse the booking number with AMID Logistics' internal customer reference number!
If you receive an LTL inland bill of lading, the number will already be on the bill of lading.
The OCEAN FREIGHT BOOKING NUMBER will recognize your order at CFS, and CFS will accept the load for international transportation from the USA to your destination country.
See where you can find the ocean CARRIER BOOKING NUMBER in the sample of our Dock Receipt:
If you use a third-party trucking company for your cargo delivery, such as FedEx Ground, UPS Freight, etc., always request a signature upon delivery. For example, always select the Signature Confirmation Option when submitting a delivery order. Then, you should be able to ask the trucking company for a formal POD (copy of Proof of Delivery with a signature). Online tracking does not consider POD.
The reason is that sometimes delivery drivers leave the load unattended at the gates of freight terminals without obtaining signatures on documents. As a result, drivers could leave the load at the wrong terminal or gate or deliver only part of the cargo.
If a shipper cannot provide a formal POD, then freight terminals may reject any claims and will not initiate an investigation on missing cargo.
Some of our new customers request that we accept several deliveries. They need to combine all the deliveries into one international shipment and ship it from the U.S. overseas under a single sea freight bill of lading.
For example, you remotely buy several smaller orders on Amazon. You must provide your Amazon merchants with an address in the USA where all the orders should be delivered. After that, you must combine all the orders at the address to deliver from the U.S. abroad.
Regarding LCL freight service, that means you want us to accept several U.S. domestic deliveries at a particular ocean carrier terminal (CFS, Container Freight Station) for consolidation into one single international LCL shipment.
Yes, we do that all the time. Such international shipments are called "shipping partial cargo." However, partial cargo is suitable for relatively sizable loads. Do not confuse shipping LCL partial cargo with consolidating small packages into boxes like MyUS.com, etc.
If partial cargo LCL fits your needs, you must know certain conditions and limitations.
PARTIAL SHIPMENTS MUST BE APPROVED IN ADVANCE!
Suppose you need to combine two or more orders' deliveries into one single shipment under the same ocean freight carrier's booking and our customer reference number. In that case, it must be booked in advance, approved by AMID Logistics, and:
If you comply with these conditions, please quote and book your partial shipment on our website by selecting LCL: Shipping boxes, crates, and pallets.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!: Partial shipments must be approved in advance. At the time of booking, in the COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS line at the bottom of our online booking form, or/and a prompt reply to our email to your LCL Booking Request, YOU MUST ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:
Also, please remember that shipping partially does not mean that CFSs will track, check out, and match the shipper's orders. Content checks in deliveries are NOT permitted.
CFSs should inform the shipper about each delivery by providing warehouse receipts using the same booking number. They should also provide pictures of each delivery on top of warehouse receipts when possible. Partial cargo means accepting loads under the same carrier booking number, storing, palletizing, and sending them to the destination under a single bill of lading upon the shipper's approval.
Please note that some international ocean carriers do not support partial deliveries. Once again, sending a partial shipment must be approved in advance!
If AMID Logistics did not approve a partial shipment before providing shipping instructions, then every load delivered to CFS will be processed as a single shipment.
Please contact us for more details regarding procedures for partial cargo.
With regular LCL shipments, each delivery to a CFS is booked under one unique AMID reference and the carrier's booking number. If all export paperwork is in order, the CFS will do its best to process deliveries and ship them out of the U.S. as soon as possible without any additional notice.
If, for some reason, your load is on hold at CFS, then Free Storage Time depends on CFS (sea freight carriers' terminals). CFSs with a short storage time do not support partial shipments. For example:
Saint George Logistics freight terminal in Los Angeles (LAX) DOES NOT SUPPORT PARTIAL CARGO due to minimal free storage time:
However, the Saint George Logistics freight terminal in New York (NY) may support partial cargo. As of 2022, the free stoppage is up to 21 days. You will be billed for storage on day 22 under all circumstances. The export storage rates will be invoiced as follows:
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