Category Archives: freight services

Jun 10 2011

Economy Of How Much?

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Consumers and businesses are flocking to the internet to shop around for the lowest prices, international shipping service is no exception!

Economy Impacting Shipping Industry:

Consumers are being squeezed hard these days, spending is being cut, inflation is up and cost of everything is going up! Fuel cost increases are affecting the transportation industry and forcing airliners and carriers to raise their rates to offset the rate hikes and drop in volume! Consumers are reacting to this phenomenon by limiting their International shipping to bare minimum and utilizing Ground transportation. Air Express Shipments have been reduced dramatically. Consumers are using email and PDF files to share documents almost instantly and they have almost no need for the Post Office or Overnight shipping.

Shipping Quote: How Much?

Consumers and businesses are using the internet to shop around! Don’t count on customer loyalty factor here. It is all about How much? Cost concerns are driving Shipping Quote request volume to historic levels. Everyone is looking for the same thing: Low prices! Shipping companies are realizing that answering these quote requests is big time-wasting exercise. Often, shipping companies will spend time and resources to get the customer a quote but 90% of the time, customers are just shopping around for lowest price or trying to get a written quote to force other vendors to lower their shipping quote. Customers often play shipping companies against its other.

Shipping companies cannot afford to pursue these leads anymore, they are time-consuming and they often do not generate revenue for them. When they do, the margins are so low that the shipping companies lose money in long run. Often consumers won’t bother giving accurate dimensions or weight to calculate the shipping rate, “Just tell me how much will it cost to ship a medium box to Africa?” Shipping companies can not just pick a number and hope for the best, shipping quotes MUST be accurate or close to it if you want to end up with a happy customer.

To compute a shipping quote, customers need to provide:

  • Destination Information: City, State, Country
  • Size of shipment Length, Height, Width
  • Weight of shipment.
  • Content of shipment: Make sure it is allowed by international standards.
  • Value: Insurance and Tax values.
  • Preferred method of shipping: Ground, freight or Express
  • Packaging.

At Neighborhood Parcel, we take quote requests seriously and we do our part in providing accurate quotes within 48 Hrs whenever possible. However there are occasions where we do not answer quotes, here are few examples:

  • Incomplete Requests.
  • Prohibited commodities.
  • Shipping to restricted areas.
  • Inaccurate Data.
  • Bogus requests.
  • Complex logistics.
  • Low Margin projects.
Dec 3 2010

International Household Moving

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When planning an international move there are many things to take under consideration. Customers want to make sure they are dealing with FMC licensed shipping companies. All shipping companies must be licensed by the Federal Maritime Commission in order to handle your cargo or issue a BOL (Bill of Lading). Our international shipping service can meet and exceed all your expectations. We can help you package and ship your Household goods safely in containers, crates or Corrugated cardboard boxes.

Packaging & Loading:

If you are interested in an all inclusive door to door service or even a door to port service we can provide you with full packing and loading service of your household goods. We are an International shipping service provider with a wide network of agents who handle packing, loading and provide professional packing material for any case. From Crates for your artwork to strong boxes for your clothes and furniture. Neighborhood Parcel provides all sorts professional packing, pallets, lift vans or crates for fragile or heavy items. All shipment will be safely placed into your own or consolidated container for international and domestic shipping.

Less than Container Loads:

LCL or “Less than Container Load”. This term is commonly used to describe a Ocean freight service that designed for shipping boxed, crated or pallet’s cargo from or to the USA that cannot fill an entire 20 or 40 foot Ocean freight container. In this case your Household good will be loaded into a container with other LTL shipments. Don’t worry, it will be clearly marked so your household items won’t be lost or mixed with other.There are many advantages of  LCL Ocean freight service vs. using FCL (full container load):

Low Shipping Cost:

  • When you share a 40 OR 20 foot  freight container with one or more Customers that import or export goods to or from the USA. You pay only for the space used but not for a whole sea freight container.
  • As a rule the transit time will be the same as if you would ship a full container and most likely it will be faster if you use a service from an International moving company.
  • Typically the LCL ocean freight rates are calculated is by cubic space volume (per cubic meter/cubic foot) and not by weight.

For a Free Shipping Quote Or Call (978) 851-0199

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