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We are in constant contact with our customers who import from China, Malaysia and Vietnam in particular and thought it worthwhile sharing with you the latest news and trends regarding importing by container and importing by air from China
Chinese Public Holidays
It is important to know that China has two major extended public holidays. Chinese New Year, which is well known and occurs in the spring time. Then there is Golden Week,
Shipping From China
It’s a long way from China to the UK, 7775 km if you were able to go direct. However, most freight making the journey ends up in a container making the 30 / 40 day transit on the back of a container ship.
The routing the vessel takes has massive implications on the time taken to arrive to the UK along with the emissions produced.
The usual route heading through the Gulf of Aden and then using the Suez Canal as a way into the Med cuts out ten days sailing and around 9000 km,
Considerations When Importing PPE From china
It is becoming clear that there will be an ongoing need for all PPE products through most of this year and maybe beyond.
Whilst there is a big push on UK production of these items, with the vast need caused by the changing of PPE multiple times per day and the run-down of the UK’s manufacturing ability, it’s clearly obvious that there will be an ongoing requirement to import these items for the foreseeable future.
Air Freight From China Challenge
The Challenge was to simplify a customers’ supply chain that had grown without any focus on the planning of how orders are sent from China.
We find this often happens with companies that set up and then have rapidly expanded.
The company’s initial emphasis is quite rightly on sales and growing the business. It’s only when the growth curve settles a little and the business matures do minds turn to procedures and processes needed to make a business more efficient to facilitate the next phase of growth.
We are often asked about how to import from China to the UK?
As a freight company we think importing from China is straightforward, though of course we do this all day every day for a living!
Let’s assume you have found a profitable product to import from China, this may be from your own contacts or by visiting a trade fair, or you may even be importing from China to the UK sourcing from Alibaba.
