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If you are planning on expanding your business; trading globally, or you may be an entrepreneur newly venturing into international trade, but don’t have the capacity to stock inventory.
Cross Trade Shipping allows you to trade from the comfort of your home or office, locally, without requiring inventory, because we undertake to manage all the groundwork and coordination necessary, to enable the country of origin to ship directly to your client’s destination. Thus, we empower you with a single point of contact for your business.
It lowers costs, reduces transit time, and maximizes efficiency while greatly simplifying the global supply chain.
A cross trade is a shipment organised between two countries – none of which the seller is locally based in. They’re also known as foreign-to-foreign shipments, third party shipments or – more commonly – triangle shipments.
Think about it this way: you’re selling a product to someone in Japan, but your product is manufactured in China. A cross trade transaction involves shipping your product directly from China to Japan.
There are many reasons businesses use cross trades – all of which can end up saving money in the long-term.
1. Contact us, and provide with details of the goods, the manufacturer and the buyer. Also let us know the size of your consignment and if you’d prefer to ship the goods by sea or air.
2. CCKonnect will then give a quote of how much this is going to cost. If you’re happy with the quote, you’re good to go.
3. We will then liaise with all overseas agents and make all the bookings to co-ordinate the shipment. All documents will be centralised through us.
Cross trades, in particular, can be complex. Your forwarder will be able to identify rules between the different countries and how they affect your cargo.
Make sure you tell your forwarder if you want your shipping to be neutral. This means we will withhold all the details of your manufacturer from your buyer (thereby stopping your buyer from contacting the manufacturer directly to purchase the product).
Consider an adequate marine insurance policy. You don’t want to sell your product, only to discover that something on the ship has gone wrong (loss or damage) and you have no insurance to cover it!
Understand the benefits of any applicable free trade agreements. If there’s an agreement between the country of origin and the destination country, use it to your advantage!
Remember there will be three freight forwarding parties involved all co-ordinated through your one contact (namely, CCKonnect)