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Shippers will no longer be faced with the choice of booking either a full container load (FCL) or a less-than-container load (LCL), under a new service developed by digital-first freight forwarder Flexport.
The San Francisco-headquartered forwarder yesterday unveiled its OceanMatch service, which is described as a “data-informed ocean freight consolidation offering that identifies available container space on compatible shipments and matches them to save Flexport shippers time and money”.
Upon receiving shipment data at the point of quotation, the Flexport OceanMatch calculates ...
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NZ Fwder
March 31, 2019 at 10:07 pmHow does this work for in-bound Customs ? Here in NZ, as soon as you have two importers in a container, it cannot be unpacked at a general importers warehouse. it must be unpacked at Customs bonded CFS with all the high costs that go with LCL. It is considered an FAK, not FCL. 2, 3 or 10 shippers is OK with one consignee, but not the other way around. Would need a big law change here before this would work.