Hanging basket and outdoor furniture, Express or Air freight?

Key words: Bulk cargo  Loose cargo Air Freight  Express

Hanging basket and outdoor furniture are kinds of leisure furniture, very popular in Europe, North America, Australia, Southeast Asia etc. Chinese seller, supplier and overseas importers, buyers often have samples express from China before formal order. However, for example hanging basekt, hanger rod long size and it is bulk cargo for air freight. Such air freight cost is far beyond cargo its value. How to ship hanging basket safely and economically?

What are difficulties and pain points for hanging basket air freight?

1. Height limit and over length surcharge. Hanger rod usually is a little high, up to 196cm from below reference photo. Due air craft door size limitation, there are certain requirements for package size in it. If by international express (Fedex, UPS express, DHL, TNT, etc.), this size will usually led to extra-long surcharge or oversize surcharge.


2. Nude package and conical shapes are unacceptable. Hanging baskets are simply wrapped more often at the factory (as shown below). It requires different goods assembled first in air shipping, so nude packages are generally unaccepted. At the same time, conical baskets are easily affected by compression and deformation.

3. High epxress delivery cost. Still as this sample, volume is about 1.8~2.3m3 (according to maximum size of each side). By express (courier) in door to door service, express cost will be expensive.

Haning basket air freight--How can be more economic?

1. Make wooden boxes. It is recommended to make wooden boxes or wooden frames for nude package, which is easier accepted by airlines and can better protect quality. If factory can't make it by itself, it can be sent to air freight forwarder warehouse to do with not much cost. Most of cartons are produced according to customization, generally difficult to find a suitable carton, it is more suitable to make wooden packaging.

2. "Air Freight+Delivery" mode. Afterwards freight forwarder arranges air freight to destination airport, and chooses whether to let it make import customs clearance and delivery to consignee (referred to as "Air freight + delivery" mode) according to incoterms. If around  2m3 in above sample it’s more economical, total cost in door to door service will be about 20% lower than than international express delivery. What’s more, there are no extra-long surcharges and over-size surcharges. It’s very skilled operated by professional air freight forwarding long time. Welcome query for more bulky and large cargo air freight.

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Attention choice for aircraft type. As above example wooden box size is about 196cm*105 *90cm, it needs wide body aircraft in all routines. If one of flight is a narrow body aircraft, due to its door is too small to load cargo into, it will affect air freight. So need to choose a suitable airline in advance before shipping.