Want a quotation for a freight from China to Canada, and how to send goods from China to Canada 

I have been questioned many times about a quotation for the freight to Canada from China by customers from both Canada and China, actually I can not answer instantly as i have to know some factors before make a quotation to customers. every shipment assigning to a logistics company to move from a export country to import country do must to go through formal formalities. so its more useful to get an accurate quotation by given full cargo information. general info such as goods name, packed cubic meters, quantities, net and gross weight, are necessary to provide to an international logistics company. let see how its important the three key factors should be provided.

① Cubic Meter

Cubic meter is the goods packaging three sides length x width x heigh , unit is meter, once we got goods packaging cubic meters, we can calculate total CBM of the goods, and CBM is an acronym from “CuBic Meter” learn more details about cubic meter 

② Actual weight and volumetric weight

First we should distinguish actual weight and volumetric weight. Every physical goods has its actual weight, no matter sea shipping and air freight, its all would charge weight or cubic meter whichever bigger, 

for example. air freight normally charge based goods actual weight, if volumetric weight is bigger than actual weight, will charge whichever bigger. 

sea shipping normally charge based goods cubic meter, but every one CBM has its weight restriction, for example, if 1 cbm goods weight ≤ 500 kg, but the goods actual weight is 600 kg, the freight should count as 600 ➗ 500 = 1.2 CBM. so know how to calculate volumetric weight is to decide which shipping method for choice is economy way. 

volumetric weight calculate method is:  goods packaging three side （length x width x heigh） ÷ 6000, unit is centimeter. air freight normally charge actual weight and volumetric weight whichever bigger. remark: international courier charge goods packaging three side （length x width x heigh） ÷ 5000  

③ Goods name also must important factor we should know from customer, every body knows that the different cargo has different restriction for export and import, such as liquid, powder, battery, food stuffs, brand cargo, drug, and some importing predatory pricing cargos are the key concerns bond customs works. so as long as we know the goods name and SH code, we could check destination country’s import duty, tax, GST and restriction. 

When we have these three basic information from customers, we could draw a very optima freight methods to clients. if we offering an suggestive freight lead time for three shipping methods and also provide estimated cost, that our customer would make a very bright decision for their shipment. 

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