Less-than-container load

Dachser launches expedited China-US LCL service to cut through congestion

Dachser has launched an expedited China-US less-than-containerload (LCL) service to help shippers cope with the chronic congestion at west coast ports.
Demand for LCL has been on the rise since the start of the Covid crisis, with shippers and forwarders hoping to avoid premium airfreight rates, or simply find space in a market increasingly devoid of containers.
Dachser has combined LCL cargo with priority unloading, to reduce average container dwell times at …

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As digitisation improves visibility, LCL is becoming more attractive to shippers

The shortage of containers in major tradelanes is driving demand for less-than-containerload (LCL) solutions.
With boxes only available at exorbitant rates, more shippers and forwarders are more open to less-straightforward alternatives to full container offerings.
“Demand is up,” confirmed Graham Cousins, chief strategy officer of Vanguard Logistics Services. “A lot is driven by shippers’ need for flexibility to find a solution to move their cargo.”
And when container rates are high, many...

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Covid, costly airfreight and box shortages pushing forwarders to LCL options

Sky-high airfreight rates and the global container shortage are driving demand for less-than-container load (LCL) shipping services.
Jan Philipp Harnisch, global COO and Far East Asia CEO at Rhenus Logistics, says the Covid-crisis has also accelerated some logistics trends, including the need for more flexible shipping options.
“With air travel far less frequent and reaching record-high prices, as well as stock quantities fluctuating, LCL gives our clients the flexibility to fill up …

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Dachser expands South China footprint as new services take off

Dachser has expanded its South China operations by launching weekly charter flights from Hong Kong to Frankfurt and opening an office in Shenzhen.
The new premises in Shenzhen are in the Qianhai Special Economic Zone, increasingly home to hi-tech industries as traditional low-cost manufacturing in the Pearl River Delta is pushed out to the west.
Kevin Chen, Dachser’s MD air and sea logistics Far East south, said: “Thanks to government initiatives, there …

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Priority ocean services on the rise as air freight capacity becomes scarce

Soaring airfreight rates have left some commodities on the ground, but expedited ocean services offer an alternative.
To offer a faster maritime link across the Pacific, less-than-container load (LCL) consolidator ECU Worldwide launched an LCL express service between Shanghai and Los Angeles towards the end of last month.
Its Xlerate offering uses Matson Navigation for a 10-day transit between the two ports and ECU claims this is the fastest port-to-port time on …

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Flexport offers LCL shippers the FCL treatment, with OceanMatch service

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”.
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State port group unveils grand ambitions for MCC Qianhai at Shenzhen

State-owned port group China Merchants has launched an initiative in Shenzhen to boost consolidation and transhipment volumes.
In a bid to break Singapore and Hong Kong’s stranglehold on international transhipment and consolidated imports into China, the terminal operator has teamed up with less-than-container-load (LCL) specialist FS International to create the Qianhai Multi-Country Consolidation platform (MCC Qianhai).
The platform connects China Merchants’ Shekou Container Terminals with a...

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