1. A 'LIVE LOAD' - means that international ocean freight shipping company's trucker will deliver an ocean freight container to your location and wait while you load, secure and seal the container for the international shipment. Free loading time may vary from one to two hours. If you will exceed the free time limit, then you pay $50-75+ per hour for each additional hour of loading time.
2. A 'DROP AND PICK' - means that international ocean freight shipping company's driver will deliver and leave the ocean freight container at your location for several days. Then the international shipping company will return to pick up the loaded, secured and sealed sea freight container to the international shipping company's container yard (CY) for the international shipment by sea.
In respect of calculation of total shipping cost of you international shipment by sea, the inland part of the shipping cost at origin with 'drop and pick' generally costs twice as much as with 'live load'. However, 'drop and pick' has the advantage that international shipper can take a time on loading and securing commodity in the sea freight container.
If you load a sea freight container near a seaport or an international ocean freight shipping company's container yard (CY), then cost of 'drop and pick' most likely will not be much higher than with 'live load'. That added shipping cost might worth of taking your time on loading and securing the ocean freight container. However, if you locate a good distance from the port or container yard, then it is possible that a 'live load' will be the only option available for your international ocean freight shipment.
3. 'IN A WAREHOUSE QUALITY LOADING' - (do not confuse with a service offered by international moving companies) means that shipper self-delivers loose cargo to an international ocean freight shipping company's warehouse or to a loading dock of company, which specializes in a quality loading of cargo into sea freight containers for international shipments by sea. Once goods are received and accepted by the shipping warehouse, it will be loaded and secured in the ocean freight container by the warehouse on shipper's behalf for additional cost. Then the sealed ocean freight container will be delivered it to the ocean carrier's Container Yard (CY) assigned for your international shipment.
The 'In a Warehouse Quality Loading' method is not always available. This freight service can be costly. However, it should be less expensive than using an international moving company's service. Plus the professional quality loading company warehouse should guarantee safety of cargo in the container during the international shipping. If the quality loading company locates near an international ocean freight carrier's container yard (CY) and has a permit to the ocean freight carrier's CY, then with this method you may save on shipping cost of inland pre-carriage's part of your international shipment as well.
Note: This topic is not intended to discuss packages of services offered by international moving companies on international ocean freight shipping in multimodal sea freight containers. Information on services offered by international moving companies is widely available on the Web.
ATTENTION TO CARS SHIPPERS! International shipping of cars and other smaller motor vehicles (such as shipping motorcycles, small boats on trailers, jets etc) in seafreight containers is the priority of quality loading warehouses. As soon as motor vehicles are delivered by an international shipper or a delivery trucker to the international shipping loading dock along with its original titles, the quality loading warehouse will pick up an empty seafreight container from an assigned international shipping company container yard (CY) to be prepared to the load.
However, ANY MOTOR VEHICLES CAN NOT BE APPROVED TO THE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WITHOUT THE ORIGINAL TITLES VALIDATION BY CUSTOMS. Lack of validated title on just one vehicle loaded in an ocean freight container will lead to delay or rejection of departure of the entire seafreight container. It also may result to roll-over, storage charges and/or other penalties from Customs, seaport authorities, the international shipping company etc.
Besides of the quality loading of motor vehicles in the ocean freight container, as a rule, validation of titles with Customs is the job of quality loading warehouses. The international shipping dock staff should validate original titles of internationally shipping motor vehicles with Customs in order to approve the loaded container to the international shipping. Then validated (stamped) by Customs titles will be returned to the international shipper or (by request) to consignee.
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