First of all, understand what is LCL, which means that the carrier (or agent) accepts the owner of the consignment quantity less than FCL, according to the nature of the goods and the destination of classification and sorting.

Collect a certain amount of goods to the same destination into a container.

It is called LCL because the goods in one container are put together by different owners.

It is very easy to make mistakes in LCL, because if one of the goods is wrong, it will be affected

What should I pay attention to for LCL?

1, generally can't accept LCL cargo to specify a particular shipping company, shipping company only accept the whole container cargo booking, rather than directly accept LCL cargo booking, it is only through freight forwarders (individual strength of ship company) through its logistics company will spell the LCL cargo to the shipping company booking space, almost all of the LCL shipment is through the forwarder company "do, centralization distribution" to realize the transportation, LCL feeder port in east China basically for Shanghai.

General freight forwarders due to the limitation of the supply of goods, can only focus on a few shipping companies to book space, rarely meet the needs of the designated shipping company, so in the clinch LCL goods, try not to accept the designated shipping company, so as not to meet the requirements when handling consignment.

2. When negotiating and concluding a deal with the customer, special attention should be paid to the relevant transport terms, so as to avoid the other party's finding that the transport terms cannot be satisfied when handling the consignment after the letter of credit is issued.

We often meet in daily operation L/C rules do not accept LCL cargo transport freight forwarders bill of lading, directly from a ship company does not accept LCL cargo booking, ocean bills of lading ship company is out to freight forwarders, and by the forwarder to issue HOUSE B/L to shipper, if L/C shall not accept freight forwarders B/L, so deal with the actual transportation when there is no choice, will cause the discrepancy of L/C.

3. Due to insufficient supply of goods and high cost of LCL in some ports, LCL forwarder adopts the minimum charge standard for goods with less cargo volume. If the minimum charge is 2 freight tons, that is, less than 2 freight tons, it shall be priced and charged by 2 freight tons.

Accordingly to cargo quantity is lesser, the goods of port slant should consider a few such factors more when clinking a deal, lest be passive in the future.

4. The local customs will focus on the inspection of commodities that are sensitive and protected by trademark property rights.

5. For some routes and ports are remote, and customers want to deliver LCL goods to inland points, it is better to consult first before signing the contract, and confirm that there are shipping companies and freight forwarding companies that can undertake the delivery and related costs of these remote ports and inland points before signing the contract.

6. The charging ton of LCL should be accurate.

Before LCL goods are delivered, the factory should be required to measure the weight and size of the goods as accurately as possible. When the goods are delivered to the warehouse designated by the forwarder, the warehouse will generally re-measure the goods and charge for the re-measured size and weight.

If the factory changes the packaging, it should ask the factory to inform in time. Don't wait for the goods to be delivered to the forwarder's warehouse, and feed back the information through the forwarder. Often time is already very tight, and then change the customs declaration, it is easy to delay the customs declaration, or incur urgent customs declaration fees and port flushing fees.

The above is when do LCL each foreign trade clerk must be clear about what to do, in addition to the international shipping container, shipping customs clearance can consult huiyue logistics