Practical guides on importing and sourcing from China to Bangladesh – covering freight, customs, suppliers, quality control and trade costs from the DE International team.
Almost all air cargo from China moves through a forwarder’s consolidation, not a direct airline booking. Here’s why, and the specific situations where booking direct actually pays off.
Trucks queueing outside your warehouse isn’t a space problem, it’s a scheduling problem. Here’s how a simple dock appointment system fixes it without new software.
VGM tells the carrier what a container actually weighs. Weight limits set the ceiling for what the box, the crane and the road can legally carry. Here’s what happens when cargo exceeds it.
Leafy greens lose more shelf life in the first few hours after harvest than in days of storage afterward. Here’s what field heat, humidity and ethylene mean for your supply chain.
Tea doesn’t need refrigeration the way fruit or fish does — it needs protection from humidity and container sweat. Here’s what actually damages a tea shipment in transit.
A declared weight on the air waybill is not verified until the airline reweighs it at origin. Here is why the numbers diverge, and what to check before accepting a higher invoice.
Dragon fruit is a cactus, not a tree fruit, and it chills injures at temperatures that are perfectly safe for mango or papaya. Here is why treating it like a typical tropical fruit damages it.
Refrigerant pre-charge, volumetric weight, and compressor handling make HVAC one of the trickier equipment categories to ship. Here is what a door-to-door arrangement needs to manage specifically.
The rent figure and lease term are the two terms least likely to cause a problem later. Here are the clauses in a Bangladeshi warehouse lease that actually create risk once something goes wrong.
Strawberries have no protective rind and do not ripen after picking, which makes them less forgiving of cold chain mistakes than almost any other fruit grown or imported in Bangladesh.