Shipping Information and Resources

Shipping

USPGI Critical Needs Sourcing has been organizing and managing shipping services for clients from all over the world for over 25 years. Our strategic partnerships with International airfreight carriers, Seaborne shipping companies, and selected customs brokers make the job of delivery as simple as possible for you and your company. We can work with you to handle all of your shipping needs if required.

For many clients, we provide labeling, packaging and stuffing monitoring services at the factories to ensure that the factories follow the client’s requests before the package and/or container is sealed and shipped to port. We work closely with our shipping partners, to make sure that each container is packaged and consolidated as requested by the client. This is particularly critical if there is a priority product list per order as we ensure that priority products do not become part of the back order.

If you would like USPGI to organize local handling and shipping for you please let us know. Below is some general information regarding shipping Internationally:

Destinations: Our partners, can ship to virtually every country in the world, including all major ports in North America, Europe, Australia, etc. We have strategic partnerships and have worked closely with our partners for years. We have designated warehouses for our client’s product storage, packaging, and stuffing.

Air Freight/Express: Air Freight and Air Express are available and a huge time saver. You should make this selection if your products need to arrive immediately.

Full Container Load (FCL): FCL shipments are available as 20ft containers (30 cubic meters), 40ft containers (60 cubic meters), and 40ft high cube containers (68 cubic meters). Full Container Load shipments are subject to considerably less handling fees and are unloaded at the final destination.

Less than Container Load (LCL): LCL shipments are shipped to Hong Kong, Singapore, or other consolidation port destinations where similar shipments are combined and then shipped to the final harbor.

Shipping Times (Day of Arrival): Shipping times vary from Port to Port, but generally, it is 4-6 weeks to Europe and North America and 2-4 weeks to Australia. For LCL shipments add on 2-3 days to these times.

Insurance & Additional Fees: Insurance is 2.5% of your invoice amount and insures the goods through arrival at the destination port. We recommend acquiring local insurance for any order upon arrival in the home country. Sourcing Indonesia can help arrange insurance within your home country if you are interested.

In regards to any additional fees, most countries assess some value-added tax or customs charge to imported items. In addition, some harbors assess charges and/or fees upon arrival of containers. Any such related charges are not included in our shipping charges. We are happy to obtain all information related to any import tax and/or harbor fees through our custom brokerage partnerships upon request.

Want to speak to us about your “Critical PPE Needs”? See “Meet the Team” for our direct contact information.