Our Mexico and India case studies show what we do on the hardest shipments. Most of our work looks nothing like either of them. It looks like this: a UK importer with no logistics presence of its own in China, buying steadily from a handful of Chinese suppliers, that simply needed one reliable China-side contact instead of several. The scenario below is representative of how that relationship typically develops, rather than an account of one specific shipment, and the customer is kept unnamed for that reason.
The challenge was coordination, not cargo. The customer imports regularly from Chinese suppliers but has no in-house logistics team in China, so every shipment meant separately chasing each factory for a cargo-ready date, separately confirming export paperwork, and separately booking ocean freight — three or four parallel conversations for what was, from the customer's side, one purchasing decision. The freight rate was never the problem. The coordination behind it was.
Transeasy became the customer's single China-side contact. We communicate directly with each Chinese supplier, in Chinese and in their working hours, on cargo-ready dates and packing requirements. We arrange factory pickup, lodge or check the export customs declaration for each shipment, coordinate the inland trucking to the loading port, and book the ocean freight to the UK on a schedule that matches the customer's stock plan rather than each factory's own convenience.
The result is one reliable China-side logistics contact managing recurring FCL shipments and any origin-side issues that come up, in place of separate coordination with several suppliers and forwarders in China. That is the ordinary version of what we do — the Mexico and India projects are what happens when the cargo itself gets complicated on top of it.
If your business buys regularly from more than one Chinese supplier and does not have its own China-side team, this is the kind of relationship we build. Send us your supplier list and a typical order, and we will show you what one shipment looks like against several.