Welcome to our website. We specialize in door-to-door shipping from China to the UK. Whether you're shipping commercial cargo, pallets, or full container loads, Senghor Logistics' experienced team can manage the entire logistics process from pickup at your Chinese supplier to final delivery in the UK. We'll introduce our services, share case studies, and provide you with essential information about the shipping service.
What Is Door to Door Shipping?
Door to door shipping means the freight forwarder handles the complete shipping process from the supplier's warehouse in China to the consignee's address in the UK.
This service normally includes:
Cargo pickup from Chinese suppliers;
Warehouse storage and cargo consolidation;
Export customs declaration in China;
International transportation by sea freight, air freight or rail freight;
UK customs clearance;
Import duty and VAT handling;
Final delivery to your warehouse, office, or Amazon FBA warehouse.
What Do We Offer
1.Full-Chain Coverage
Pickup and packaging:
We pick up your goods from your supplier in China, ensuring secure packaging (custom wooden crates or pallet packaging services are available).
Export customs declaration:
We handle all documentation and formalities to ensure your goods clear Chinese customs smoothly. This includes reviewing supplier documents, declaring the goods, and ensuring all items comply with Chinese export regulations.
Shipping options:
We offer three main ways to ship door to door from China to the UK. Choose the one that fits your budget, timeline, and cargo type.
(1)Sea Freight (LCL & FCL): Best for large, heavy, or non-urgent cargo
LCL: Your goods share a container with others. You pay only for the space you use (per cubic meter).
FCL: You buy a whole 20ft or 40ft container.
Typical shipping time: 25 to 40 days for door to door (from pickup to UK delivery).
Characteristics: Cheapest option per kg/CBM, but slowest.
(2)Air Freight: Best suited for small volumes, urgent, or high-value shipments.
Shipping time: 3 to 8 days door-to-door.
Minimum charge: Approximately 100 kg.
Faster than sea freight, but costs 2-5 times more. (depending on the situation)
Ideal for medical products, spare parts, electronics, or products with strict time requirements.
(3)Rail transport: Suitable for medium to large sized goods (that can fit into containers), with strict time requirements but also a focus on cost.
Rail transport is a compromise between sea and air freight. It's faster than sea freight but cheaper than air freight.
Shipping time: Door-to-door 20 to 28 days.
Route: China(Xi'an, Chengdu, Yiwu) → Kazakhstan → Russia → Belarus → Poland → Germany → UK (via rail to a European hub, then by truck to the UK)
You can choose LCL or FCL shipping.
Typical goods: Clothing, machine parts, auto parts, e-commerce inventory.
Cost: Approximately 1.5 to 2 times more expensive than sea freight, but 20% to 30% cheaper than air freight.
Stability: Less affected by port congestion, weather, and strikes, especially now that Red Sea transport is disrupted and many container ships are detouring around the Cape of Good Hope, resulting in longer transit times and increased freight costs.
Note: While there is rail freight to the UK, it is not as common as sea freight. Please check space availability in advance.
Import customs clearance:
Once your container cargo arrives at the destination port, our destination port agent will handle UK import clearance, saving you time and effort. If you require DDP shipping from China to the UK, in addition to import clearance, we also handle import duties and VAT payments.
Final address delivery:
The final step in door-to-door delivery is delivery to your designated address. You simply wait for the goods to arrive.
2.Warehousing and Consolidation
If you require warehousing solutions, we provide warehousing services in China. Senghor Logistics has professional warehouses near Yantian Port in Shenzhen, offering long and short-term warehousing, labeling, palletizing, and other services. We also have partner warehouses in other ports in China (Guangzhou, Ningbo, etc.) for warehousing and consolidation. Our facilities are safe, reliable, and fully equipped, staffed with professional forklift operators and container loading personnel to ensure the safe storage of your goods until they are ready for shipment.
Our cargo consolidation service is also favored by many customers. We can collect goods from different factories and consolidate all goods into one shipment. This results in lower costs, more convenient inventory management, and higher container utilization, saving clients time, effort, and money.
3.Customized Solutions and Industry Forecast
If you have other needs, such as temperature-controlled transportation for medical products, please tell us the required temperature, and we will arrange it for you. Whether you are a large enterprise importer or a small or medium-sized shipper, we have corresponding transportation solutions for you.
At the same time, we provide you with the latest industry information. With the current volatile international situation, ships being forced to reroute, and fuel prices rising, importers urgently need reliable logistics and freight rate information. Being within the logistics industry and connected with shipping companies, airlines, and agents, we have a better understanding of the latest business trends than our clients. We will provide our clients with valuable industry information to help them with budgeting and shipping plans.
Real Case Study: Shipping Clothing from Guangzhou to Liverpool
Mike has been a client of ours since 2018. His initial inquiry involved only a dozen boxes of clothing, requiring shipping from Guangzhou to Liverpool, UK.
Our logistics specialist offered him both sea and air freight options. For seasonal products like clothing, which require fast delivery, only air freight was feasible. Therefore, we specifically explained the necessary documents and precautions for air freight.
The client didn't make a decision immediately, but a week later, he contacted us saying the goods were ready but needed urgent transport, requiring delivery to Liverpool within 3 days.
Upon receiving this request, we immediately checked flights to LHR airport and coordinated with our UK agent for backend delivery.
Fortunately, the goods weren't ready on Thursday or Friday; otherwise, arriving over the weekend would have increased difficulties and costs. Therefore, we immediately provided a three-day delivery and budget solution, and ultimately, the goods were successfully delivered to Liverpool.
Because of this, our client was very impressed with our service, and their order volume continued to increase afterward.
FAQ
Q1: What goods can be shipped door to door from China to the UK?
A: Almost anything, as long as it's legal and not dangerous. Common items we move: furniture, home décor, lighting; electronics, auto parts, machinery; clothing, shoes, bags; toys, sporting goods, etc.
Special items (need special documents): batteries, liquids, cosmetics, powder. Ask us first.
Q2: How much does door to door shipping from China to the UK cost?
A: The cost mainly depends on three factors: the weight/volume of the goods, the mode of transport (sea or air), and the origin/destination. We offer free quotes-simply tell us your cargo details (goods name, volume, weight, dimensions), the Chinese supplier's pick-up address, the UK delivery address, and the cargo preparation time.
We will provide you with a clear and transparent price, with absolutely no hidden fees.
Q3: What if my supplier is in a small city like Chengdu or Zhengzhou?
A: We have partnered trucks in various cities across China. We can pick up goods from almost any address – even factories in remote areas. Remote areas may incur a small additional charge, but we will inform you in advance.
Senghor Logistics can ship from various ports in China, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, etc. We can also arrange barges from the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions to transport goods from inland areas to the port for loading onto larger vessels.
Q4: How long does door to door shipping take?
A: Sea freight: 25 to 40 days (cheapest option).
Air freight: 3 to 8 days (fastest).
Railway freight: 20 to 28 days (balanced cost-speed).
Q5: Is cargo insurance necessary?
A: Cargo insurance is recommended, especially for high-value or fragile products.
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