Service route: Wenzhou to Lyon;
Service mode: Door to door moving one-stop service;
Case Overview: Ms. Fan entrusted Hipu International to ship the furniture items from her home in Wenzhou to Lyon, France by sea.

Lyon is the second largest city in France, located between Paris and the Côte d'Azur, neighboring Switzerland and Italy. As a cosmopolitan city of moderate size, Lyon is the world's favorite destination for the French art of living. Thanks to its beautiful old neighborhoods that make it an ideal place for walking, its reputation as the gastronomic capital of France, and its high quality of life and renowned safety, Lyon, with its 2,000 years of sparkling history, attracts a large number of Global Migration clients.

International moving is a big event in life for many people, and a heart-saving and reassuring cross-country move means a great start to a new life in a foreign country. Ms. Fan, who lives in Wenzhou, was ready to move her family to Lyon, France after she got her French long term residence visa. There are many cross-country moving companies on the internet, Ms. Fan was dazzled by the selection, and finally, she chose Neptune International Movers under the recommendation of her friends.

Moving from Wenzhou to Lyon, Ms. Fan entrusted Xipu International to transport some personal belongings abroad by sea. Ms. Fan's personal belongings are more, all kinds of furniture, porcelain, photo albums, clothes, shoes, books, etc., all together the total volume of about 12 square, so she chose the way of shipping containers to Lyon, France. Sea freight consolidation is a very economical way for customers with less than 15 square meters of goods, specifically, renting a container with other customers. Because of the large number of items, Ms. Fan also asked us to make a pallet in the warehouse to put the items together to prevent loss.

Moving from China to overseas, if there are not many things, the staff of international moving companies will suggest customers to choose the way of consolidation, this way is more cost-effective, suitable for moving items less than a full container, moving budget is limited, and the timeliness of the requirements of the customer is not high. So the question is, is it reliable to choose consolidation for international moving?

First of all, what is ocean freight consolidation?

LCL (Less Than Container Load, LCL) maritime special terminology, refers to the carrier (or agent) to accept the owner of the consignment of the number of less than a full box of small ticket freight, according to the nature of the goods and the destination of the classification of the goods to go to the same destination of the goods, concentrated to a certain number of assembled into a box. Because of a box with different owners of the goods assembled together, so called ocean freight consolidation.

Consolidation in international moving, refers to a more special form of shipping, specifically, personal owned furniture, household goods, excess baggage, etc. less than a full box of small ticket personal items, through a more special customs clearance, and other owners of goods at the same time put together into a container, sea transportation to the destination country.

What are the benefits of consolidation?

First of all, you can save costs, a cabinet inside the general can be loaded with seven or eight owners of the goods, you can share the cost of the entire cabinet to each owner of the goods, and secondly, the consolidation of warehouse space is guaranteed very few cabinets, shipping companies and terminals will give priority to the protection of consolidation of cabinets, and thirdly, consolidation of bills of lading can be out very quickly, the general opening of the vessel can be signed out, and the whole container of the shipping company to pick up the need to open the vessel two working days to be signed out! And the date of departure, do not allow to sign. But the LCL compared to the whole container transportation, the time limit is relatively slow, you can choose as needed.