Riyadh to London

Door to door shipping from Riyadh to London

Among all expertise, Milky Way Logistics provides professional and bespoke solutions for all your door-to-door shipping enquiries from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to London, UK.

Door-to-door as it is self-explanatory, is the service that starts from the shipper’s door and ends by delivery at the consignee’s door.

In our door-to-door service, the shipper or consignee do not need to be an expert in logistics and transportation as an expert can take care of the whole process as their agent.

When moving goods, personal belonging or commercial goods globally, door to door shipping could be the most effective term in shipping as the freight forwarder takes care of the whole process from the shipper’s point up to the delivery point.

Process of door to door shipping

Upon the completion of any agreement for moving goods, and appointment of a freight forwarder, the goods will be collected from the shipper’s point by the freight forwarder and those would be moved to the forwarder’s depot.  Forwarder would be able to examine if the packing is appropriate for the chosen mode of transport. After controlling the packing requirements of International shipping, the forwarder will be able to book the transport option which could be booking space on a airplane or a space on a ship.

The departure will be schedule and based on that the formalities and documentation and custom entry will be arranged for.

In terms of formalities and custom rules, there are important rules set up by the government that should be considered in any imports to the UK.

Documentation

Documentation depending on the mode of transport could vary up to some extent but there are some documents also that are similar for different shipments. As an instance, the contract of carriage for shipping via airfreight is the Airway Bill whereas for a sea freight shipping it is the Bill of Lading and for a road freight is a CMR which is the Consignment note that contains the terms and conditions of the shipping and transport liabilities.

Accepted Packings for door to door shipping from Riyadh to London

Milky Way Logistics recommends using proper packing for goods that are being shipped door to door from Riyadh to London considering the distance and mode of transport and handlings required. However, Standard packing of pallets and crates of certain height are accepted for airfreight and in addition, containerized goods are accepted for sea freight. For road haulage the preferred packing is pallets which are the best for handling, storage and shipping.

India from UK

Ship Containers to India from UK

Milky Way Logistics, a freight forwarder based in the City of London, provides bespoke professional solutions for Ship Containers to India from UK and vice versa.

Our bespoke solutions include but not limited to air freight, ocean freight, and express delivery, pallet shipping and containerized cargo.

There are many direct and indirect flights between London and major cities of India which are facilitating any shipment between India and UK via air freight.

This mode of transport is highly recommended for smaller consignments as well as high valued goods.

In order to keep the cargo safe and away from probable damages while in transit, there are specific requirements of packaging for shipping goods to India from UK or the other way via air freight.

The other most commonly used mode of transport for Ship Containers to India from UK is via ocean freight which is widely used for containerized goods as well as bulk shipments.

Since there are lots of import and export between the two countries, shipping between India and UK has been always on high demand.

Among all modes of transport, sea freight has been one most popular for trades between India and UK.

There are weekly shipping services between India and UK major ports from most of the major shipping lines.

Milky Way Logistics offers all forwarding solutions including but not limited to container and cargo handling, custom clearance, documentation and delivery.

Pallet Shipping from UK to Ireland

Milky Way Logistics provides first class freight solutions from UK to any destinations in the World including Ireland. If you are looking to move a consignment from UK to Ireland, please contact Milky Way Logistics for our best and most competitive rates.

The range of services offered by Milky Way Logistics are including but not limited to pallet shipping from UK to Ireland.

Milky Way Logistics has links to a diverse network of hauliers through which pallet shipping, dedicated services and same day deliveries are possible when it is time for shipments from UK to Ireland.

Dedicated Service for pallet shipping from UK to Ireland

Milky Way Logistics and its partner in the UK network of hauliers, assure the best and most competitive solutions for any shipments from UK to Ireland and guarantee the highest quality service at the lowest cost.

Pelleting service could also be provided for your loose commodities which makes your shipment more recognisable among the carriers while making it smoother for loading and unloading.

If you are looking for a specific delivery date and time, please enquire about our dedicated service which is guaranteed for the delivery and transit time.

If it is not a full load or time is not a barrier, then to be more cost effective; you may better off to have our part load solution which might not be as quick as the dedicated service but it would definitely be the most cost effective one as you will be sharing the vehicle with other customers and as a result the cost of freight would be divided among shipments and make all of them much more economical.

Trackable service

At Milky Way Logistics, we are not only monitoring the whole shipment from origin to its destination but also providing our customers a trackable reliable service that could be tracked and monitored during the journey.

Therefore whether you have only one light pallet or as many heavy ones, Milky Way Logistics has solutions for your consignment and it is worth contacting our experts today via our web site or by sending an email to [email protected] and providing some details of the shipment and to get support for your pallet shipping from UK to Ireland.

The Iranian Shipping Firm (IRISL) has announced dispatch of an Iranian flag containership to Europe for the first time after five years of sanctions. The ports of calls have not yet been disclosed but as per IRISL MD, Mr. Mohamad Saeidi, there are plans for the firm to initiate regular services from the PG to Latin America and East Asia and possibly North America (if sanctions are lifted by Canada, too). The Iranian shipping firm, has a capacity of 100,000 TEU with further developing plans of ordering thousands more, according to Alphaliner.

The first train of 32 containers from China called Tehran earlier this week to revive the historical Silk route. The journey of over 10,000 Kilometres from Yiwu in East China (through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), took 14 days which is around 30 days less than the sea freight from Shanghai to Bandar Abbas. The officials of both China and Iran disclosed that there are plans of setting up monthly rail freight service from China to Iran that could ultimately be continued through to Europe forming Tehran to a transit hub between the two regions. Following the economic slump of China, the economists assume Iran as the main target of China for their economic trade policy of One Belt, One Road.

As per Alphaliner, the French container shipping major CMA-CGM and the Chineses shipping major COSCO have been discussing to set up a new Mega alliance. There has also been talks of seeking possibilities to include the Evergreen and OOCL into the plan to from a powerful and secure alliance that could challenge the East–West trades and to isolate the alliance from the weaker partners within the current alliances, which could be facing financial distress.

As per BIMCO, the crude oil tanker market is predicted to develop robustly during 2016 c
onsidering the 4.3 per cent of increase in the projected fleet following the fast trend of orders during the last few months of 2015 (35 million DWT ordered). Seeing that most of the new tankers will be delivered during the second half of 2016 and considering a possible quiet trend in demolition activity, the market would appreciate higher rates. Nonetheless, with the considerable capacity of crude oil pouring into stockpile around the world, the high rate trend would be for a limited period.

BDI (the Baltic Dry Index) declined another 15 points on Thursday to hit its lowest (504 points) in about thirty years. The index is a number issued by the Baltic Exchange of London on a daily basis which is the estimation of cargo shipping price for dry bulk carriers. This year’s total decline is around 36 percent which is mainly account for the decline of shipping cost for commodities and failure in Chinese economic growth.

During the BCC event of November 3rd, John Holland-Kaye, the Chief Executive of Heathrow airport has announced the £ 180 million investment plan to improve and facilitate the cargo processing. The plan is to reduce the cargo processing time of current 8-9  hours to some 4 hours which is to halve the time while doubling the cargo capacity. This improvement in the cargo capacity and cargo processing time would include but not limited to additional truck parking facility and an specialist pharmaceutical storage area and an air to air transit facility to lessen connection times.