What Is Partial Shipping?

Partially shipping permitted dimension for all the times is the cubic meter and sometimes it may differ depending on the service that you use. This means that you can choose the exact size of Partial Shipping you need.

Pallet

For example, let us assume that we want to ship our pallets of wood furniture from the United Kingdom to our customers in the United States. The pallet itself consists of seven stacks of boards with ten planks per stack. When shipping this quantity of goods using standard shipping methods, it will take almost nine months for the shipment to make it to its destination. However, if we use a partly shipping service, it will take just over three months. This is because of a few factors like different routes, the difference in the packing material, and of course the curved line in the packaging.

Flat freight charge

Let us take these two examples one at a time. First, let’s look at the second scenario. If we are shipping using standard freight class, then we will most likely incur a flat freight charge of approximately twenty dollars per shipment. However, if we use the partially-sorted shipments in the freight class, then it will only cost us ten dollars per shipment. So in this case, the slight cost difference is actually profit for our company.

Benefit from using partial shipping

So how do we benefit from using partial shipping? There are several different ways. For example, when we ship a single order for a lot of pallets of merchandise, then we can have multiple shipments going to our customers at a cheaper price. So the overall cost to our company can be decreased since there will be just one shipment instead of multiple.

Single product

Also, if we want to send out various items of a single product, then the freight costs can become very high. So in this situation, we can benefit by using partial shipping. This will save our company lots of money, since we will only be paying for the actual weight of the item, not for the weight of various items that were shipped individually. In the United Kingdom, these types of partial shipments are referred to as carrier-class.

Larger carriers

But what if we want to send out a single product, but we want to do it in bulk? In that case, we still would need to use partial shipping since we would still be paying just the flat freight charge for the number of units. But what if we want to send out many different products in bulk? Then we definitely need to look into shipping multiple orders using partial shipments. So in this situation, we would have to ship the products using larger carriers like the ocean freight. The cost of these large carriers will definitely be lower than the flat freight charge.

Different warehouses

However, if we want to place many different shipments in a single order, then we should probably think about getting multi-shipments. This means that when we place a single order using a broker, then we can place different shipments all through that same broker and place them in different warehouses. So if we have a lot of different products to ship out, then we could place all of them in the same warehouses and avoid having to pay separate freight charges for each of them. Although this method will increase our costs, it will still lower our overall shipping costs since the freight charges will be the same for all of the shipments.

Request to the carrier

In those situations, then we will need to send out a request to the carrier requesting a partial shipment and if the carrier will be able to accommodate us, then we can get the whole partial shipment at no extra charge. In those cases, you will not be charged for logistics and the entire partial shipment.