Today, let’s
discuss about shipping by air, by sea, and by land for guitars.
(1) By
air: including air transportation and International Express.
When we usually say “ air transportation”,
it usually means the shipping from airport to airport by plane. The supplier
needs to send the goods to the airport and do export customs clearance. Also,
the consignee needs to do the importing customs clearance and pick up the goods
from airport.
International Express, usually means transportation
by FEDEX, DHL, TNT, UPS, EMS, etc.
It is door to door shipping. The express will assist the consignee to do the import customs release. Of course, the consignee needs to pay for the importing tax. As the guitars are very large volume, transportation by air is usually not worth the cost.For the plywood guitars, the shipping cost is much higher than the guitar. This method is usually for sending samples or for the high end expensive models. For ukuleles and some accessories, the cost looks acceptable.
(2) By
sea: as all we know, sea shipping is slow and cheap. But sea shipping is not suitable
for small volumes. There is fixed cost for sea shipping in each shipment, such
as harbor cost, customs clearance cost. If small volume, each pc of guitar will
share very high cost.
(3) By
land: including by truck and by train.
By truck: The countries boarder on China
such as Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand have the truck route. Gz Hansi Musical Instruments Co.,Limited can
offer door to door shipping to most of the Southeast Asian countries. We can
get good shipping price from the shipping agent with the volume over one CBM.
By train: Now the International train shipment covers about 25 countries in Europe.Train shipping is good for small volumes like a couple of CBMS.