We consolidate every supplier in your order into one shipment at our Yiwu warehouse, clear it for export, and put it on the route that fits your budget and your deadline.
Freight modes
The right answer is almost always decided by volume and deadline. Send us both and we will price the realistic options rather than the most expensive one.
A container that holds your goods and nothing else, sealed at our warehouse and opened at yours. Below roughly 15 CBM it is usually cheaper to ship LCL; above it, FCL wins on price per cubic metre and on handling risk.
You pay for the space your cargo occupies, starting at 1 CBM, and share the box with other consignments. This is how most clients begin — and how they keep testing new products without tying up capital in a full container.
Roughly half the transit of sea freight at a fraction of the cost of air. The workhorse route for Russia and the CIS, and a genuine option for the EU when a month at sea is too long.
For samples, urgent restocks, and goods where the value per kilo makes the freight cost irrelevant. Airport-to-airport, or door-to-door by courier.
Consolidation
A typical Yiwu order is not one purchase — it is fifteen. Fifteen stalls, fifteen prices, fifteen deliveries arriving on fifteen different days, each in packaging designed to survive a van ride across town and nothing more.
Our warehouse is where that becomes a shipment. Everything lands with us, gets counted and checked, gets repacked if it will not survive a month at sea, and leaves as a single consignment on a single set of documents.
| Container | Usable volume | Max payload | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20' standard | ~28 CBM | ~21,000 kg | Dense or heavy goods |
| 40' standard | ~58 CBM | ~26,000 kg | General cargo |
| 40' high cube | ~68 CBM | ~26,000 kg | Light, bulky goods |
| LCL | from 1 CBM | — | Small & mixed orders |
Usable volume is always less than the nominal figure once cartons are stacked. We plan loads on real carton dimensions, not on the container's specification sheet.
Transit times
Port-to-port estimates from Ningbo, for planning. We confirm real dates against the carrier's schedule when we book.
| Destination | Sea | Rail | Air | Usual mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow, Russia | 40–55 d | 18–25 d | 5–8 d | Rail |
| St Petersburg, Russia | 40–50 d | 20–28 d | 6–9 d | Sea |
| Kyiv, Ukraine | 35–50 d | 20–30 d | 5–9 d | Sea + road |
| Rotterdam, Netherlands | 30–38 d | 18–24 d | 4–7 d | Sea |
| Hamburg, Germany | 32–40 d | 18–24 d | 4–7 d | Sea |
| Felixstowe, United Kingdom | 32–40 d | 20–26 d | 4–7 d | Sea |
| Los Angeles, United States | 18–26 d | — | 4–6 d | Sea |
| New York, United States | 30–40 d | — | 5–8 d | Sea |
Add customs clearance and inland delivery at your end. Chinese New Year and the peak pre-Christmas season both add time — we will warn you before they bite.
Terms of delivery
These are the Incoterms we quote most often. If you are new to importing, DDP is the simplest: one price, delivered, nothing else to arrange.
| Term | We handle | You handle | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXW Ex Works |
Goods ready at the supplier | Everything from collection onward | Buyers with their own forwarder |
| FOB Free On Board |
Goods, inland transport, export clearance, loading at Ningbo | Sea freight, insurance, import | Buyers with a freight contract |
| CIF Cost, Insurance, Freight |
Everything to your port, insured | Import clearance, duty, delivery | Buyers with a customs broker |
| DDP Delivered Duty Paid |
Everything, to your door, duty paid | Unload the truck | First-time importers |
DDP availability and pricing depend on the destination country and the product category. We confirm it per shipment rather than promising it blanket.
Freight questions
One cubic metre by sea, and there is no minimum at all by air courier — we regularly send single sample boxes. There is no minimum order value. Most clients start small deliberately, to test a product before committing to a container.
Yes. Have your suppliers deliver to our Yiwu warehouse and we will receive, check, consolidate and export the goods for you as a freight-only service — even if we had nothing to do with sourcing them.
We always handle the Chinese export side. For the import side, we can quote DDP (we arrange clearance and duty) in most of our regular markets, or supply your own broker with the documents they need. Which is better depends on your country and your product — we will say which one we recommend for your case.
Cargo insurance is available on any shipment and is included by default in CIF and DDP quotes. For FOB and EXW we will quote it separately. For anything of real value, take it — the cost is small relative to a container going overboard.
Bank transfer to our Hong Kong corporate account, in USD or EUR, against an invoice from Rukyan International Limited. Terms are agreed per order — typically a deposit to start production and the balance before the goods ship.
This is why we inspect before loading rather than after arrival — the great majority of problems are caught in our warehouse, while the supplier still has to answer for them. If something does go wrong in transit, you are dealing with us under a Hong Kong contract, and insured cargo is claimed on your behalf.
We will come back with the modes that make sense and what each one costs.