INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT

Route One Forwarding is part of one of the leading worldwide networks for sea freight and container services. Working in partnership with all major shipping lines and having access to extensive shipping schedules, our Sea freight division offers a complete package of cost effective delivery options for distributing goods around the world.

Your consignments are looked after by trained professionals with vast sea freight experience and knowledge of the sea freight industry. They will manage and control the entire process from collection to final delivery, providing a single point of contact.

We have strategically positioned facilities throughout the UK. Whether your cargo is transiting Felixstowe, Liverpool, Southampton or Tilbury we can offer local traction and consolidation or devanning points.
At Route One we offer specialist expertise across the complete range of import and export services. Our dedicated and highly motivated teams throughout the network provide a comprehensive range of services including

  • We can offer direct access to over 350 partners in more than 120 countries.
  • Scheduled groupage and full container services worldwide
  • Comprehensive consolidation and deconsolidation services
  • Full in-house Customs services with ICD or ERTS facilities at UK warehouses
  • Competitive rates with fast transit times
  • Strategic alliances with carriers and service providers
  • Strategic partnerships with regionally strong independent freight forwarders
  • Unrivalled local experience worldwide
  • Track and trace from origin to final destination
  • Cross trade freight management services
  • Specialists in project forwarding, out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargo movements
  • Experienced and customer-focused staff
  • Expert advice on Customs formalities worldwide
  • Competitively priced insurance
  • Our UK network connects with carefully selected regionally strong overseas partners and you can be certain that we will understand your needs and deliver solutions based on our experience

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With a global network of over 350 leading independent partners, we are able to offer the most comprehensive range of import and export consolidation and full load services to our customers. Our global freight volumes mean that we can negotiate the most competitive rates, safeguard capacity on the busiest routes and offer our customers flexible transit times to suit their requirements. This is based on our dedicated weekly import and export groupage services on all of the world’s major trade lanes using modern consolidation and deconsolidation facilities UK and worldwide.

This means that Route One can provide you with complete solutions from single carton movements through to large global contract movements.

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At Route One, we have a team of dedicated trade lane specialists covering different languages, local laws and customs can often feel like impenetrable barriers to your trading efforts.

Our trade lane route managers have extensive knowledge of their respective trading area such as South Africa, Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Far East, Australasia and North America, giving them an excellent understanding of the local working practices, potential problems and more importantly the ground level experience of how to overcome them.

 

** ROUTE ONES SEA FREIGHT DIVISION CONTINUES TO LEAD THE FIELD IN THIS VERY DEMANDING AND COMPETITIVE ASPECT OF THE INDUSTRY PROVIDING WORLDWIDE EXPORT, IMPORT AND LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS TO ENHANCE OUR CUSTOMERS SUPPLY CHAIN **