Freight is where a good purchase becomes a bad one. Corridor choice, sailing schedule, consolidation strategy and destination port performance can swing delivered cost and lead time far more than a negotiation on unit price.
Mooventory Global forwards cargo out of Guangzhou and Nansha, Khor Fakkan and Fujairah, Istanbul, JNPT and Mundra, and into African ports and inland markets — with consolidation warehouses at both ends of the movement.
Modes and services
We route the shipment to the buyer's actual constraint — cost, speed, or certainty of arrival date.
- Sea freight, FCL and LCL, with weekly consolidation departures
- Air freight for high-value, perishable, time-critical and replenishment cargo
- Multimodal sea–road routings into landlocked markets via Djibouti and Dar es Salaam corridors
- Road transport and inland distribution to the final delivery address
- Consolidation warehousing in Guangzhou and Dubai, bonded storage and re-export from the UAE
- Cargo insurance, container tracking and exception management
- Project and out-of-gauge cargo, and breakbulk where containerisation is not viable
Corridor selection changes the number
The same goods can reach the same inland city by very different routes, and the cheapest ocean rate is often not the cheapest delivered cost once destination charges, demurrage risk and inland haulage are counted.
We model the realistic options side by side — for example a direct call at the destination port versus transhipment through UAE east-coast ports or Djibouti with inland transit — and present total delivered cost and realistic transit time for each, including the congestion and free-time assumptions behind them.
Consolidation for smaller buyers
Buyers who cannot fill a container are usually quoted punitive LCL rates or forced to over-order. Our consolidation warehouses accept goods from multiple suppliers, inspect and repack them, and ship a single consolidated unit — which reduces freight cost per unit, reduces the number of clearance events, and gives one arrival to manage instead of five.
Ports and hubs we operate through
Khor Fakkan and Fujairah (UAE), Guangzhou and Nansha (China), JNPT and Mundra (India), Istanbul and Mersin (Türkiye), and Djibouti as the Horn of Africa gateway, plus onward coverage into East, West and Southern African ports and inland terminals.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you ship to a landlocked African country?
- Yes. We handle transit movements into landlocked markets via the Djibouti and Dar es Salaam corridors, including inland trucking, transit bonds and border formalities.
- Do you offer door-to-door delivery?
- Yes. We can quote ex-works to the delivery address, covering factory collection, export clearance, freight, destination clearance and last-mile distribution.
- How long does sea freight from China to East Africa take?
- Transit time depends on the routing, the carrier's service and destination port performance. We quote a realistic door-to-door window per shipment rather than a headline port-to-port figure, and flag congestion and free-time risk in writing.
Get a landed-cost model for your requirement
Send the specification, quantity and destination country. We reply with a delivered, duty-paid cost and a realistic arrival window.