Navigating the complexities of shipping oversized or irregular products to a single destination can be a logistical headache for many businesses in New Zealand. The challenge of coordinating such diverse items, managing costs, and ensuring timely deliveries often leaves companies searching for more efficient solutions.
Here, DHL's Loose Breakbulk Express shipping emerges as a compelling answer by managing individual shipments—referred to as "Baby" shipments—separately, yet consolidating them under a single "Mother" shipment for customs clearance. This method not only enhances shipping efficiency but also proves cost-effective, making it an attractive option for businesses looking to optimize their distribution strategies.
Read on to discover more about how DHL’s Loose Breakbulk Express shipping can transform your logistical operations and contribute to your business growth.
Benefits of DHL Express loose breakbulk shipping services
Explore the different ways loose breakbulk shipping streamline complex logistical tasks:
1. Prevent shipment delays
Let’s say you run a business that needs to send different, large, or awkwardly shaped products to various global destinations. Typically, managing such shipments individually could involve extensive handling and coordination—a process prone to delays and errors.
DHL's Loose Breakbulk Express service simplifies this by managing each product separately yet efficiently. By handling each item individually and facilitating custom clearance as a consolidated "Mother" shipment, LBX reduces the handling time and minimizes the risk of errors. This approach ensures faster, more reliable deliveries directly to the destination without the need for additional handling or sorting at intermediate hubs.
Such efficiency not only streamlines logistics but also enhances customer satisfaction by delivering products on time, which can strengthen customer loyalty and contribute to a positive brand reputation.
2. Save on customs charges
DHL's Loose Breakbulk Express shipping service strategically consolidates individual "Baby" shipments into a single "Mother" shipment for customs purposes, significantly enhancing the efficiency of customs processing. By doing so, it effectively reduces customs charges, as a single transaction covers the entire "Mother" shipment, significantly reducing overall shipping costs compared to handling multiple transactions for each "Baby" shipment.
3. Reduce paperwork
Managing a large number of individual shipments typically involves extensive paperwork, with each item requiring its own air waybill and customs invoice. This can become a time-consuming burden for your team, taking away from more critical tasks.
Loose Breakbulk Express shipping offers a simpler solution. Instead of handling separate documents for each shipment, you only need one shipping label and customs invoice for the entire LBX shipment. Once it clears customs, the shipment is split and delivered to the final destination. This streamlined process significantly reduces paperwork, saving time and allowing for smoother operations.
4. Select multiple delivery locations
With LBX, businesses can easily deliver to multiple destinations from a single shipment. Once the consolidated shipment reaches a DHL Express warehouse, it is split into separate deliveries for each location. This feature offers flexibility, allowing businesses to ship items to various addresses in one go, rather than creating multiple individual shipments.
By simplifying the logistics, LBX helps companies manage multiple delivery locations more efficiently, saving time and costs while ensuring that products reach their final destinations seamlessly.
How to set up DHL Loose Breakbulk Express
Follow these steps to efficiently set up DHL Loose Breakbulk Express, ensuring your shipments are managed and delivered effectively.
Step 1: Create a DHL Express business account
Start by opening a DHL Express business account. Simply apply online through DHL Express New Zealand’s website, and a representative will guide you through the setup process.
Step 2: Integrate the MyDHL API with the e-commerce platform
Next, choose DHL Express as your courier service on your e-commerce platform. You'll be provided with the credentials needed to integrate the MyDHL API into your site, allowing you to seamlessly manage your shipping services directly through your online platform.
Step 3: Add the LBX product code
Activate Loose Breakbulk Express services by adding the LBX product code to your DHL account.
Step 4: Generate parent and child air waybills
When setting up your shipment with DHL's Loose Breakbulk Express, generate the parent Air Waybill (AWB) for the consolidated shipment, which includes all necessary details such as weight, dimensions, and addresses. Once the parent AWB is created, you can use it to generate child AWBs for each individual part of the shipment.
Enter the parent AWB number into the order dialogue box as a reference for each child AWB. This ensures that every shipment segment is tracked individually, maintaining accurate monitoring and documentation as each part heads to its specific destination.
If you encounter any issues during the setup process, don't hesitate to contact your DHL Express account manager for assistance.
Why choose DHL Express for loose breakbulk shipping
When selecting DHL Express New Zealand for your loose breakbulk shipping needs, you're engaging a partner with an expansive international network covering over 220 countries and territories globally. This extensive reach enables us to manage international shipping from New Zealand efficiently, ensuring smooth transit from origin to destination.
Additionally, our shipping solutions include customs clearance assistance, which simplifies the complex process of moving goods across international borders. Furthermore, we provide online shipment tracking to allow customers to monitor their cargo every step of the way.
Ready to streamline your shipping process? Contact us today to leverage the benefits of DHL Express’s Loose Breakbulk shipping service.
