Pros and Cons of Shipping Freight Directly, Middleman, Maritime Shipping


Amazon is a company that got famous due to its service of delivering all the items ordered on its website or even its app and let it be any kind of order such as some electronic, decoration item, furniture, groceries, house care items, accessories for all gender, fashion etc.

Almost every product that Amazon delivers to your house has been shipped directly from China to the USA or wherever your residential address is in the world. Amazon got famous when it started doorstep delivery and proved that they provide all the item that you order from any country and also in good condition and also in the time period that they have told you and also in sound and safe condition.

Amazon is a multinational technology company that was originally created by a person called Jeff Bezos in the year 1994, in the state of Washington. They had originally started the company for the reason of selling books and also novels on their online store.

They ended up selling a different kind of products like electronics, software, video games, apparels, furniture, food, toys and also jewellery by the year 2015.

At that time in the year, 2015, Amazon’s main competitor were companies like Walmart, Target, and Ikea etc. Amazon had a made a successful launch of these products on their website called as Amazon.com where millions of people had already started ordering the products that they want from the retailer as well as the company from which they want to without any restriction.

Different kind of products and services created by Amazon are Amazon Fresh, Amazon Prime, Alexa, Kindle, Fire TV stick, fire table, kindle store, Amazon studio, Amazon music, Amazon digital game store, Amazon drive, drive, Amazon wireless, Amazon web services and also Amazon AppStore.

Pros and cons of shipping directly from China to the USA


Pros of shipping directly

  • Quicker transit time as you have directly shipped the products from China to the warehouse in the USA or anywhere a warehouse is present in the country from where the order was received.
    The cost of paying the middleman the money to do all the paperwork and also to look after the package until the time it is kept in the container and has finally processed for shipping.

Cons of shipping directly

  • Amazon will request you to ship your product, not to a centralized warehouse but will ask you to ship it any warehouse first and then will send it for processing to the central one.
    You will have to pay for all the charges of shipping as well as the customs before the package reaches Amazon warehouse.
    The product must meet all the shipping as well as the packaging standards set by Amazon Company.

Pros and cons of shipping through a middleman from China to the USA
Pros of shipping through a middleman

  • Products are packed and shipped from China in a consolidated form and is paid for by the middleman.
    You can inspect the package at any point to see the condition in which it is shipping and also check whether the product is fine or not.
    The strategy which you use to sell your product remains classified and is not shown to the Chinese businessman.
    Shipment is unlikely to be rejected by FBA as all the conditions are looked after by the middleman.

Cons of shipping through a middleman

  • You will have to pay a certain amount of money to someone in the country of China that is trusted to do all the work for you, or you can do all the hassle by yourself.
    Shipment takes a longer time to reach FBA and then extra time to go out for delivery.

Pros and Cons of Maritime Shipping Product from China to the USA

Pros of maritime shipping

  • There is a lot of room on the ship so you can send any amount of package you want to send and it can weigh anything of your liking.
    This type of shipping is highly affordable and is also easily available to find in the market.

Cons of Maritime Shipping

  • This type of shipping product is way slower method then air as this type of shipping takes place on the sea and takes a long time to reach from one country to another.
    This kind of service can be delayed a little due to the problems that are created on the sea either due to a natural disaster or due to the closing of the maritime shipping office during public holidays.

We hope you like the article and had gained some idea on how these logistics middleman works. Feel free to browse this blog for more knowledge advantage.

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