I agree. If I am a professional buyer (and responsible to a management) I just cannot afford not to be in charge or not to be informed of any part of the process. This often means extra work and learning, but this is what I am paid for.


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Quoting from [Ranger]:

There seems to be so many problems associated with shipping, by new that I'd like to get several responses from old and new members on how they go about setting up transportation of their products.

Whats your process given the following:

Order: 

1. 1000 widgets
2. palletized and shrink wrapped
3. 29CBM and 17,000kgs
4. FOB Ningbo

The question now is who and how many are you going to contact and what exactly are you going to book.

No right or wrong answers here, I just want to see the responses as it seems people are really having a hard time in defining their shipping.

Ranger

Quoting from [beezeeman]:

Quoting from [Ranger]:

There seems to be so many problems associated with shipping, by new that I'd like to get several responses from old and new members on how they go about setting up transportation of their products.

Whats your process given the following:

Order: 

1. 1000 widgets
2. palletized and shrink wrapped
3. 29CBM and 17,000kgs
4. FOB Ningbo

The question now is who and how many are you going to contact and what exactly are you going to book.

No right or wrong answers here, I just want to see the responses as it seems people are really having a hard time in defining their shipping.

Ranger

     Widgets...a hypothetical manufactured object only, considered to represent the typical product of a manufacturer

Sounds good to me dude....Quoting from [mcartwright]:

Quoting from [Ranger]:

There seems to be so many problems associated with shipping, by new that I'd like to get several responses from old and new members on how they go about setting up transportation of their products.

Whats your process given the following:

Order: 

1. 1000 widgets
2. palletized and shrink wrapped
3. 29CBM and 17,000kgs
4. FOB Ningbo

The question now is who and how many are you going to contact and what exactly are you going to book.

No right or wrong answers here, I just want to see the responses as it seems people are really having a hard time in defining their shipping.

Ranger

Okay lets boil it down to the brass tax of the situation.  My company ships over 50000 TEU a year and does close to 100000 CPM per anume do you?  If not more than likely I can beat anything you can even hope to try to get.  So you send the inquire to my email at mcartwright@re-trans.com  I get you a good cheap rate,  Even if you had the connections or the experience you would never be able to come close to the price that I could get you. Expetitors Inc and NVOS and Freight Forwarders make up 65% of our business so if they are coming to me then shouldnt you! So send it to me and forget about everything else you read on this board!