Safely Packaging and Wrapping Your Items
Exporters should be aware of the demands that international shipping puts on packaged goods. Exporters should jeep four potential problems in mind when designing an export shipping crate: breakage, moisture, pilferage and excess weight. Whether you're shipping international courier service, your parcel will be handled multiple times, may pass through multiple sortation depots.
WHC Express guide on how to package your parcel tells you all you need to know to package your items for safe, damage-free transit.
Choosing a Box
Choosing a suitable box is one of the most important things you can do to ensure your items are protected during transit and delivered safely. When choosing a box, there are three things to consider: box size, box strength and whether a re-cycled old box is sufficiently robust.
Packing Materials
There are a wide variety of packaging materials you can use to protect your items. When you use a courier to send a parcel, it will be handled multiple times, it will be exposed to environmental conditions and transport vibrations, so it's really important to use the right packaging materials.
Specific marking and labeling is used on export shipping cartons and containers to:
The overseas buyer usually specifies which export marks should appear on the cargo for easy identification by receivers. Products can require many markings for shipment. For example, exporters need to put the following markings on cartons to be shipped: