Advantages of International Shipping

by Feng Mian China freight

Shipping can be done in two ways they are: national and international. International shipping is caring for goods from country to another country through ship or aircraft. National shipping means the transportation of goods within the country. International shipping can be done anywhere in the world like shipping from china to US, China Shipping to Canada and USA to China, etc. International shipping is more expensive than domestic shipping.

· Wider market option

International shipping provides a wider market opportunity to sell the product. Its helps the suppliers to transport the goods easily without more problems.

· Help to reduce seasonal problems

If you are transporting the product to different countries, the seasonal sell issue will reduce as you are getting the wider market as a different country will have a different season. Warehouse issue will reduce as you don’t have to keep most of the product in stock.

· More revenue

Shipping a product from one country and delivering it to another country will provide more revenue than domestic shipping.

· Wider sell

The international shipping Helps in providing delivery to a different country which helps the seller to deliver the product in a larger market. International shipping provides a wider market to sell the product.

· Longer product lifespan

The international shipping has longer life span then domestic shipping.

Disadvantages of international shipping

· Language barriers problem

The most basic issue in international shipping of product or selling the product internationally is the language issue. As in the world, there are a variety of languages, and every person is not comfortable in all the languages which create a barrier in shipping like in china people speak in Chinese and USA people speak in us English so if the seller wants to ship the product from China to the USA there come a barrier of language.

· Servicing issue

After delivering the product, the suppliers need to provide after sell service and the providing service internationally become more costly than domestic after sell service.

· Additional cost

Shipping of product or transportation goods from one country to another country through ship cargo or aircraft gets costlier and additional documentation cost after sell cost and different after-sell services cost is very high.

· Bearing international returns

After the delivery, if any problem occurs like the product gets damage or some internal defect occurs the customer returns the product, and the return shipping charges are to be paid by the suppliers.

· Documentation

Lot of documentation and paper works is to be done if any seller wants to ship the product from one country to another.