Imports

LCL Groupage

Your cargo shares a container with everybody else's. Getting it out, identified and moving is the part that costs people money, and it is the part we do every day.

Why it is different

The delay is never the ship

An LCL shipment sits in a groupage depot until it is released, unpacked and collected. Each of those steps is somebody else's queue, and every day in a queue can become a storage charge.

We work those depots daily from our Durban floor, a few minutes from the terminals, so a release can become a collection the same day rather than next week.

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The FBN Transport depot in Durban, a few minutes from the container terminals
The chain

From the groupage depot to your floor

One job, one reference, so nobody has to ring three companies to find out where a shipment stopped.

Watch the release

We follow the shipment on the status reports and move when it is actually available.

Collect

Off the groupage depot, with the paperwork it needs to leave.

Unpack and itemise

At our own depot: weighed, labelled and counted, so every item is identifiable.

Distribute

Released on your instruction, to one address or many, nationwide.

An FBN Transport truck on the highway
What it saves

The clock is the cost

  • Free time and demurrage watched from the start, not discovered on an invoice.
  • Stored on our own supervised floor if you are not ready to receive it.
  • Hazardous shipments keep their identity all the way through our dangerous goods process.
  • A full container instead of a share of one? That is container and break-bulk.

Onward delivery runs on our own scheduled network, as pallets, cartons or a dedicated vehicle, whichever the cargo actually needs.

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Shipment landing in Durban?

Send the house bill or the shipment reference and the delivery address. We will tell you what the cartage, unpack and onward delivery will cost.