- Your goods share a container with other shippers’ cargo and are deconsolidated at the destination.
- Ocean freight is quoted per cubic metre and looks cheap — typically USD 30–45 per m³.
- The catch is the destination charges: terminal handling, deconsolidation and the customs entry are charged per consignment, not per cubic metre.
- Add five to ten days at each end for consolidation and deconsolidation.
Shipping · by destination
Shipping Furniture From China, by Destination
Furniture leaves Foshan by sea in a container of your own or as an LCL consignment sharing one. The choice turns on packed volume: below roughly 15 m³ you ship LCL, above it a 20 ft container is usually cheaper per cubic metre and always safer for stone and solid timber. What changes by country is the duty and tax, the biosecurity rules for timber packaging, and what has to happen at the door. Source Foshan, a sourcing agent based in Foshan, China, consolidates the order, inspects it, crates it for sea and arranges the delivery leg. Pick your destination below for the figures that apply to it.
Page reviewed by the Source Foshan sourcing team in Foshan · freight figures are dated on each destination page.
At a glance
What is true of every destination.
15 m³Where a container starts to beat an LCL consignment
28–33 m³What a 20 ft actually loads once crates and bracing are counted
65–70 m³A 40 ft high-cube in practice, against 76 m³ on paper
45–70 m³A typical whole home, once sofas and mattresses are packed
ISPM 15Timber packaging treated and marked, everywhere we ship
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Choose your destination.
Each guide carries the current freight bands, the port-to-port transit, the duty and tax that apply on arrival, and what we do at the door — with the date the figures were checked.
Australia
20–27 days · 0% + 10%
40 ft high-cube ocean freight, September 2026
Costs, times and clearance France 25–28 days · 0% duty40 ft high-cube ocean freight to Le Havre, September 2026
Costs, times and clearance Ireland 25–27 days · 0% duty40 ft ocean freight to Dublin, September 2026
Costs, times and clearance New Zealand 20–23 days · 0% + 15%40 ft ocean freight to Auckland, September 2026
Costs, times and clearance South Africa 22–30 days · Up to 20%40 ft ocean freight, September 2026 — the cheapest 40 ft of our five routes
Costs, times and clearanceShipping somewhere not listed? We have delivered to eighteen countries. Send the destination with your list and you get the same numbers by return.
Before it sails
The same three steps, wherever it is going.
Our own warehouse photographs. What changes by country is the paperwork on arrival, not what happens in Foshan.
02 · The one decision
Full container or LCL? It is a volume question.
The same arithmetic applies wherever the container is going. Only the destination charges change.
- Sealed in Foshan, opened at your address. Nobody else’s cargo, one handling.
- A 20 ft loads 28–33 m³ of crated furniture; a 40 ft high-cube 65–70 m³.
- Above roughly 15 m³ the per-cubic-metre cost falls below LCL, and it keeps falling.
- Stone, glass and solid-timber slabs belong here whatever the volume.
Between 15 and 28 m³ the arithmetic is close. We quote both and show the landed number for each rather than telling you which to take.
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What we do, and what we do not.
Stated plainly, because the gap between a freight quote and furniture standing in a room is where projects go wrong.
- Collect from every supplier on the order into one Foshan warehouse and re-crate for sea.
- Inspect every item against the specification and photograph it before anything is packed.
- Treat and mark timber packaging to ISPM 15, and measure packed volume per line.
- Book the sailing, insure the shipment, and issue one packing list covering every supplier.
- Arrange delivery, carry-in, assembly and packaging removal at the address.
- Act as your customs broker. We supply codes, volumes and documents early; your broker lodges the entry.
- Guarantee a freight rate months ahead. Ocean freight is a spot market and we quote it at booking.
- Re-describe goods to reduce duty. It is fraud, and the import is in your name.
- Ship anything we have not inspected, or release a container before you approve the report.
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