Professional, reliable, and cost-effective Less than Container Load (LCL) shipping solutions from China to worldwide destinations.
Start Shipping TodaySince 2012, Goodhope Freight has been building one of China’s leading LCL shipping brands. Leveraging a robust domestic network across 58+ industrial hubs, we provide seamless multimodal LCL solutions via ocean, rail, and road to over 300 global destinations. Our integrated services—from customs brokerage and clearance to port-to-port and door-to-door delivery—are tailored to cut your logistics expenses and boost your competitive edge in the market.
We offer multiple LCL shipping modes to suit your specific requirements.
The most common and cost-effective method for international LCL shipments. We consolidate cargo from multiple shippers into containers at our CFS (Container Freight Station) and ship via reliable ocean carriers to destinations worldwide.
An efficient alternative for shipments to Europe and Central Asia via the China-Europe Railway Express. Faster than ocean freight and more cost-effective than air freight for inland destinations.
Overland LCL services for regional shipments to neighboring countries and cross-border transportation. Ideal for time-sensitive shipments to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe, the UK, Iran, Afghanistan, and Russia.
We handle various types of cargo with specialized expertise.
We handle standard commercial goods that don't require special handling or temperature control:
Specialized handling and documentation for dangerous goods according to IMDG regulations:
Temperature-controlled LCL shipments for perishable goods:
Local collection warehouses covering all major industrial belts. Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beihai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanchang, Xiamen, Shantou, Haikou, Ningbo, Yiwu, Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin, Dalian......
Direct console boxes to ports and hubs around the world. United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Africa, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Southeast Asia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt......
Buying from several suppliers, factories or online platforms? We turn a dozen parcels into one shipment.
Overseas buyers who purchase from Taobao, JD.com, 1688 or from a number of different factories do not want a dozen parcels — they want one shipment. We operate consolidation warehouses across China where goods from every supplier are received, checked, repacked and loaded together into a single container, then moved to the destination port as one LCL shipment belonging to one consignee.
For suppliers that arrive without their own export paperwork, our consolidation team issues a single export declaration for the whole shipment, so every factory’s cargo still travels under one complete, compliant declaration. Individual buyers get the same one-stop service as corporate shippers, including measurement, labelling and photographic confirmation of what was received.
Read more about consolidated shipments or send us your supplier list and we will confirm the warehouse, the cut-off and the all-in cost.
Some cargo cannot travel on a standard groupage booking. These categories can — on the right channel, with the right documents.
Power banks, solar lamps, dry cells, lithium batteries, portable power stations, self-balancing scooters and consumer electronics with an internal battery are all class 9 dangerous goods. They move on dedicated LCL channels with the documentation carriers require — a UN 38.3 test summary and an MSDS — and they are never loaded on a standard groupage booking.
Cosmetics, face masks, cleansers, adhesives, paint, ink, shampoo, liquid soap, desiccants, ink and toner cartridges, chemical raw materials, industrial raw materials, granular cargo, herbal medicines and packaged foodstuffs. These need a specialist booking, an accurate commodity description and, where applicable, an MSDS.
Goods bought from online platforms or from several factories that arrive without a consolidated set of export documents. Our consolidation team issues one declaration covering the whole shipment, so mixed purchases travel under a single compliant export declaration and reach you as one consignment.
Machinery parts in wooden cases, long profiles, moulds and equipment that cannot be stacked normally. Each piece is measured, re-palletised where necessary and quoted with the correct oversize or heavy-lift surcharge rather than being loaded and billed by guesswork.
What a shipper actually gets from an LCL specialist, as opposed to a forwarder that treats groupage as a sideline.
Goodhope Freight has concentrated on international LCL since 2012. For every shipment we compare the sailings actually available for your cargo and select the fastest reliable routing and carrier, rather than selling whichever space we happen to hold. Every step of the groupage process is reviewed so that the service you receive is not simply the cheapest option on the market.
Receiving warehouses in cities all over China shorten the inland leg for your suppliers and cut both delivery cost and delivery time. We maintain long-standing cooperation with LCL agents in more than 100 countries, so we provide not only port-to-port groupage but destination services as well — clearance, deconsolidation and delivery to the consignee.
LCL freight is low, the local charge standard at the destination port is transparent, and our cost sheet is issued in writing. Ask for it before you book. Transparency, more than price, is the reason shippers stay with a forwarder.
LCL sits alongside full container load, air freight, railway express, international express, road freight, customs brokerage and warehousing. A shipment that outgrows groupage switches to a container without changing forwarder, and a shipment that has to be split between sea and air is coordinated in one place.
From first enquiry to delivery, a groupage shipment moves through twelve steps. Here is what happens at each one.
LCL (less than container load) means your cargo shares a container with other shippers' goods. You pay for the space you use, measured in cubic meters or revenue tons, instead of chartering a whole box. It makes sense for consignments of roughly 1 to 15 cubic meters, or whenever the goods do not need a full container's capacity.
As a rule of thumb a 20GP container is quoted as well once a single shipment passes about 15 cubic meters. Below that figure LCL is normally cheaper because you avoid paying for unused container capacity; above it the fixed local charges at both ends, plus the space you are paying for, usually favour a full box.
Yes, and it is the cheapest way to handle multi-supplier sourcing. Goods from Taobao, JD.com, 1688 or from several different factories are received at our consolidation warehouses in China, checked, repacked and loaded into one container for a single consignee. Every separate delivery into a warehouse is charged separately, so combining deliveries cuts both handling cost and paperwork.
Yes, on a dedicated channel. Power banks, solar lamps, dry cells, lithium batteries, portable power stations, self-balancing scooters and electronics with a built-in battery all require dangerous goods documentation, such as a UN 38.3 test summary and an MSDS, and cannot travel on a standard groupage booking. Cosmetics, face masks, cleansers, adhesives, paints, inks, shampoos, liquid soap, desiccants, ink cartridges, chemical and industrial raw materials, granular cargo, herbal medicines and foodstuffs are handled by a team that specialises in them.
Transit time depends on the destination and the routing. Ocean groupage to Europe is typically 25 to 40 days door to door, rail groupage to Europe about 18 to 22 days, and truck groupage to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan one to three weeks depending on the border. We confirm the schedule for your exact port pair before booking.
An LCL quotation covers the ocean, rail or road freight for the volume you ship. Origin charges such as pick-up, warehouse handling, export customs declaration and documentation, and destination charges such as terminal handling, deconsolidation, import clearance, duty and taxes are billed separately and quoted in advance, so you can see the full landed cost before you commit.
Lane-by-lane groupage rates, transit times and local charges for the destinations we ship to most often.
Rates per cubic meter to Felixstowe, London, Southampton and inland UK cities, with volume bands, carriers and the origin and destination local charges.
Shenzhen to Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and fifteen more Canadian cities, plus the ACI filing, DDC and ISPM 15 wood packaging rules.
Above roughly 15 cubic meters a 20GP container is usually cheaper than groupage. Compare the two side by side before you book.
Country-by-country groupage rate lists — port pairs, volume bands, cut-off days, carriers, transit times and the local charges that sit outside the ocean freight.
Tell us the commodity, gross weight, volume, the number of suppliers and the destination country or city. We will come back with the best routing, the all-in rate and the transit time, usually within one working day.
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