Explore real-time calculators, production calendars, and compliance Q&As built to provide complete visibility into your international procurement project.
Landed Cost Calculators
Transit Calendars
Compliance & Q&A
Calculate duty rates, port clearance, and itemized freight fees with complete clarity.
Map manufacturing lead times, customs milestones, and doorstep delivery schedules.
Find transparent answers regarding factory QA checks, material standards, and tariffs.
Sourcing & Import Transparency
How are tariff shifts and customs holds handled?
What prevents factory samples from differing from bulk site deliveries?
How are shipping bottlenecks and weather delays mitigated?
Are there hidden port discharge or demurrage costs?
We verify tariff codes prior to container loading and manage customs clearance directly, ensuring full compliance and eliminating unexpected holds at discharge ports.
Independent third-party inspections check material batches at origin factories before containers seal, ensuring delivered goods strictly match approved project submittals.
Shipments include realistic transit buffers and flexible feeder routes, backed by direct satellite tracking updates provided to your project team.
All landed quotes cover complete freight terms including origin haulage, shipping, port discharge fees, duties, and final transport to site. If customs detains items, which is a possibility, we will communicate.
Lingo
How long is the sourcing, manufacturing and shipping process?
What is LCL versus FCL?
Does Coreline Commercial help load the container?
How do we install our products?
We allow 2-weeks for sourcing, 4-6 weeks for manufacturing once specs have been agreed upon, and 4-8 weeks for shipping usually by sea. Our calculator is a great Segway to get an estimated price!
LCL is less than a container load, where your shipment is loaded with other peoples goods, and FCL is full container load, and our recommended transport option, where the container only ships your goods.
Coreline helps load your containers before shipment using our 3D layout system, ensuring you are getting the most out of your load!
Coreline has our own in-house teams and have partnered up with specialists to ensure your goods are installed to spec as per the manufacturer, and all our suppliers provide on-call support to ensure all products are in good working condition.
Almost nobody buys completely direct across language and legal barriers. What matters is whether your intermediary works for you or profits from your blind spots.
On-the-Ground Agent
Alibaba Trading Reseller
Stockholding Distributor
Operates locally in Yiwu, Shenzhen, or Guangzhou. Navigates domestic wholesale platforms like 1688 and factory networks directly, charging a transparent 3% to 10% fee.
Positions online as a primary manufacturer while sitting several layers removed. They mark up direct factory pricing by 20% to 100%, earning more by keeping you separated.
Purchases and warehouses catalog inventory locally. Built-in margins remain completely opaque, and recommendations favor clearing their existing warehouse stock over client fit.
Questions About Your Shipment?
Connect directly with our founders to audit your project bill of quantities and map real-world lead times.