What we offer
Sea freight, also known as ocean freight, is one of the longest established forms of transporting goods internationally. It’s also one of the most economical. While air freight is favored for time-sensitive shipments, sea freight is still the first choice for many businesses and individuals looking for a cost-effective solution.
Sea freight is the most economical way of sending large volumes of goods internationally. If your delivery is not particularly time-sensitive, then we would recommend sea freight as an attractive alternative to air freight or door-to-door courier services.
Aris Cargo Ltd has a long lasting sea freight experience and offers the full range of transport and logistics services related to the transport by containers worldwide:
TYPES
The sea freight can be organized in standard or special (such as temperature controlled or equipped for oversized and heavy loads) containers. Aris Cargo Ltd offers for your container transports to and from Bulgaria competitive prices, flexible timetables and reliable door-to-door service. We operate through the main ports serving Bulgaria – Burgas, Varna, Thessaloniki and Piraeus both for import and export.
The FCL transport services include:
- Door-to-door container logistics worldwide – import, export, tripartite deals
- Multimodal transport
- Transport of goods at temperature regime
- Transport of dangerous goods / IMO
- Transport and handling of oversized and project cargo
- Containerization and decontainerization at / out of port area
- Consolidations and deconsolidation
- Documentary processing
- Full range of services at Varna, Burgas, Thessaloniki and Piraeus ports
- Movement of containers under customs control in the European Union
- Tracking containers’ movement and status update
- All services related to the customs processing of goods arriving in containers
For your convenience the dimensions of the containers can be found here (download).
Pallets’ loading plan for the main types of containers can be found here (download).
When your load is not enough for a full container but the cost is required to be close to this one for transporting one unit of a cargo in a container, we propose you to consolidate your goods with another cargo in a groupage container to any major port worldwide.
Main consolidation import ports are Thessaloniki, Varna, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerpen, Copper, Constanta and others. Main export ports for groupage shipments are Varna, Rotterdam, Copper, Hamburg, Antwerpen, Constanta and others.
- Groupage door-to-door shipments from/to Bulgaria from/to worldwide – import, export, tripartite deals
- Regular sailings at weekly basis
- Organization of loading, unloading and logistics
- Providing all additional services related to terminal and documental processing, taking of goods from the shipper’s warehouse and delivery to your warehouse or to further specified by the customer location
- Movement of containers under customs control in the European Union
- Shipments’ tracking and status updating1§WA§1W
from Far East to Sofia
We operate a regular groupage (LCL) line from China and the Far East for shipments from the Far East to Bulgaria. Your cargo is collected in Hong Kong warehouse where the goods destined to Bulgaria are consolidated and the groupage container is transported to our hub in Sofia. Here the decontainerization is made and your shipment is released or either it’s available for further processing to final destination. The freight rates are based on a FOB Far East port to our hub, additional logistics services at shipper / consignee excluded.
The advantages of this service are:
- Weekly sailings from Hong Kong
- From 3 to 7 sailings from the main Chinese and Far Eastern ports to Hong Kong per week
- Unloading port Thessaloniki
- Shorter transit time compared to the services to Varna port
- Deconsolidation in a hub controlled by us
- Organization of loading, unloading and logistics entirely under our control
- All additional services related to terminal and document processing, taking of goods from the shipper’s warehouse and delivery to your warehouse or to further specified by the customer location
Current timetable of the main ports served by Aris Cargo Ltd and approximate transit times to Bulgaria can be found HERE (download).
Sea-Air – sea / air combined transport.
Specialized service from the Far East to Bulgaria. Cheaper than the regular air freight with shorter than the sea freight transit times, between 17 to 21 calendar days after leaving the port of departure.