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Asia → United States · Air · Dangerous goods

The part is in Shenzhen. Your customer is waiting.

Expedited air freight and managed replenishment for US aftermarket and spare parts distributors importing from Asia. We handle every leg: supplier pickup in China, the air move, US customs entry, and delivery to your warehouse, your dealer, or straight to the end customer.

Send one shipment’s specs Compliant routing and landed quote back within 48 hours.
Origin
SZX / HKG / CAN
Destination
LAX / ORD / JFK
Door to door
5–7 days
Class 9 capable
UN3480 / UN3481

Why this is hard to buy

Most forwarders only own half your supply chain.

When a shipment goes wrong, it usually goes wrong at a handoff. The forwarder blames the origin agent, the origin agent blames the broker, and you spend a week finding out who has your freight.

Forwarders based in China

Strong on the factory side and priced aggressively. Thin on US customs compliance, and they subcontract everything past the airport. Informal entries and optimistic classifications become your problem, not theirs.

Forwarders based in the US

Strong on entry and domestic distribution. They reach Asia through a partner agent they do not control, so origin pickup, consolidation and cut-off decisions happen at arm’s length.

We operate on both ends. Twelve years in cross-border logistics, seven of them based in Shenzhen. One company is accountable from the factory floor to the delivery signature.

The four legs

One company, four legs, no handoff you have to manage.

LEG 01 · ORIGIN

Supplier pickup

Collection across South China. Multiple suppliers consolidated into one shipment, so you stop paying four times to move four cartons.

LEG 02 · AIR

Air move

Consolidated or expedited depending on urgency. Dangerous goods handled properly, including lithium cells packed with and contained in equipment.

LEG 03 · ENTRY

US customs entry

Classification, valuation and duty handled as a formal entry. Built to survive a CBP review rather than to clear quickly and hope.

LEG 04 · DELIVERY

Final delivery

To your warehouse, your dealer network, or direct to the end customer. Skipping your warehouse entirely is usually the cheapest option.

What this is actually worth

Most of your US inventory exists because Asia is slow.

Safety stock is a lead-time problem wearing a warehouse costume. Shorten replenishment from weeks to days and a large share of that inventory stops being necessary. Here is the arithmetic on your own numbers.

$4.0M
45 days
24%
7 days
Working capital released
$416,000
38 fewer days of inventory sitting in your warehouse.
Annual carrying cost avoided
$99,800
Storage, insurance, obsolescence and the cost of capital on stock you no longer hold.
Estimate only. Uses standard lead-time inventory math and assumes steady demand. Your real number depends on SKU mix, order frequency and service level. We will work it through properly on your actual data.

What we move

The shipments other people would rather not quote.

CLASS 9 · UN3480 / UN3481

Lithium batteries and battery-containing equipment

Power tools, e-bike and micromobility packs, power stations, medical and test equipment. Packed with equipment, contained in equipment, or standalone cells, declared and documented correctly.

MULTI-VENDOR CONSOLIDATION

Four suppliers, one shipment

Collection across Shenzhen, Dongguan, Changzhou and Zhejiang, consolidated before uplift. One air waybill, one entry, one delivery, one invoice.

HEAVY & MULTI-PIECE

Where courier rates stop making sense

Integrator pricing escalates sharply on weight and piece count. Above a few hundred kilos, consolidated air freight is usually materially cheaper for the same transit time.

AOG-STYLE URGENCY

Line-down and stockout recovery

A machine is down, a dealer is waiting, a part shipped short. Next available flight, moving the same day the specs arrive.

Compliance

Cheap door-to-door out of China has a bill attached.

Low all-in DDP rates from Asia often rely on informal entries, undervaluation, or a tariff code chosen for convenience rather than accuracy. With de minimis gone and duty rates elevated, every shipment now needs a real entry.

The exposure does not sit with the forwarder who quoted you. It sits with the importer of record, which is you. US customs compliance, IOR structuring and classification is the part of this business we know best, and it is not an add-on service. It is how every shipment moves.

Getting started

Send us one real shipment.

Not a meeting, not a capabilities deck. Pick one shipment you actually have coming and we will price it properly.

  1. Send the specs: supplier location, weight and dimensions, commodity, whether it contains batteries, and where it needs to land.
  2. We return a routing, a transit time, a landed cost including duty, and the compliance treatment we would use. Within 48 hours.
  3. Compare it against what you pay today. If it does not beat your current option, we will tell you that.