Insights
Rates, customs, regulation and freight practice — written by the GLIDEX team.
Why average transit has settled at eighteen days, how slot availability has shifted, and when rail beats sea not only on time but on landed cost.
China–Europe rail in 2026: capacity, rates and real transit timesEXW with a Chinese supplier, FOB for air freight, DDP without understanding the tax consequences — real cases and what they cost.
Five Incoterms mistakes that cost more than the freightThe new terminal receives China container trains and allows on-site container stripping. In parallel the engineering team has doubled.
GLIDEX opens a Duisburg terminal and expands the project cargo divisionA post-clearance audit reaches back three years. How to justify a code on the first shipment and what to do when customs proposes a different one.
Tariff classification: how to avoid a reassessment a year laterCrossing times swing from forty minutes to fourteen hours. How we build schedules around real rather than nominal figures.
Border queues: how to plan transit instead of hopingSimple arithmetic with real numbers: at how many pallets a dedicated truck beats groupage, and why the answer is not always twelve.
FTL or LTL: where the break-even really sitsCarrier liability is capped at 8.33 SDR per kilogram. What that means in money and when a separate policy becomes necessary.
Cargo insurance: what CMR covers and what it does notCustoms may review three years of declarations. Which archive to keep, which documents are requested most often and how to minimise reassessment risk.
Post-clearance audit: what an importer should prepare forThe approval process from measurement to departure, and which documentation errors add two weeks to the schedule.
Out-of-gauge permits: why the clock does not start with the applicationNext step
A logistics engineer prepares the route, the transit time and the cost structure within one business day.
Average first response — 41 minutes