Friday, March 30, 2018

Benefits Of Using Balikbayan Box Shipping

By Brenda Kennedy


The establishment of this company came from the need by overseas Filipinos to send items backs to their country people. This service has grown and expanded over time and is now reaching many places beyond the Philippines. It has increased in sophistication with improvement and addition of other services. It has enabled items to move much faster and conveniently than before. Below are some of the advantages of using Balikbayan box shipping.

The process of box delivery is fast and convenient using air transport. The introduction of air transport system had enabled goods to send and received within the shortest time. This is more convenient compared to the sea, which takes a couple of days or months for the goods to reach the destination. This efficiency has enabled even the sending of perishable and delicate items because of the surety of safe delivery.

The reliability is high because the schedule for cargo departure and arrival is fixed. Air flight has made cargo transport very reliable due to the strict schedule of departure and arrival. This guarantees the arrival of the cargo at the given time. However, incase delays in flight happens, the goods are loaded on another flight that will deliver the goods to the desired destination.

Nowadays cargo can be sent to almost any place on earth. Terminals have been built in every part of different countries to make deliveries conveniently. Cargo once at the terminal, is then transport by couriers to the exact destination of the recipient. This has reduced the burden of traveling to the terminal to receive the goods.

The cost of transporting cargo via shipping medium such as air is relatively low in term of the amount charged as insurance premiums. This is because the time of the cargo will be in transit is very low thus lowering the extent of exposure to the possible occurrence of a risk. Compared to other means such as roads which expose the cargo long enough to risk the mount charged in higher.

Sending cargo through this medium is safe due to reduced risk of theft or damages. The company has employed the various mechanism of enforcing the security of the cargo such as having distinctive box features and tightly sealing and marking the cargo. The detail of both the sender and recipient is verified to ensure that a wrong person does not receive the goods.

The company has made it possible for a person to track and follow the transit of the cargo. Through a web application, one can monitor the movement of the cargo from departure to arrival to keep updated on the progress of the goods. This guarantees safety and enables one to know of any delays that might happen.

Freight services have enabled the sending and receiving of goods from almost every part of the world. It has facilitated quick recipient of cargo, which could have otherwise taken long to reach, even to the doorstep. This coupled with different means of transporting the goods has made shipping of cargo much convenient and easier.




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