The term is called consolidation. No matter how many suppliers are sending your goods, we will pack them together. No worries!
1. The destination country 2. The shipping method - sea or air freight 3. The nature of goods to be shipped - Normal goods or sensitive goods. Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa takes 5-10 days for normal goods using air freight. Sea freight takes 70-90 days. Sensitive goods take about 12 days.
In Nigeria, shipping is simply transporting goods from the place of its origin to the destination point. Clearing on the other hand means the activities that are involved in bringing out the goods that was imported into the destination country. This is called custom clearance. At first, you pay for the cost of transporting the goods you bought from the country of origin to the destination country. This fee is called shipping fee. You make the payment to the freight forwarder handling the shipment. Clearing fee is paid to the custom agency of that destination country. Your freight forwarder can also play the part of handling the fees of which you will have to settle them later.
Normal goods are simply any item that has no life in them nor liquid nor paste. No battery of any type. Battery and sensitive goods are most times classified together. They include electronics, perfumes, creams, paste, wristwatches...They are shipped differently.