Ocean Freight

What We Ship

Sea-express

Courier to the door via UPS / FedEx / DPD. Best for parcels, e-commerce stock, and FBA replenishment.

Sea-trucking

Truck to the door. Best for furniture, heavy goods, B2B pallets, and OOG / oversize cargo.

Sea-rail

Rail transfer plus inland truck. Cost-stable for long-haul inland destinations.

Sea-river

Inland barge plus short truck. Low-cost bulk to river-port and waterway destinations.

Cargo We Carry

Toys & consumer goods

Furniture & home goods

Electronics & 3C appliances

E-bikes & battery-powered vehicles

Chemicals & raw materials

Sensitive cargo

Lanes We Cover

China → USA

• Matson Express — port-to-port to LA / LB. Courier last-mile via UPS / FEDEX. The choice for time-sensitive replenishment, FBA stockouts, and high-margin SKUs.
• OA Standard — port-to-port to LA / LB on a standard sailing. Same courier last-mile options. The choice for cost-balanced bulk volume.

China → Canada

• On-Time · VAN entry — vessel enters at Vancouver on a weekly schedule. Door delivery across Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montréal.
• On-Schedule · USA-transit — vessel enters at Long Beach (USA), customs-clears, then crosses the border by truck. Door delivery across the same Toronto / Calgary / Montréal destinations with a shorter transit than the VAN route.

China → UK

• Sea-express · Self-VAT — DPD courier door. Customer files import under their own GB EORI + VAT; HMRC issues the C79 monthly statement.
• Sea-express · VAT-included — same courier door. We file and prepay UK import VAT on the customer’s behalf.
• Sea-trucking · FBA — trucking last-mile to every Amazon FBA warehouse, our self-operated UK warehouse, and five leading UK third-party fulfilment centres.
• Sea-trucking · non-FBA address — trucking last-mile across UK postal zones.

How We Work

Quote

Send us origin port, destination, commodity, ready-cargo date, and Incoterm; we reply with a port-by-port time and cost outline.

Booking

We lock space across 2M / THE / OA alliance vessels and BCO / NAC / FIX contracts, matched to your exact lane and timing.

Origin customs

Export filing is handled from our five sourcing ports across South and East China: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Yiwu, Ningbo, and Shanghai.

Main-leg ocean

The vessel sails on its booked schedule, with daily tracking visibility from origin cut-off all the way through to discharge.

Destination clearance

We file destination customs, settle duties and VAT per your Incoterm, then dispatch courier or trucking straight to the door.

Signed delivery

Proof of delivery is captured on arrival, and every file is archived for your full warranty and audit windows.

Why ShinSun-Uni

Three-market self-operated product matrix

USA, Canada, and UK — every lane on this page runs under our own self-operated product line, not subcontracted to a single-market agent. Across the three markets combined we handle 20,000+ containers per year.

Five origin ports + peak-season space security

Self-operated head-haul network across Shenzhen / Guangzhou (South China) and Yiwu / Ningbo / Shanghai (East China). When one port runs tight, we shift origin to another port — see Case 2 below.

Alliance + contract depth

Space-secured contracts across 2M / THE / OA — the three major ocean alliances — combined with BCO / NAC / FIX contract types. Peak-season space priority that single-channel agents can’t match.

FAQ

We reply with a port-by-port time and cost outline, itemized when DDP or VAT-included is selected.

Pick sea-trucking for furniture, heavy goods, OOG / oversize, and B2B pallets. Pick sea-express for parcel-friendly volume and FBA replenishment. Same ocean main-leg either way.

Self-VAT if you have a GB EORI + VAT registration and want HMRC’s C79 monthly statement (needed for downstream resale audits and full input-VAT recovery). VAT-included if you’d rather we file and prepay on your behalf — faster onboarding, no HMRC paperwork on your side.

On-Time VAN if arrival can flex and budget is the priority. On-Schedule USA-transit if faster delivery matters for replenishment or contracted retail windows.

DDP covers ocean freight, destination clearance, duties, taxes, and last-mile delivery — but not product compliance (FDA / FCC / CPSC etc.), IOR responsibility (you remain the importer of record in most cases), and AD/CVD investigations on specific HTS codes. See the full DDP scope breakdown in our Shipping from China to USA guide.

Quote comparison is scope-first, not headline-price-first. A lower number that excludes destination DO, ISF, customs bond, AMS, or trucking surcharges isn’t actually lower — it just defers the cost to destination.

Yes. We can arrange all-risk cargo insurance through our network on request — quoted alongside the freight. Claims are filed by our destination team together with the partner adjuster.

By case. We screen against UN / IMDG class and require a valid MSDS plus origin-port DG declaration. Reach out before quoting; we’ll confirm route feasibility.