Shipping, containers, ports and export documentation from Egypt.
The floor space maths behind an Egyptian mixed container. Pallet footprints, how many positions a 40 foot high cube reefer holds, half pallet economics and the mistakes that waste a slot.
Which Egyptian products can share a reefer container and which cannot. Temperature bands, ethylene producers and absorbers, odour transfer and how to build a mixed load that arrives sound.
What must appear on every carton leaving Egypt for the EU, UK and Gulf: packer details, origin, class, size, lot code and Arabic labelling, plus the extra rules that apply to mixed and part-load shipments.
Incoterms behave differently on a half pallet than on a full container. How FOB, CFR, CIF and DAP work on Egyptian part-loads and groupage, and which term actually protects a mid-size buyer.
What demurrage and detention actually charge for, typical reefer free time on Egyptian shipments, why plug charges compound the cost, and how mid-size buyers avoid both.
Every line that sits between an FOB price and the carton on your warehouse floor, and how mid-size buyers turn a mixed-load quotation into a defensible cost per carton.
Landed Cost on an Egyptian Part-Load 2026: Building the Real Number Per Carton Read More »
A mixed container from Egypt passes through four or five parties before it reaches your warehouse. Who is responsible for what, where the handover points sit under Incoterms 2020, and where delays usually start.
Who Does What on an Egyptian Mixed Container 2026: Exporter, Forwarder, Line and Broker Read More »
How cold chain records work on a mixed Egyptian container: logger types, where they are placed, what the download shows, how to read pull-down and defrost cycles, and how the data supports or defeats an arrival claim.
Air freight from Cairo costs many times what sea costs, and on a few products it still makes commercial sense. Chargeable weight, pack changes, transit times and the four situations where flying Egyptian produce pays.
What to record in the first hour after a reefer from Egypt is opened, why the sequence matters, and how a fifteen minute routine protects a claim if one is ever needed.
Container Arrival Checks on Egyptian Produce 2026: The First Hour After the Doors Open Read More »