DGX Shipping Blog

DGX - Dependable Global Express stands ready to serve all of your air cargo and shipping needs. Here are eight great reasons to use us to ship your cargo via air freight: FAST.   Air freight services are vital when your goods must be delivered over longer distances quickly. It’s the best and fastest transit compared to any type of surface transportation. QUICK INVENTORY TURNS. For higher valued goods, air freight enables a supply chain with fast and consistent deliveries to convert your high value inventory into dollars through faster inventory turns. An example: apparel for retail stores cannot be sold if it’s not on the shelf. SAVES MONEY.  When your production line or machine breaks down, although the replacement part may not be expensive, it could be a vital component to getting your production back up and running. Using air freight transport saves you money in many cases where productivity and getting product to the market are critical to your bottom line. Using ai...

Shipping to or from China can be made a lot easier when working with the right Logistics Service Provider. DGX - Dependable Global Express owns its offices in mainland China and Hong Kong and provides a wide range of Full Container Load (FCL) and Less than Container Load (LCL) ocean services worldwide, and global air services shipping to/from China. As an ocean master-pack consolidator, DGX is able to accept LCL cargo anywhere in the continental United States and deliver to anywhere in mainland China and Hong Kong with weekly scheduled sailings via our Long Beach gateway to Shanghai and Hong Kong . Our dedicated customer service representatives offer professional logistics assistance and supply chain solutions in Mandarin, English, and Cantonese. DGX is capable of servicing e-commerce clients from U.S. to  Mainland China via the  Hong Kong Freeport. DGX also specializes in servicing the Hawaiian Islands shipping to and from China . Whether mainland China or Hong...

When shipping to Japan, the customers DGX - Dependable Global Express handles are driven by the need for shipping accuracy, the quickest/fastest time to destination and the quality of how the merchandise looks. Your items arriving in Japan have to look “untouched,” like they are brand new and have not been handled multiple times in the shipping process. Knowing which carrier to use and which service to use are extremely important since this ultimately determines your time to destination. DGX customers have high expectations when it comes to shipping timeline accuracy and any deviation from the initial schedule is unacceptable to many customers. What makes DGX different in how we do things? First, we offer both full container load (FCL), and less than container load (LCL) services to a multitude of destinations in Japan . FCL's can be offered to virtually any destination in Japan that can be reached by road once discharged from the ocean carrier. Our LCL service includes dir...

Numerous options are available with shipping ocean freight to Puerto Rico , either by a LCL (Less than Container Load) or FCL (Full Container Load) shipping service. FCL is considered easier because the container is the package. It’s less of a logistical challenge than moving a smaller LCL shipment where packaging and reliance on a common carrier/trucker (to pick up and deliver your goods to a dock for re-handling into a container) may become crucial. There are a variety of carriers that will move your container to Puerto Rico including ocean carriers who actually own or operate the vessels, freight forwarders, and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCC’s). There are also household goods movers who are used to move your freight depending on whether it is a business to business (B2B) move, a business to consumer (B2C) move or a household goods/personal effects shipment. Pricing can depend on whether it’s a one-time shipment or a series of commercial shipments, as well as how ...

Shipping ocean freight to or from Guam can be a complex situation for a variety of reasons. Only one carrier services Guam directly with a USA stop-off from the USA mainland – Matson Navigation Company (Matson). Matson’s transit time from Long Beach (SoCA), which includes a stop off in Hawaii, is 12 days from Long Beach to Guam, four days longer from Oakland and five days longer from Seattle. American President Lines (APL) also ships containers to Guam but their transit time is not less than 23 days from Los Angeles, and perhaps longer depending on the vessel the Guam container gets loaded on and the foreign port where unloaded before being loaded onto a feeder vessel into Guam. APL does not offer any alternative transit times for container shipping to Guam from Oakland or Seattle, but modern day trucking services will allow them to service those areas, although less timely than the Matson direct service. APL and Matson both have fully developed and integrated rail services to co...

The most important issue in shipping to, from or within India currently is the new India Tax reform scheduled to take effect July 1, 2017. This new tax structure will have a direct impact on logistics providers and cost structures. Whether shipping full container loads (FCL) to India, or shipping less than container load (LCL) shipments to Indi a, this new law will impact ultimate cargo and logistics costs. Currently, each of India’s 29 states taxes the goods that move across their borders at various rates. As a result, freight that moves across the country is taxed multiple times. The Indian government is about to roll out the new indirect tax program, GST, which has been in the works for over 12 years. The impact of the GST on the individual companies located in India: The consumer durables sector is expected to witness maximum drop in the logistics costs as a percentage of total sales, as their warehouses are built in certain specific states to avoid interstate tax. Consumer...

DGX - Dependable Global Express started shipping to Guam from the continental USA in 1981, when Founder, Ron Massman, bought a company that shipped to Guam for a grocery distributor. When current president Brad Dechter joined DGX - Dependable Global Express in 1982, the Guam trade lane became the first trade lane for which he was responsible. Since DGX was shipping from California to Guam at that time, Guam helped with the future direction of the company: helping to refine their mainland trucking network to cover more inland points. Also, it helped them to replace their delivery agent on the Island and realize they needed to begin shipping from Guam to California. Lessons learned in the microcosm of the Guam trade were eventually used across all services. As DGX listened to the needs of their Guam customers, they changed their name to help the local customers feel their specific needs were being addressed. In 1989, the company opened their trucking operation on Guam, which was so ...