by HIGH POINT – To offer customers flexibility in shipping, motion furniture specialist Manwah USA has implemented a “Logistics Option Program” that will help flow product at the lowest costs possible.
Its new “Logistics Option Program” offers three distinct landed price choices including:
+ CFR to your door pricing – or the current landed program of product plus a surcharge – which is being reduced from $9,800 to $9,500. The company said this amount can change every two weeks.
+ CFR conversion to FOB – which the company said will allow retailers to move a container at a lower freight rate. Manwah said it will put a $4,500 freight discount line on invoices and a $3,500 freight line discount on invoices for California.
+ CFR conversion to CY-CY.
The company said it also will offer landed pricing to the port.
Through this arrangement, Manwah will handle the shipping freight from the Asia factory to the U.S. port. Retailers will then have their trucking partners pick up the containers at the ports and have those trucks deliver it straight to their doors.
Some examples of the CY-CY surcharge are as follows:
L.A. will have a $7,000 surcharge, while New York will have an $8,000 surcharge.
Meanwhile Chicago/Columbus will have a $9,000 surcharge.
Other surcharges will vary by region or city.
In addition, the company said it has invested in a technology platform called Cargo Wise. This will allow for the tracking of containers from their origin to their destination.
“We intend to create transparency in shipping information giving our customers real-time information which you will be able to access directly,” company President Gabriele Natale said in a letter outlining the changes to retailers, adding that it will provide additional details as it rolls out the program.
