Services
Consultancy
Advice on how a shipment should move before it moves: which gateway, which corridor, what the paperwork will demand, and what it will genuinely cost to land.
Most of what goes wrong with a consignment is decided before it is booked. The gateway, the corridor, the way goods are described on the paperwork, and the assumptions built into the costing all get fixed early. By the time a container is standing at a port against the wrong documentation, those decisions are expensive to revisit.
This is advisory work rather than execution. We map the realistic options against the cargo, set out what each route will ask for in documentation and time, and say what the shipment should cost to land. Where the honest answer is that a lane does not suit Britex, that is a useful answer too, and you will get it.
At a glance
- 11+
- years on the corridor
- 13
- countries covered
- 4
- gateway ports worked
- 1
- point of contact
What the consultancy covers
Advice on gateway and corridor choice, documentation and compliance requirements, and landed-cost planning, given before a shipment is committed rather than after it goes wrong.
Gateway and corridor selection
Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti or the Mozambican ports, weighed against the destination, the cargo and the season rather than against habit.
Documentation and compliance requirements
What each authority on the route will ask for, and when. Advisory only: Britex does not lodge entries or act as your clearing agent.
Landed-cost planning
Freight, handling, transit and inland legs built into one figure, so a delivered cost is known before a booking is committed.
Route risk and timing review
Border conditions, seasonal constraints and known congestion points on the lane, stated plainly rather than smoothed over.
Mode and carrier options
Road, rail or a combination, and where a transhipment or an inland depot changes the arithmetic on a particular corridor.
Pre-shipment readiness check
A review of the paperwork and the plan before cargo moves, which is the last cheap moment to find a problem.
How an engagement runs
- 01
Brief taken
The cargo, the origin, the destination and the constraints that actually matter to you are established first.
- 02
Options mapped
The viable gateways and corridors are set against each other, with what each demands in documentation and time.
- 03
Recommendation and costing
A route recommendation with a landed cost behind it, and the assumptions it rests on written down.
- 04
Handover or booking
You take the plan to your own forwarder, or Britex runs the legs it is the right carrier for.
Who this is for
First-time importers
Cargo owners moving into the region who need the route and the paperwork explained before committing to it.
Shippers entering a new market
An established importer opening a corridor they have not run before, where the old assumptions do not carry over.
Freight forwarders
Local knowledge of the gateway and the corridor when your own team is not on the ground here.
Project and industrial cargo
Consignments where the route has to be planned around the cargo rather than the cargo squeezed onto a standard route.
Other services
Have cargo at the port? Let’s move it.
Tell us what’s coming in or going out and we’ll handle it end to end: port coordination, haulage, and delivery.