Ocean & air freight · Asia ⇄ Europe
Asia to Europe, every box accounted for.
Northline moves full and shared containers, and air cargo, between 48 ports across Asia and Europe. One team books it, clears it and tracks it from the quay to your door.
01 · What we do
One desk, from quay to door.
You speak to the same people from booking to delivery. They hold the space on the ship, file the customs entries and call you before a delay does.
- 01
Ocean FCL
Full 20′, 40′ and 40′ high-cube boxes, weekly from the main Chinese, Korean and Southeast Asian ports to North Europe and the Mediterranean.
Ocean - 02
Ocean LCL
Shared boxes, consolidated twice a week in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore. Pay for the cubic metres you use, not the whole box.
Ocean - 03
Air freight
Express, standard and sea–air uplift from Pudong, Hong Kong, Incheon and Changi into Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Liège and Milan.
Air - 04
Customs & compliance
Export clearance at origin, EU import entries, ICS2 safety filings and duty planning, done by licensed brokers in-house.
Border - 05
Warehousing & cross-dock
Bonded space in Rotterdam and Hamburg for devanning, labelling, pallet storage and onward trucking across Europe.
Land - 06
Reefer & project cargo
Temperature-controlled boxes watched round the clock, plus flat-racks and breakbulk for cargo that doesn't fit in a box.
Special
02 · Day 7 · Singapore Strait
Out of sight. Never out of view.
Every box we book reports its position every fifteen minutes, and a person on our desk reads the report. Port congestion, a missed transshipment or a reefer drifting off its setpoint reaches you as a phone call, not an invoice.
- Position1°13′N 103°55′E
- Speed over ground17.6 kn
- Reefer 40′HC · setpoint−18.0 °C
- Example voyage
03 · The lanes
Sailing every week, both ways.
Fixed weekly departures on the lanes that carry most of the trade between Asia and Europe, with Suez and Cape routings planned before you book.
| From | To | Mode | Transit | Cut-off |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai | Rotterdam | Ocean FCL · LCL | 31–34 days | Fri |
| Ningbo | Hamburg | Ocean FCL | 33–36 days | Thu |
| Shenzhen Yantian | Felixstowe | Ocean FCL · LCL | 30–33 days | Wed |
| Busan | Antwerp | Ocean FCL | 34–37 days | Tue |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Gdańsk | Ocean FCL | 38–42 days | Mon |
| Singapore | Piraeus | Ocean FCL · LCL | 18–21 days | Sat |
| Shanghai PVG | Frankfurt FRA | Air | 1–3 days | Daily |
| Hong Kong HKG | Amsterdam AMS | Air | 1–3 days | Daily |
04 · Air freight
When it can't wait for the sea.
The ship below is on day sixteen. The freighter above left Pudong this morning and lands in Frankfurt before the ship reaches Suez. We book both, so you pick the speed per shipment, not per supplier.
05 · The promise
A container is only a steel box. What we carry is the promise inside it: that it sails on Monday, clears without a query, and reaches your door on the day we said it would.
06 · In numbers
Measured, every sailing.
- 48ports
- Across Asia and Europe, with our own staff on the ground in nine of them.
- 31days
- Shanghai to Rotterdam on our fastest weekly ocean service.
- 2hours
- To a firm, all-in rate on any lane we run, during working hours.
- 96%
- Of boxes delivered inside the promised window in 2025.
07 · Day 31 · Maasvlakte
Your next box, alongside in Rotterdam.
Tell us the lane and the box. A named person on our desk replies with a firm, all-in rate: freight, surcharges, customs and delivery.