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Importer’s checklist

7 places where you are losing money

A $100 discount on a container feels good. Meanwhile your finance director is counting the losses. Below are the 7 places where money leaks most often, even when the rate is “good”. Tick what you actually have in place — and see your score.

14 questions · maximum 100 points · ~3 minutes

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Tick the items to see your result
1

A cheap rate ≠ a profitable shipment

A line that is $150 cheaper may run twice as badly on schedule — and eat the whole saving with two weeks of idle time.

2

Demurrage you are the last to hear about

The container has arrived and is quietly ticking. The free days are over, and nobody told you.

3

An invoice that is “slightly” bigger

You agreed on one amount, and at the end it grew. THC, storage, an idle-time penalty.

4

You are shipping air

Half the container is air, and you pay for the whole one. Sailing after sailing.

5

A warehouse stuffed “just in case”

When the schedule can’t be trusted, you insure yourself with stock. And that is 15–30% of its value a year, frozen on the shelves.

6

Paperwork done on the run

Documents are done in a hurry, and it surfaces at the border — idle time, a fine, additional charges.

7

Five contractors — and nobody responsible

Everyone is responsible for their own piece. Something went wrong — there is nobody at fault, there is “force majeure”.

What your score means

80–100Logistics is under control. You are playing the long game.
50–79Workable, but there are holes where money and time leak.
under 50Logistics is quietly eating your turnover. There is definitely something to get back here.

Didn’t score much? That is not a verdict, it is a map of where to dig.

In half an hour of a free check-up we’ll go through your setup and show where and how much you are losing. We sell nothing — we just show.

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