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You only need to crate your items if they are very fragile and can easily be damaged during normal movement with cargo handling equipment e.g fork lifts. You may also need to crate them if they are of very high value to ensure maximum protection during shipment. Very large shipments may also need to be crated so that all of the customers cargo ships as a single unit.

We build the crates in our warehouse and do not charge you extra for that. We only charge the cost of the material required to build it. Charges for crating can range from as low as $50 for small crates to higher values depending on the size of the shipment.

Simply track your shipment by entering your invoice number or tracking number or airway bill number on the tracking page. Note that only the invoice number assigned to you will work for tracking.

We are a cargo/shipping company licensed by the Nigerian Government and Security Administration and as such can ship cargo or air shipping to virtually any country in the world. For specific rates and details of our service to other locations please send an email to info@ship9ja.com

International air freight involves two types of weights.

1) Actual Weight

2) Volume/Dimensional Weight –

For international air freight, with any company they use whichever is bigger (dimensional or actual). Dimensional is usually explained to most customers by considering one who wants to ship 100 kg of cotton wool. While this is just 100 kg, it may occupy the space of a whole plane, and you will have to pay for the space it occupies, in this case the whole plane. They don’t say because it just 100 kg, that you pay only 100 kg.

To calculate the dimensional/volume weight of a shipment, please multiply the length x width x height (all in inches) and divide the result by 139. This gives the volume weight. If this is more that the actual weight of the shipment, the volume weight will be used in calculating the cost of shipping by air.

Other companies, FedEx etc also have this. Go to Fedex Dimensional Weight and select Calculating Dimensional weights.

For UPS, go to UPS Dimensional Weight and scroll down to calculating dimensional weights for international shipments.

As a check, when you receive each of the packages. Do this. Measure the length, breadth and height (in inches). multiply these to get the Volume and divide it by 166 (same formula used by Fedex/UPS and American AirSea Cargo, and you will get the exact values you have on the invoices. Now, it is not all the time we run into dimensional weight, say about 5% of the time.