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Most searches for a beverage distributor end at a domestic wholesaler: someone who buys locally and resells to you at a margin. If you are importing, the more useful question is a different one — who actually loads the container, and what do they take care of before it sails? This is a guide to…

Almost every guide to buying soft drinks in bulk repeats the same line: beverages are heavy, so you will run out of weight before you run out of space. We shipped a full container of Coca-Cola Company cans and checked the packing list against that claim. It is wrong for a 20ft container — and…

Most buyers who ask us for Coca-Cola expect a conversation about price. The more useful conversation is about what Vietnam actually produces — because a container loaded here does not hold the same drinks you can buy from a European or American source. Vietnam’s Coca-Cola plants make lines built for Asian palates: Fanta Sarsi, Fanta…

Importing food into the United States is not about getting a product “approved” — it is about proving, before the shipment ever reaches the port, that the facility, the paperwork, and the label all meet FDA rules. For an Asian grocery buyer sourcing from Vietnam, the process comes down to three controllable steps and one…

Here’s the question that decides your first FMCG order’s freight bill: do you fill a whole container, or share one? Full Container Load (FCL) gives you the entire box; Less than Container Load (LCL) buys you a slice of a shared one. The wrong choice can double your cost per carton — or leave you…

A 20ft container is rated at about 33 cubic metres and a maximum payload around 28 tonnes (Freightos, shipping container dimensions). Neither number is the one you’ll actually load. Between stuffing gaps, pallet choices and road weight limits, the real answer to “how many cartons fit?” is always smaller — and for some products, it’s…