LESS-THAN-CONTAINER-LOAD (LCL)
Keeping Your Promises & Deadlines
Operating our own in-house network we connect your Less-than-Container-Load (LCL) cargo to any place required around the world. Scheduled departures are managed from door to door to ensure your deadlines – and promises – are kept.
Our Less-than-Container-Load Service
DHL Ocean Connect LCL
Less-than-Container-Load- 2,500 scheduled direct sailings per week to and from all major ports and inland points
- More direct services, cutting transit times to a minimum, and avoiding transshipment and double handling
- A huge variety of pick-up and delivery options
Operating our own LCL network globally, we serve more than 45,000 point pairs with around 2,500 scheduled direct sailings per week, to and from all major ports and inland points.
Managed from end-to-end with our own network experts ensures predictability in our Customer’s supply chains, keeping deadlines, and promises towards the end Customer.
- Planned space protection from every major container port in the world
- Cargo is handled and checked in our own/approved warehouses at all locations
- Scheduled and guaranteed – ‘Shipped as Booked’
- Our services are provided by over 4,000 trained Ocean Freight specialists in more than 330 locations
- Containers are controlled and monitored from loading to arrival
- Dedicated customs experts throughout the DHL network
- All shipments and orders can be tracked 24/7 via the internet
See when the next departures are with our Global LCL Sailing Schedulefor ocean freight
DHL Ocean Assembly
Buyers Consolidation For Single & Multiple Countries- Buyers and sellers consolidation
- Realtime tracking
- Reduced shipping costs vs non-consolidated shipments
Provides customized buyers’ and shippers’ consolidation, so multiple orders can be bundled from various manufacturers in single or multi-country origin locations, and loaded into own dedicated Full Container Load (FCL) containers. As a result the load factors are increased and your costs are reduced.
- Worldwide availability
- Cost efficiency through Customer’s Supply Chain optimization
- Shipment visibility from end-to-end and in real time
- Import/export customs brokerage
DHL Ocean Connect (LCL) Video
Why Choose Us?

No one offers a more complete Ocean Freight solution than DHL Global Forwarding. Our financial strength, consistent track record, scale and reliability means you can count on us to deliver the Less-than-Container-Load (LCL) service you need.
- More direct / bilateral services in LCL, than any other forwarder with access to every major container port in the world
- We operate exclusively managed container freight stations (CFS), both at origin and destination, with DHL defined security processes and procedures
- We have over 4,000 Ocean Freight specialists at more than 330 locations worldwide available to streamline your logistics
- In addition to LCL, our Find out more about service offers single- and multi- country consolidation
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