Advice with skin in the game
The team advising you is the team that will move the goods, so the recommendation has to work in practice as well as on paper.
Foreign Trade Consultancy
Incoterms selection, cost modelling, documentation and compliance advice that removes the guesswork from international trade.
Removing the complexity, not just the freight
As Egeo Logistics we offer professional foreign trade services that help businesses succeed in the global market. As a dependable business partner, we allow our customers to grow by minimising the complexity of international trade — and complexity, not freight, is where most companies lose money on their first exports.
Our consultancy work sits alongside the transport we arrange. The same team that will move the goods advises on how the transaction should be structured, which means the advice is grounded in what actually happens at the border rather than in theory.
Incoterms selection and landed cost
The Incoterms rule you agree decides who arranges transport, who bears the risk at each point, who clears the goods and who pays which charges. Choosing EXW because it looks simple, or DDP because a buyer asked for it, can move thousands of euros of unplanned cost onto your side of the contract.
We model the landed cost for the options you are considering — freight, terminal charges, duty, VAT, insurance and the internal handling each rule implies — so that the commercial decision is made on numbers. Our Incoterms 2020 guide sets out all eleven rules and where each is appropriate.
Documentation and compliance
Export documentation is not administration; it is the evidence that your transaction is what you say it is. Commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, preferential documents, licences and the transport document all have to agree with one another. Where they do not, the shipment stops.
We review the document set before shipment, advise on the preferential origin position, and flag where sanctions, dual-use or product-conformity requirements apply. Cargo insurance is arranged where the Incoterms rule does not already oblige one party to provide it, and we explain what the cover actually excludes.
Market entry support
For companies exporting to a new market for the first time, we advise on the practical questions that decide whether the first shipment goes well: which documents that country demands, how long clearance realistically takes, whether an agent or importer of record is required, and what the total cost of delivery will look like at the customer’s door.
Complexity, not freight, is where most companies lose money on their first exports.
What the service includes
- Incoterms 2020 selection and contract wording
- Landed-cost modelling for import and export scenarios
- Export and import documentation review
- Preferential origin assessment and certification
- Customs procedure planning (transit, inward processing, bonded)
- Sanctions, dual-use and product conformity screening
- Cargo insurance placement and cover review
- New market entry and first-shipment support
The cheapest freight rate is rarely the cheapest shipment
Duty, VAT treatment, demurrage exposure and the Incoterms rule together move the landed cost far more than the freight line does. That is the comparison worth making.
Frequently asked questions
Advice connected to a shipment we are handling — Incoterms selection, document review, landed-cost comparison — is part of the service. Standalone advisory work, such as a market entry study, is quoted separately.
Yes, and it is a question worth asking. Under EXW the buyer is formally responsible for export clearance in the seller’s country, which is often impractical. FCA usually achieves the same commercial split without that problem.
Start with the commodity code and the destination country’s import requirements, because those determine the documents, the duty and the lead time. Send us the product and the destination and we will come back with the practical list.
Why it works
Three things we do differently
Decisions on numbers
Landed-cost models that compare Incoterms options side by side, including duty, VAT and the handling each rule implies.
Compliance before it bites
Origin, licensing and screening checked before shipment, when a correction is still cheap and a delay is still avoidable.
Need a price for foreign trade consultancy?
Send the route, the commodity and the volume. You will get a written offer with the transit time, the inclusions and the exclusions set out clearly.