Logistics network · Guangdong
Air freight is not a direct flight.
Every forwarder homepage says direct, fast and cheap. What a buyer needs to know is who operates the leg, whether the cargo is consolidated, what the quote leaves out, and what happens when the mode changes after booking. This is the page where those four questions get answers with evidence behind them.
A lane is a claim until there is a waybill on it. We record the difference, and we show the date we last checked.
01Seven roles
Who is actually carrying the cargo.
One company can hold several roles. In a specific order, on a specific lane, it holds one — and that is the one that matters when something goes wrong.
Arranges carriage. May or may not operate anything itself.
Issues its own house bill of lading. A legal status, not a size.
Operates the aircraft, vessel, train or truck.
Builds the consol. Your cargo may wait for someone else’s.
Files the declaration. Separate licence from the forwarder’s.
The party at the destination. Often the one who actually answers.
Runs the warehouse and the hand-offs between modes.
02Route states
Five steps from a slogan to a lane.
A route profile moves up only when the evidence for the next step exists. It can also move down — that is the point of re-checking.
01
Listed route
The company says it runs this lane.
Still openNothing yet. It is a claim on a page, including our page.
02
Documents reviewed
Licences, insurance, agent agreements, rate sheets seen.
Still openThe paperwork exists. The lane may still be theoretical.
03
Route evidence verified
Waybills, AWB/MAWB numbers, segment lists and dates for real shipments on this lane.
Still openThe lane has carried cargo. It does not prove the next booking is direct.
04
Operationally audited
We walked the hand-off: who books, who tenders, who is on the air waybill, who clears, who delivers.
Still openThe chain is understood, including the parts that are subcontracted.
05
Periodically reverified
Re-checked on a schedule, with the last date shown.
Still openThe picture is current. Stop re-checking and it decays.
03Operating model
Self-operated, partner, or subcontracted.
Not a quality ranking. A disclosure. A subcontracted lane can be excellent; it is just a different sentence from "we operate this".
Self-operated
Own account with the carrier, own warehouse staff, own trucks.
Contracted partner
Named partner under a standing agreement. The partner is recorded by name.
Subcontracted
Booked per shipment through another forwarder. Legal, common, and the reason a "direct service" can arrive via a hub.
04Mode compliance
What the order said, versus what moved.
A buyer books air freight and the cargo sails. It happens, it is usually legal, and it is almost always a commercial argument afterwards because nobody wrote down who could change what.
So the order records three consents before anything moves — and one rule for changing them:
05Quote structure
Ten components, and one rule.
The rule: a line that was not quoted is unknown, not zero. Two quotes can only be compared when they cover the same legs.
Illustration of the comparison format, not a quote from any real company.
06What we can and cannot check
Honest about the edge.
- Can check — licence and insurance validity, agent agreements, whether the AWB number on a shipment is real, which carrier it is on, how many segments, who cleared it.
- Can check — whether the quote covers clearance and delivery, and whether the transit time is door-to-door or airport-to-airport.
- Cannot check — a rate that a carrier only honours for a week, or space that is not booked yet.
- Cannot check — what happens on a lane we have never seen a shipment on. It stays at “listed” until we do.
Status today
Forwarder profiles published: 0. Lanes with verified evidence: 0. The schema is built and the first profiles are being collected; we are not going to fill this page with logos to look finished.
Ask about a lane →hello@chinatourslocal.com
07What we do not do
The list that makes the other list believable.
A booking engine
We do not sell the ticket, the container slot or the hotel room. We help you choose and then check what happened.
A laboratory
We do not test materials ourselves. We commission accredited labs and read the report.
A credit score
No algorithm decides whether a factory is good. A person signs a record with a date on it.
A payment escrow
Money movement, guarantees and liability need a licensed entity and a contract. Not this.
A walled garden
Suppliers do not have to buy a shop, an English website or an advert to be listed.
A promise of approval
A subsidy exists when it is in a published notice and you meet every condition in it. We quote the notice.
Lobbying
We have no influence over an approval and will not pretend to.
Every industry at once
Three categories in three cities first. A directory that covers everything verifies nothing.