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Carton Planning Is Freight Savings

The cheapest freight gain is rarely a new carrier. It is packing the same product into fewer, better-filled cartons.

Marek Dvořák · Head of QualityPublished

Freight is priced on volume and weight, and most apparel shipments pay for air they never use. Carton planning is the unglamorous lever that moves both the cost and the carbon.

What poor packing costs

A carton sized for the worst-case garment, packed loose, leaves void that you pay to ship twice — once outbound, and again if it comes back as a return.

  • Oversized cartons inflate cubic volume and the rate that follows it.
  • Loose packing lets garments shift, raising damage and rejection risk.
  • Inconsistent cartons slow put-away at the DC and inflate handling cost.

The planning that pays

We plan cartons to the garment, optimise fill, and apply barcodes and retail-ready folding so the box the factory seals is the box the warehouse receives without re-work.

A few centimetres of void per carton, multiplied across a container, is a measurable fraction of the freight bill. Pack it once, pack it right.

How we do it

Carton planning is part of the finishing step, not a warehouse afterthought. Recyclable and compostable pack options are available, and DC-ready despatch means your 3PL receives without re-handling.

Tags

  • packaging
  • freight
  • carton
  • fulfilment

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