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Where an export shipment is exposed, from packing and storage to transit, insurance and documents. Close each gap before it costs you. Rasp International plans the chain and coordinates vetted packing, transport, forwarding and customs broker partners across India.
An export supply chain is every step between your production line and your buyer’s warehouse: packing, storage, inland transport, customs, the main voyage or flight, arrival and payment.
Losses rarely happen inside one step. They happen at the handovers, where the goods pass from one party, document or insurance cover to the next and nobody owns the gap.
Verified as on 24 September 2026 against ISPM 15 (IPPC), the Institute Cargo Clauses (A), (B) and (C) of 1 January 2009, the National Time Release Study 2025 and PIB releases on the National Logistics Policy.
Export supply chain management is planning and controlling how goods, documents and risk move from the factory to the buyer. For an Indian exporter it covers export packing that meets import rules such as ISPM 15, storage, road or rail transport to the port, customs clearance, the main carriage, marine insurance and the documents the bank and buyer need.
The rule that decides everything: risk, insurance and documents must change hands at the same point. Where one ends before the next begins, the loss falls on you.
Standard cargo clauses exclude loss caused by insufficient or unsuitable packing done by the insured or its employees, and packing includes stowing a container. A box badly stuffed at your own factory can leave you with an uninsured loss even with a valid policy.
Rasp International does not run warehouses, trucks or vessels. We map your chain, brief the packing, transport, forwarding and customs partners in our network and check that risk, cover and documents line up at every handover.
This is the path a sea export takes. Each stage names the risk that sits there and the page that covers it in detail.
Agree the Incoterm, payment method and delivery date. Plan backwards from the vessel cut-off, not forwards from the production date.
Pack for the full journey, use ISPM 15 marked wood and mark each package to match the packing list. Poor packing is excluded from cover.
Goods waiting at a warehouse are not yet in transit, so check whether your policy covers them there.
Road or rail to the ICD or port, with the VGM filed and the e-seal number on the shipping bill. See container transportation.
A licensed broker files the shipping bill and customs gives the Let Export Order. See customs clearance.
The vessel or aircraft leg under the bill of lading or air waybill. See freight forwarding.
Documents reach the buyer or bank, the buyer clears the goods and you are paid. Your refunds follow the export manifest.
Shipping soon and not sure where your cover starts or ends? Send us your Incoterm and policy on WhatsApp for a quick gap check.
Exporters selling EXW hand the whole chain to the buyer at their gate. Small courier consignments travel door to door under the courier’s own process.
Each link is run by a vetted partner and checked by our team.
Mode, Incoterm and bill of lading choices.
Factory stuffing, VGM and gate-in.
ODC permits and breakbulk shipping.
Shipping bill, LEO and refunds.
Certificates your buyer’s market asks for.
Cover for the buyer not paying, which cargo insurance does not give.
ISPM 15, the international standard for wood packaging, applies to crates, boxes, packing cases, pallets, dunnage and cable drums made of raw wood. Treated wood carries a mark with the IPPC symbol, the country code, the producer or treatment provider code and the treatment code.
In India, treatment providers work under the authority of the National Plant Protection Organisation, as ISPM 15 requires. Buy pallets only from a supplier whose mark you can trace.
Most cargo policies use the Institute Cargo Clauses of 1 January 2009. Clause (A) covers all risks except those excluded. Clauses (B) and (C) cover only named events.
Incoterms 2020 sets the minimum when you insure for the buyer: Clause (C) under CIF and Clause (A) under CIP. You can always buy more than the minimum.
Under the transit clause of the 2009 wordings, cover starts when the goods are first moved in the warehouse for immediate loading onto the vehicle that begins the transit. It ends at the first of these:
So goods sitting in your factory store before dispatch, or parked in a truck for days, may not be covered. Ask your insurer to extend cover for those periods in writing.
Foreign Trade Policy 2023 para 2.06 names three mandatory export documents. The others depend on your terms and product.
Each failure below sits at a handover between two parties.
This is an illustrative composite, not a named client. A marble exporter near Agra ships slabs on local pallets bought cheaply for one order. The pallets carry no ISPM 15 mark. At the destination the wood is refused and the slabs must be repacked at the exporter’s cost. Buying marked pallets from a traceable supplier would have cost less than the repacking.
The National Logistics Policy, launched on 17 September 2022, aims to bring logistics costs to global benchmarks and lift India into the top 25 of the World Bank Logistics Performance Index by 2030. A PIB release of 16 September 2025 reports progress that exporters can use:
For an exporter, the practical gain is visibility. Ask your forwarder for tracking tied to these systems rather than status by phone.
Packing and marking, storage, inland transport to the port or ICD, customs clearance, the main sea or air leg, insurance and the documents the bank and buyer need. Arrival handling is included when you sell on delivered terms.
No law makes it compulsory for every export. It becomes your duty when you sell CIF or CIP, or when a letter of credit asks for an insurance document. Without cover, a loss in transit before risk passes is yours.
Clause (A) for most manufactured and fragile goods, since it covers all risks except exclusions. Clause (C) is the CIF minimum but covers only major casualties such as fire, sinking and collision.
ISPM 15 is the international standard for wood packaging. It applies to pallets, crates and dunnage made of raw wood, which must be treated and marked. Plywood and other processed wood are exempt.
No. ISPM 15 exempts packaging made wholly of processed wood such as plywood, particle board, oriented strand board or veneer. Keep proof of the material in case the buyer’s border asks.
Under the 2009 transit clause, it starts when goods are first moved in the warehouse for immediate loading. It ends at the final warehouse, on storage outside ordinary transit or 60 days after discharge, whichever comes first.
No. All three Institute Cargo Clauses exclude loss caused by delay, even when an insured event caused the delay. Plan realistic dates instead.
Customs is the short part. NTRS 2025 measured 187 hours 27 minutes on average from arrival at a seaport to departure, of which 157 hours 50 minutes came after the Let Export Order. Add your inland transit time.
ULIP is the Unified Logistics Interface Platform under the National Logistics Policy. It connects more than 30 government logistics systems through APIs so that service providers can share tracking and status data.
No. Packing, storage, transport and freight are provided by vetted partners in our pan-India network. We plan the chain, brief the partners and check that risk, cover and documents line up.
Rasp International is an ISO 9001:2015 certified EXIM and DGFT advisory firm in Agra with more than 500 exporters served. We map each shipment from the production line to the buyer, choose the partners for each leg and check the handovers where cover and documents usually break.
New to exporting? Read how to start exporting from India, or see the full partner network on our customs house agent services page.
Send your Incoterm, packing plan and insurance policy. We will show where risk, cover and documents do not meet.
This page is general guidance. Standards, policy wordings and carrier terms change. Verify against the current standard, your policy wording and your contract before you ship.
Related: freight forwarding and Incoterms, container transportation, certificate of origin and the logistics hub.
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