Your cargo doesn't fill a container. Your service shouldn't shrink.

LCL — less than container load — lets you ship pallets and crates without buying the whole box. PNM Egypt consolidates your cargo with other shippers' freight into shared containers on the main lanes serving Egypt, both import and export, with fixed weekly consolidation schedules through our partner CFS stations.

The catch with LCL elsewhere is handling: more touches, more places to lose a crate. Our answer is measurement discipline (verified weights and dimensions before stuffing), photographed handovers, and one house bill per customer that our own team follows from CFS to CFS.

The economics are simple once you see how the box is billed. FCL is priced per container whether you fill it or not; LCL is priced per CBM under weight-or-measure rules — you pay on the greater of volume in cubic metres or weight in tonnes. That makes LCL the rational choice at roughly 1–12 CBM. Approaching 13–15 CBM, the per-CBM charges, double handling and extra days usually add up past the cost of your own 20-foot container — and when you are near that line, we price both options and tell you which one wins.

Egyptian LCL imports carry the same regulatory weight as full containers: each house bill needs its own ACID registration on the Nafeza platform before shipment, and each consignee clears customs independently after the container is devanned at the destination CFS. We pre-file while the box is at sea and book your clearance against the devanning date — because an LCL shipment that waits on paperwork pays warehouse rent by the day.