Shipping Time from Japan to Hong Kong | How Long
How long does it take to ship packages from Japan to Hong Kong?
Hong Kong is a worldwide hub for ocean freight shipping. It is a huge hub port for many countries in the world. For Japan, Hong Kong is the hub for ocean shipping coming from Japan to various destination around the world.
If you live in Japan or in Hong Kong and have packages you need shipped to Hong Kong as ocean freight, you may wonder how long the shipping time is. If you're using an international moving company or freight shipping company, your packages are sent in consolidation with other shipments going to the same port destination.
The average port-to-port shipping time from Japan to Hong Kong is 4 days. Thus, if your shipment is departing from Tokyo, Yokohama or Kobe on March 2 for the Hong Kong port, the expected arrival date is March 6. The consolidations to Hong Kong are available from the port of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe and Moji /Hakata.
4 key factors that affect shipments' arrival date:
There are also other things to be mindful of when trying to determine what shipping time from Japan to Hong Kong will be:
- Cargo is typically shipped in consolidation, meaning it gets lumped together with other consignments. Shipments forwarded in consolidation are known as "Less-than-Container-Load (LCL). These shipments are placed in consolidation containers days before a ship's next departure date.
- Before any shipments are loaded into containers and begin to move, they must be cleared through Japanese customs and this process takes a few days for preparation.
- Ships depart from Japan to Hong Kong normally twice a week.
- After a ship arrives at the destination port, it can take a few days before it is unloaded. Once uploaded, the shipment is then sent to the container yard and the Container Freight Station, and finally unpacked from the consolidation container and be ready for customs clearance.
When given a shipping time for your packages and considering the above factors, it would be prudent to add two weeks or so before the shipment arrives at its final destination.