Your first container to Uzbekistan: how a mixed load is built, line by line

The minimum is per line, not per container

Every offer is written line by line: the technical specification, ingredients and allergens, net weight, carton and pallet data, the tariff position, and the minimum. That minimum belongs to the line and is set per line — never per container.

The sales unit is still a full container or a full truck; there is no groupage. But the box is filled from several lines at once, so a first order need not be a bet on one product: six or seven references can travel together, each at its own line minimum.

How the mixed load is put together

Inside the container the lines stay apart. Each travels on its own pallet, under a single packing list, so a warehouse receives the goods without opening cartons. Pallets are grouped by temperature — chocolate on the cool side, the dry group filling the rest — which is the idea behind a mixed container.

The journey belongs to the forwarder: road or rail, through the corridors in use at the time. Several run through Russia, a structural feature of the network towards Central Asia. The offer names the route it is priced on and the transit time it assumes.

Temperature decides the season of the first order

Chocolate and chocolate-coated products travel at +18/+20 °C. In hot months a refrigerated container is offered for the chocolate side of the load. If a dry container is preferred anyway, the temperature risk passes to the buyer in writing, before loading.

Turkish delight, dragées and sugared almonds, jelly lines and popping candy travel dry all year and fill the remainder once the chocolate is placed. So the loading month shapes the mix: cool months take a larger chocolate share, warm months either book the reefer or lean on the dry lines.

What travels well in a first load

The lines that suit a first container are the ones a shelf explains by itself. Turkish delight with a whole pistachio in the centre, and the kadayıf-wrapped versions, look different from a plain jelly. The filled bar in the Dubai style, pistachio and kadayıf, is asked for by name.

Dragées and sugared almonds are ordered by colour and calibre, not by weight alone, so name the shades and sizes you want; chocolate-coated nut and fruit centres extend the line. Jelly sweets and popping candy come in bulk cartons for the weigh-and-pay counter, and pistachio spread in jars.

Two names to settle before anything is printed

The jar causes the most confusion. It is often looked for under a word that translates as paste — but what we sell is a spread for bread, breakfast and retail jars, not a 100% pâtisserie paste. The pastry material is a different composition at a different price, supplied only on request.

The coating is the second name: a vegetable-fat glaze is not chocolate and cannot be labelled chocolate, so the offer says line by line which is which. Certificates carry our factory's name; we name the holder per line and pass on copies. Uzbekistan applies its own food and customs rules and the importer files the declaration; an EAC mark is not the reference, and the offer states what applies on the day it is issued.

What to send

Send lines, not a general enquiry: the product, the format (bulk carton or retail box), an indicative quantity, and for dragées the colours and calibres. Add the delivery city, the loading month, and whether the label is ours or private label, where nothing is printed without your written approval.

Anything outside the range — couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, empty packaging, baklava, halva, tahini — belongs in the same message and gets a plain answer. A written offer follows in two working days; payment is 50% at order and 50% before the container leaves, against loading photographs (how we work).