If you look after a yacht on the Riviera and lose the work every winter, we can put your flowers on board wherever the boat goes, under your name. You keep the client and the design. We run the permits, the certification, the freight and the agent at the other end.
Nothing we send carries our name. Your client never hears from us, and never needs to.
Your client tells you what she wants and where the boat will be. Your relationship, your design, your price.
Species, quantities, port and date. We come back with a cost and a schedule, usually the same day.
Import permit, phytosanitary certificate, air waybill, and an agent at the destination who handles customs.
Dockside, cold, in numbered boxes. Nothing your client sees carries our name.
You invoice your client as normal. We invoice you, itemised, with freight at cost.
48 hours’ notice, then one to two days in the air, so about three days from your message to the passerelle. Shipments start at 100 kg volumetric and we ship Monday to Friday only.
Read this before you quote anyone. Most of these ports need an import permit, and it has to be granted before a single stem is bought. That takes 5 to 7 working days, so a first order into one of them is about two weeks, not three days. Quote three days on a first order and you will be a week and a half short in front of your own client.
The other half of that sentence matters just as much, so say both: the permit is needed once a season. It fixes a species list, stays on file, and every order after it goes through at the normal three days, Monday to Friday. In the Caribbean it takes 5 to 7 working days; in the Maldives, the Seychelles and Phuket, one to two weeks. Tell your client to plan the permit once and every order after it is fast, and you have sold the service rather than apologised for it.
No agreement to sign and no volume to commit. Send us one shipment this winter and see how it goes. If it works, we do the next one.