Think Prime UK Delivery Rate Dashboard

Search buy-side UK final-mile delivery rates by destination. LCL/part-load and FCL are priced on completely different bases, so they're kept as separate modes. Rebuilt 2026-09-02; see caveats at the bottom before quoting.

Shipment type

LCL is priced per pallet or per weight/CBM band by the pallet networks and groupage hauliers. FCL is a whole-vehicle move priced on road miles from the port, so it uses a different supplier and a different rate card entirely.

Step 1 — Goods condition & quantities

Step 2 — Destination & service

Other ports locked until CCC confirms coverage. Only Palletways/Pallex/UPN publish a Premium tier — everyone else is standard-service only.
LCL results — all suppliers, costed the same way
SupplierServiceZoneChargeable basisBase £Fuel £Palletising £Total £ (buy)

Notes & caveats

• All figures are buy-side (cost) rates, ex-VAT, with no margin applied — for sell pricing, add Think Prime's standard margin.
LCL and FCL are separate modes because they're priced on completely different bases. LCL is per pallet or per weight/CBM band across the six groupage suppliers; FCL is a whole-vehicle move from Proactive, priced on road miles from Felixstowe per container (0–500 mile card, £274 to £1,960), plus £25 VBS per container and £50 DVS per container inside the M25.
• FCL distance is looked up from the delivery postcode — the postcode is resolved to coordinates and routed by road from the selected port, which should land close to a Google Maps driving distance. With no internet it falls back to straight-line distance × 1.25 and says so, and in every case the mileage box stays editable, with a typed figure always taking precedence. Beyond 500 miles Proactive's card stops and it's quote-on-request.
• FCL rate cards are held per port. Only Felixstowe is on file (Proactive). Other PODs will still work out the mileage so the lane can be priced the moment a card arrives, but they show no rate rather than borrowing Felixstowe's — port haulage rates don't travel between ports.
• Proactive's fuel surcharge is 17.5% this week, applied to the mileage band rate (not to VBS or DVS). They review it weekly, so re-check before quoting.
• The Proactive card doesn't state whether the rate varies by container size (20'/40'/45') — it reads as a flat per-container price. Worth confirming before quoting a 45'.
• Every row is costed identically: Base + Fuel + Palletising = Total. Base comes from the supplier's own tariff (per discrete pallet × pallet count for Palletways/Pallex/UPN; a weight/CBM band price for the whole shipment for Global Freight, Bridgap and Eagle).
• Current per-carrier figures baked in: fuel — CCC 15%, Eagle 16%, Bridgap 13%, Global Freight not quoted; palletising — CCC £20/pallet, Eagle £15/pallet, Bridgap £15/pallet, Global Freight not quoted. Fuel percentages are reviewed weekly by the carriers, so re-check them before quoting.
• Palletising is the carrier's charge, not ours, and only applies when cargo arrives loose. A supplier with no palletising figure is treated as not offering the service and drops out of the loose-cargo comparison entirely — currently that's Global Freight only.
Pallet exchange at destination is assumed, so no pallet cost is charged on any row. None of the carriers has quoted a non-exchange pallet cost anyway; if a booking genuinely won't exchange empties, that cost sits outside these figures.
• Postcode matching uses the outward code only (area + district, e.g. "SW1" or "IP1") — it does not check inward-code-level exceptions.
• Pallet tier is estimated from L x W x H and weight against CCC's published pallet spec sheet (Micro ≤150kg/60cm, Quarter ≤300kg/80cm, Half ≤600kg/120cm, Full ≤1,200kg/220cm, all on a 120x120cm base) — treat as an estimate, especially for irregular or fragile cargo; confirm with warehouse/ops before booking.
• Loose-carton volume assumes ~80% stacking efficiency on a 120x120cm base — real efficiency varies with carton shape and how well they nest.
• Chargeable weight for the weight-band suppliers uses the higher of actual weight or volumetric weight — Global Freight, Bridgap and Eagle all publish weight bands and CBM bands side by side, and the worse of the two is taken.
• Palletways "LOCAL" zone, Pallex "LOCAL" zone and UPN zone 1 each charge a single flat rate with no Premium/Economy split, per their source tariffs — flagged inline where it applies.
• Eagle shows "POA" above 10,000kg/30m³ and for remote UK/Ireland postcode areas, per their own tariff — contact them directly for those. Eagle's postcode list has one internal ambiguity (PE20 falls in both their Zone 2 and Zone 3 ranges — this tool defaults to Zone 2, first match) worth raising with them, and doesn't model their "N1C" sub-code separately.
• Youngs/Interspan (the ECU-tied combined product) is deliberately excluded — ECU has confirmed that rate is only bookable when the main ocean/air freight is also booked with ECU, so it isn't a standalone comparison point. Eagle Freight Terminal here is their own direct tariff to Think Prime (EFT Tariff Jan 2026), unrelated to ECU.
• Accessorials beyond the Step 3 settings (AM/timed/tail-lift/Saturday/customs, Eagle's Retail Plus/Amazon charges, CCC's handball/timed charges) are not included — see the workbook's "Raw" tabs for the full accessorial schedules per supplier.
• The Liverpool/Manchester rate pairing is still unconfirmed with the hauliers directly — see project notes.
• Source workbook: Think Prime UK Delivery Rates - Working - 2026-08-27 v4.xlsx (Raw sheets per supplier, Fitted Rates, 3-Way Comparison, Pallet Comparison tabs).