Standard 3PL, bonded, or both — with the cash-flow math.
Warehousing is rarely just storage. The right answer depends on how long your goods sit, how often they ship out, and whether re-export is on the table. We coordinate partner 3PL and bonded sites in Hamburg, Rotterdam, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Prague — picked per shipment, priced per cbm + per pick.
How long before the goods leave the facility — fast-mover (< 30 days), seasonal (30–180 days), long-tail (180+ days). Drives the storage vs cash-flow trade-off.
If any portion will leave the EU again, bonded keeps duty + VAT unpaid until the final destination is known. Cash-flow lever for samples, returns, transit hubs.
B2B pallet-pick beats e-commerce single-piece on per-order cost. Choice of partner depends on your volume + downstream channel.
Fast-mover, EU-final
Goods cleared on arrival, delivered to a standard 3PL near the destination market. Per-pallet storage + per-order pick fee. Simplest setup.
Transit hub, samples, returns
Goods held under customs supervision; duty + VAT skipped on re-export. Bonded storage premium recovered many times over by the avoided duty.
Seasonal goods, 90+ day hold
Defer duty + VAT for the period the goods sit. The cost-of-capital benefit on €100k consignments + 6-month hold typically exceeds the bonded storage premium.