What brands ask before appointing a C&F agent.

No. We are a carrying and forwarding (C&F) agent: we hold your stock in our warehouses and dispatch it to your distributors and dealers. We don’t handle customs clearance, imports or exports.

Older tax law called this work clearing and forwarding, but today the term usually means customs clearance. We are a carrying and forwarding agent for brands, and we don’t handle customs.

Your company owns the stock throughout. Our warehouse is registered as your additional place of business under GST, and invoices to your distributors go out in your name.

While your stock is with us, shortages and damage are usually the C&F agent’s responsibility, at the rate agreed in the contract. We agree the terms and the insurance before the first stock arrives.

C&F agents are usually paid a percentage of the value dispatched, a rate per case or per tonne, or a fixed monthly fee. We quote once we understand your volumes and the states you cover.

Yes. Receipts, bills and stock movements are posted in your system, so your team sees the same numbers we do.

[Time to confirm] from signing to the first dispatch, depending on space, licences and access to your system.

Yes. We plan the stock transfer with your team and the outgoing agent, so dispatches to your distributors continue while the stock moves to our warehouse.

Yes. We added Indore and Bengaluru in 2025, and we can set up where your distributors need stock. [Lead time to confirm]

Yes. Share your requirement or call us, and we’ll arrange a visit to our Aslali warehouse.

Often, yes. Tell us what the stock is and how it must be stored, and we’ll tell you plainly whether it fits our warehouses.

Yes. Our pharma stock is held under a wholesale drug licence, and we keep the records an inspector asks for. [Licence numbers and forms to confirm]

A 2–8 °C cold room for vaccines, insulin and other cold-chain products, an air-conditioned cool room, and refrigerators kept between 8 and 25 °C.

India’s Drugs Technical Advisory Board agreed in February 2026 to make Good Distribution Practices binding for stocking licensees, but the final rules are not yet notified. We are preparing our pharma storage for them now.

Yes. Fans, coolers and water heaters sell in seasons, so we plan space and staff with you ahead of each peak. [Peak capacity to confirm]