UK · USA · Canada · Australia · Korea · Japan → Karachi
Ragtrail connects charity trading arms, collectors and sorting houses with KYB-verified sorting houses in Pakistan: freezone and domestic, duty-compliant, named on every document. No brokers in between. The same verified way of trading now runs through a marketplace, a materials hub and a gems desk.
Step inside a sorting warehouse The industry in 3D 3D container journey
Live 3D scene: a crane working a container ship. Move your pointer to look around.
Active lanes · indicative port-to-port transit
Carrier schedules vary. Red Sea disruption routes via the Cape
UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Korea and Japan, shipping CIF Karachi.
Freezone (EPZ) and domestic duty-paying, fixed before loading.
Six on the seller, six on the buyer, re-screened on every contract.
The verified buyer, on the bill of lading and the goods declaration.
The Ragtrail hub
One platform, many desks. Every figure here is a feature of the site you are looking at.
Ragtrail in numbers
Ragtrail started with secondhand clothing between the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan and Pakistan. The same verified way of trading now runs through a marketplace, a materials hub and a gems desk, and LOXLEY & RHODES makes new clothing to order in Sialkot. Pick the desk that fits what you buy or sell.
Desk 01Unsorted to sorted, verified both ends
Charity trading arms and collectors sell unsorted stock to KYB-verified sorting houses in Pakistan, priced CIF Karachi, with one contract and a tracked container.
Desk 02Graded stock, one invoice
Graded bales, container lots and handpicked bundles from verified sorting houses, sold under the Ragtrail name and shipped worldwide.
Desk 03Sixteen further circular sectors
Plastics, paper, metals, packaging, machinery, renewables, electronics and more. Each sector has its own catalogue, standards and a register-interest form.
Desk 04Specification, provenance, paperwork
Sector 17 connects legitimate suppliers and buyers of gemstones and minerals, with Verdaan Gems & Stones as main supplier. Laboratory reports are used where appropriate.
Desk 05New garments, made to order
Sector 18 is LOXLEY & RHODES, our OEM clothing and sportswear manufacturing brand in Sialkot, Pakistan: custom apparel and private label in imported raw materials.
Stock is collected in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan and Europe, sorted mainly in Pakistan, and sold on to buyers in the Gulf, South and South-East Asia and Africa. Open a market to see the lanes and what we offer there.
Supply origins
Charities and their agents sell unsorted stock to Freezone and domestic sorting houses. Sorting houses sell graded bales through Ragtrail, which lists them under its own name for verified resellers worldwide. The two markets are sealed from each other, which protects price levels and supply on both sides.
Market 1Unsorted stock
Market 2Sorted stock
Our online marketplace for buyers: graded wholesale bales, container lots and handpicked 10 to 50 kg bundles, by department and grade, sold by Ragtrail and shipped worldwide.
Inside a container
Turn the container. Tap a number to see the evidence that travels with every Ragtrail box, from the seal on the doors to the label on each bale.
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Each one is a piece of evidence the buyer sees before paying the balance.
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01 · Container number
Owner code, serial number and check digit, painted on the box. It must match the bill of lading, the packing list and the photos, so a box can never quietly change.
02 · Bolt seal
A numbered high-security seal goes on as the doors close. The number is recorded on the bill of lading and photographed, and the buyer checks it is intact on arrival.
03 · Pressed bales
Each bale carries its grade and weight. The packing list counts every one, so the sort report on arrival can be checked against what was loaded.
04 · Loading photos
Timestamped photos or video at each stage of loading, plus the doors closing on the seal. They go on the trade record before the balance is due.
05 · Verified weight
The gross mass is verified before the box goes on the ship, as international shipping rules require. Net weight drives the invoice, so both sides see the same figure.
Suppliers can't see where their stock really goes. Sorters can't verify who they're buying from. Ragtrail verifies both sides.
Pakistan sorts a very large share of the world's used clothing, and the UK, US, Canadian, Australian, Korean and Japanese collection systems produce far more than they can resell at home. The goods move. The trust doesn't, so it gets bought from brokers, at a price both ends pay.
Supplier side
Trading arms and collectors sell to whoever turns up with a lorry and a price per tonne. Payment terms stretch, weights get argued, and the end destination is a phone number. For a charity, that's a reputational exposure on top of a commercial one.
Sorter side
Duty-paying sorters compete with containers that were under-declared or diverted from bond. Quality claims go nowhere because nobody on the documents can be held to the spec. Honest buyers pay for other people's shortcuts.
Eight origin countries, the ocean lanes into Karachi, then the local leg: port, land freight, warehousing, sorting and re-export. Click a pin or a stage to explore.
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| Material | As the supplier sees it | As the sorter buys it |
|---|---|---|
| Credential clothingCRED | Post-consumer wearable clothing as collected from textile banks, bag collections and shop surplus, before any grading. | The core feedstock for Pakistani sort floors. Bought on cream percentage, shoe and accessory content, and moisture. |
| OriginalsORIG | Unsorted, as-collected stock including footwear, bags and household textiles. Common from US and Canadian collectors. | Sold on a declared composition. Higher non-clothing content is priced in, not argued about after arrival. |
| Mixed ragsRAGS | Lower grades and non-wearables: the stock that can't be retailed but still has a fibre or wiping-cloth market. | For wiper, flocking and recycling lines. The spec states what share, if any, is wearable. |
Twelve checks on every trade: six on the seller, six on the buyer.
The checks are re-run on every contract. Then one rule does most of the work: the verified buyer is the consignee, the importer of record and the payer. A broker has nowhere to stand.
Live vessel tracking
AIS positions for the vessels on our lanes into Karachi, and the ship carrying your container inside the portal.
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Ragtrail Portal
KYB, buying specs, lots, firm offers, documents, payments, claims and end-destination reports, for suppliers and sorters.
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Tokenization
Fingerprinted trade records today; financeable container tokens with licensed partners next.
How it works
Big buyers expect firm terms, paperwork and someone accountable. These are the standards every Ragtrail trade runs on, whichever desk it comes through.
Business checks (KYB) on every seller and buyer before any trade, and a site visit for sorting houses.
A firm offer, agreed in writing, instead of a quote that moves while the container is at sea.
Bundles from 10 kg, single bales, lots, and full or shared 40ft containers.
Invoice, packing list, bill of lading, fumigation and origin papers, each one fingerprinted on upload.
Pro forma invoice, then deposit and balance by PayPal, card or bank transfer.
View prices in USD, GBP, EUR, PKR, JPY, AED, AUD and CAD, in English, French or Arabic.
Live vessel position and stage-by-stage tracking from loading to delivery.
If the goods do not match the specification, raise a claim within the agreed window.
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