UK · USA · Canada · Australia → Karachi
Secondhand clothing, traded on verified terms.
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.
- KYB on both sides
- Price fixed before loading
- Payment to your own account
- Documents on every container
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
- UKFelixstoweEnglish Channel · Suez · 24 to 30 days
- USANew York / New JerseyNorth Atlantic · Suez · 30 to 38 days
- USALos Angeles / Long BeachTrans-Pacific · Malacca · 35 to 45 days
- CanadaMontrealSt Lawrence · Suez · 35 to 42 days
- CanadaVancouverNorth Pacific · Malacca · 35 to 45 days
- AustraliaMelbourneSouthern Ocean · Indian Ocean · 22 to 30 days
UK, USA, Canada and Australia, 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.
Buy unsorted. Sell sorted. Never mixed.
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
Inside a container
What a buyer is actually paying for.
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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Tap a numbered point on the container
Each one is a piece of evidence the buyer sees before paying the balance.
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01 · Container number
One number on every document
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
Sealed at the yard, checked at Karachi
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
Strapped, labelled, counted
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
Empty, half full, full, sealed
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
Weighed before it sails
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.
Two sides of a large trade, and very little either can verify about the other.
Suppliers can't see where their stock really goes. Sorters can't verify who they're buying from. Ragtrail verifies both sides.
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Pakistan sorts a very large share of the world's used clothing, and the UK, US, Canadian and Australian 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
Stock building up, and no way to know where it really goes.
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
Supply arrives through brokers who don't carry the risk.
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.
Follow a container from the warehouse to re-export, in 3D.
Six 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.
Play the 3D journeyOrigin countries · Ocean lanes · Karachi port · Land freight · Warehousing · Sorting · Re-exportClose the 3D journey
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, click the stages along the bottom. Open full screen
One container, five stages, one standard the whole way.
Credential, originals and mixed rags, described the same way at both ends.
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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. |
A trade record only exists when both stacks are complete.
Twelve checks on every trade: six on the seller, six on the buyer.
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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.
Tools that go further than a phone call and a price per tonne.
Live vessel tracking
Follow the ship, live
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
Every container in one place
KYB, buying specs, lots, firm offers, documents, payments, claims and end-destination reports, for suppliers and sorters.
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Tokenization
Containers as digital assets
Fingerprinted trade records today; financeable container tokens with licensed partners next.
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