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Practical export guides & free tools for exporters.
Understand the export process, prepare for your next shipment and put the numbers to work—with practical guides, calculators and resources.
Start with the Export Documentation guide or use the CBM Calculator to check shipment volume.
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New to exporting? Take it step by step.
For first-time and small exporters, merchant exporters and manufacturers building their export knowledge.
Start with our Export Documentation guide. The starting-business and shipping topic collections are in preparation.
Understand the process
Start with the export business topic and build your understanding one step at a time.
Explore the topic 02Prepare your paperwork
Understand common documents, their roles and the details to check before shipment.
Explore the topic 03Plan your shipment
Find the shipping and freight topic, then use the CBM Calculator to work out volume.
Explore the topicOur first guide collection
Export Documentation
Make sense of the paperwork behind a shipment.
Read practical explanations of common export documents, how they fit into the process and what to check before a shipment moves.
Explore Export DocumentationPillar guide available
A clear path through the paperwork
- Understand what each document is for
- See how documents connect to a shipment
- Know which details to verify
Explore five document guides covering invoices, packing, customs declarations and origin evidence.
Free export tools
A useful calculation. A clear result.
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CBM Calculator
Calculate cubic metres for a shipment of identical packages. Enter length, width, height and quantity to see volume per package and total CBM.
- cm, metres, mm, inches or feet
- Converted dimensions and a calculation breakdown
- No account needed
A quick example
50 × 40 × 30 cm
10 identical packages
0.60 CBM
Total shipment volume
Explore export guides
Build knowledge around your next question.
Read the Export Documentation guide. Other categories below are topic pages with guide collections in preparation.
Export Documentation
Documents and checks for your shipment.
View topicStarting an Export Business
A starting point for your export journey.
View topicIncoterms
Delivery terms and responsibilities.
View topicShipping & Freight
Moving goods from origin to destination.
View topicCustoms
Customs processes and preparation.
View topicExport Payments
Understanding international payment methods.
View topicHS Codes
Getting familiar with product classification.
View topicExport Costing
Understanding the costs behind a shipment.
View topicWhy ExportMiya
Built around practical questions.
Practical explanations
Our guides aim to explain the process in plain language, with examples that help you apply it.
Free calculators
Start with the CBM Calculator. See the inputs, conversions and steps behind your result.
Structured learning
Follow topic areas from starting a business through documentation, shipping, payments and costing.
Verifiable information
We focus on useful information with sources you can check. Our calculator guide links to its measurement references.
From the guide library
Latest guides
Certificate of Origin for Export: Meaning, Types & India Process
Learn what a Certificate of Origin is, preferential and non-preferential types, Rules of Origin, and the high-level process for exporters in India.
Read the guideCommercial Invoice for Export: Meaning, Format & Example
Learn what a commercial invoice is, the fields commonly included, how it is used in export shipments, and see a practical commercial invoice example.
Read the guidePacking List for Export: Meaning, Format & Example
Learn what an export packing list is, the fields commonly included, how it differs from a commercial invoice, and see a practical example.
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