Entries lodged before the ship berths

A season’s imports cleared while the ships were still at sea, so boxes left the terminal the day they landed.

Route

Ningbo and Shanghai

→

Felixstowe

Client

Garden and outdoor retailer

Services

Customs clearance · Groupage

Cargo

Garden furniture, full boxes and groupage

The brief

The brief

Spring stock arrives in a rush, and every entry raised after arrival adds days of storage.

What we did

What we did

Our brokers classified the range once, then pre-lodged each entry from the supplier’s documents before arrival, using the retailer’s duty deferment account.

The result

The result

Boxes released at discharge through the season, with no customs holds on cleared cargo.

3 days

entries lodged before arrival

0

customs holds in the season

1 range

classified once, reused all season

Running a lane like this?

Tell us the box, the load port and the door. The desk replies with an all-in rate, usually within the hour.

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