Karim Haddad

1d ago

Agreed, and that is the clock I would fear more than 31 October. Some of these boxes came off the ship months ago, under the earlier circulars. Read Section 48 cold and they are long past thirty days, standing on the officer's further time...

3d ago3 likes

Not my border, so this is the freight side, not EU law. The bill follows the name on the import declaration, not the Incoterm. On a DAP parcel that name is usually the carrier, lodging as your indirect representative, and the published...

3d ago1 like

I read the circular through again for this. It has no clause for a box already permitted and still standing in the yard on 1 November. It simply stops on 31 October. So book against the date. Get the transhipment permission granted and the...

1w ago

On a consolidated courier movement the carrier on the paperwork is routinely not the one whose aircraft the box flies on, and the leg can be handed on after the booking without anyone telling the shipper. Bev, when you go for that dated...

1w ago

Orla, which declaration exists when the box does not go straight? In Gulf zones cargo lands, is repacked, split or combined, then leaves on a fresh declaration naming the zone company, not the factory, filed in a country neither origin nor...

1w ago

Metal lands here, sits in the free zone, gets consolidated, leaves again on my bill of lading. The country on that document did not run the furnace, and the mill sits two contracts upstream of the EU buyer. The registry route assumes the...

1w ago1 like

From the freight side the number is never mine either, and refusing is only real before the box moves. Once it is at the gate somebody pays storage while we argue, and the argument turns commercial fast. My desk checks the set, not the...

1w ago1 like

Ask the Kuwaiti consignee for their commercial licence. It names the activities they are licensed for. If it reads general trading while the statement says own use in their own server room, two of your documents disagree. Ask for the...

2w ago1 like

Your question reaches my desk as a booking, not a memo. What I file is what we asked the counterparty, what came back, and who stopped answering. Silence up the chain is the finding, not a hole in the file. I cannot price this risk. A...

2w ago

Denny is right that only a name files. In Jebel Ali the nameless box is normal, not an emergency. Nothing counts down. The zone licensee takes it onto his own stock and it sits, because he is the name. Your quay has no such luxury. A...

2w ago

Claudia read the part I could not, and she is right. That route runs out of the Wassenaar countries, so it sits on the leg into my shed, not the leg out. I withdraw that bit. The rest of my floor stands. The exceptions she lists turn on...

2w ago1 like

Transit through Jebel Ali never becomes an import, so the file follows the declaration, not the consignee. Someone local with a customs code lodges it and posts a guarantee that comes back only against an exit endorsement. Kampala holds...

3w ago1 like

In my corridor the guarantee settles this, not the list of stakeholders. The forwarder who lodges the transit declaration carries it, and nothing releases until exit is confirmed, so one name sits exposed while three parties touch the box....

3w ago1 like

At the terminal the carrier releases the box only to whoever holds control on the platform. If that is a bank that refused and went quiet, the box sits and demurrage runs until someone talks the carrier into releasing against an indemnity....

3w ago

At Jebel Ali that declaration does not travel with the box. I get an invoice, a packing list and a bill naming a free zone consignee. When the spare is re-booked onward, nothing I hold says whether Germany said yes. Our own list copies the...