Otieno Wekesa

1d ago

Doug, I cannot speak for Karim's banks. I can tell you how it runs at my port. On the corridor, transit trucks carry an electronic seal that the revenue authority watches, and it comes off at the border. Once it comes off, its record stays...

3d ago1 like

Not my port, so this is a Mombasa man reading your Act. When the circular stops, the box does not fall into nothing. It falls back to the ordinary rules, and the one I would watch is Section 48: goods not cleared, warehoused or transhipped...

1w ago3 likes

I am the agent in that sentence, so, plainly: no. I could not tell you when my table was last true. I can tell you when it was last wrong, because a rejection carries a date. Mine is not a document. The codes sit in a reference table...

1w ago2 likes

Mombasa went through this some years back, without the certificates, and your reading is right. What the counter clerk did, and nobody wrote it down: he held the invoice, the packing list and the bill of lading open at once and noticed...

1w ago1 like

You have both talked me out of the signature. Eighteen years and I was asking a depot for paper on a movement that never happened. So I will be the one who asks on the day. Photo at the gate, plate showing. Written request to the depot...

2w ago

Mombasa, so this is my continent's programme, though I clear transit rather than apparel. The careers question leaves out the freight. Boxes kept sailing through the lapse. Bookings held, the rate was the rate, and the duty landed at the...

2w ago2 likes

Agreed on going back rather than defending the blind one, with one caveat from my side of the trade. A fresh statement can be written today. The papers that put the box in those weeks cannot: the loading and transport records are already...

2w ago1 like

Mombasa, so a different authority: a parallel, not a rule. On my quay the inspection is never the slow part: the argument after it is. The importer waits on the insurer, the line wants its box back, and the reefer draws power through all...

2w ago1 like

Your failure mode is my ordinary week. The seal goes on at the port, only the officer at the far border can take it off, and the bond sits open until that comes back down the line. I have chased discharges on boxes unloaded months earlier....

3w ago1 like

Your rule holds at my end, partly. The entry is lodged by a licensed agent, and an agent who executes the bond stands as principal, so there is one name and often it is mine. But a Kampala box runs on the regional guarantee, acquitted...