Question: Are there any importers/exporters using container tracking devices for any of the shipments for containers? What steps were being utilized to provide customs details to minimize examinations or inspections.? Any guidance would be appreciated? Answer 1: For container tracking, we utilize Pier2Pier. A lot of the freight forwarders use this as well. There is a […]
Question: I was looking to see if anyone in the network would know a service/transportation provider that could assist one of our divisions that wants to ship medical test kits (blood spot cards, instructions and return packaging classified as filter paper for imports), globally to universities, labs and clinics. They do not have a valid […]
Question: Hello, ICPA Members, Does anyone have a list of airlines that will move commodities subject to ITAR? On average, how much more per kg does it cost to move something subject to ITAR compared to commercial commodities when moving through a freight forwarder? I understand market rates fluctuate. For this specific question, lets go […]
Question: We are a sub-contractor on a couple of DOD contracts. They flow down the FAR 52.247-63 and DFAR 252.247.7023 clauses. The parts we use are mostly supplied by our parent company in Italy. They have been flying crates of parts, which has been required to get our stock levels up in order to support […]
Question: We were asked to give our courier account number to a partner company (vendor, supplier, customer etc) so they could ship things to us. Is it common practice to share courier account numbers with people outside of the company? I see this creating the opportunity for people outside our company to use our account […]
Question: I am hoping that someone in this group might be able to respond with their thoughts or comments on blind inland bills of lading. We deal with quite a few dealer / resellers and they like to use blind bills of lading for transport. These are not always accurate and at times show different […]
Question: One of our companies has had an uptick in missing container seals. The missing seals are first realized when the container arrives at the third party warehouse. These are FCL loads from Germany to the US. The freight forwarder has no real explanation but states that the seals are probably being removed while the […]
QUESTION: “How do companies address the consolidation of inland freight fees on either the ocean bill of lading or commercial invoice for CIF customs value for import into Brazil? Timing doesn’t allow us to include the charges on the commercial invoice. Our transportation team engages a NVOCC today to consolidate inland freight charges for inclusion […]
Question: I am trying to explain direct delivery to our logistics and warehouse team. How does it work? And what are the advantages? Does anyone have a real life example of it saving their company time/money/workload?
Question: We have a supplier in China who has loaded a 20’ container with 60,000#,put the container on a charter vessel to Singapore to meet the mothervessel, and when it was put on the mother vessel the shipping line refusedto put the actual weight of the container on the bill of lading. They saythey are […]
Question:Currently, we are not differentiating between the carrier and the scac code, in a vessel sharing situation. Accordingly, if we receive data that shows an APL b/l number, but it happens to be moving on a Mitsui vessel due to vessel sharing, we are showing APLU as the carrier and we are showing APLU as […]
Question: We are beginning to increase our exports significantly. We have come torealize that some of our exports are being diverted by the recipients toother countries or people. Some of this diversion contravenes export regsbut some also contravenes vendor agreements and results into cutting intosales of other distributors or agents that we have agreements with. […]
