Overview
Moving cargo, including the cargo that will not fit in a container.
East African freight is a landlocked problem. Cargo arrives at a coastal port and then has to survive the inland transit: a corridor, a border, a customs regime, an exemption process and a road that may not take the axle load. The forwarding is the easy part.
We handle standard sea, air and multimodal movements, and we handle the ones that need engineering: a transformer, a generator set, a plant module, an emergency charter. Project cargo gets a lift plan and a route survey before it gets a booking.
Clearance is a document problem
Classification, valuation and duty exemption processing decide the timeline far more often than the vessel does.
Compliance before booking
HS coding, rules of origin, sanctions and dual-use screening are settled at quotation stage rather than at the border.
Engineer the abnormal load
Heavy lift and break bulk move on a lift plan, a route survey and a rigging method statement, with the cargo insurance structured to match.
Services
What we deliver in this practice
Each line can be commissioned on its own or combined into a single scope of work.
- 01International freight forwardingSea, air and multimodal movements.
- 02Air and vessel charteringFor emergency response and oversize movement.
- 03Break bulk, heavy lift and project cargo engineeringLift plans, route surveys and rigging method statements.
- 04Customs brokerage and clearanceClassification, valuation and duty exemption processing.
- 05Trade compliance advisoryHS coding, rules of origin, sanctions and dual-use screening.
- 06Port agency and ship husbandryBerthing, documentation, crew and vessel support.
- 07Stevedoring and terminal operations managementCargo handling and terminal performance oversight.
- 08Dangerous goods handling and documentationClassification, packing, declaration and segregation compliance.
- 09Bonded warehousing and transit managementCustoms-controlled storage and onward transit administration.
- 10Cargo insurance structuring and claims managementCover designed to the route and the commodity, with claims handled through to settlement.
Standards
The rules this work is held to.
Technical defensibility means working to frameworks a third party already recognises. These are the ones that govern this practice.
- INCOTERMS 2020
- IMDG Code for sea carriage of dangerous goods
- IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations
- WCO Harmonized System nomenclature
- Rules of origin and preferential trade regimes
- Institute Cargo Clauses for marine cover
- Bills of lading and charterparty documentation
Adjacent capability
Work in this practice most often runs into these.
Bring us the constraint, not just the request.
A tender that keeps attracting the wrong bidders, a pipeline nobody can see into, a finding that has to be answered. That is where this practice is most useful.