Simple Sea Shipping Process

The simple sea shipping process is essential for handling customs procedures for importing and exporting goods. This involves the transport manager, goods owner, or their agents dealing with customs declarations, document submissions, and inspections. Here are the key steps:

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Consignment

In the sea shipping process, after receiving the sea freight quote, the client decides on packing arrangements. Options include:

Factory Packing: Shipper provides the factory address.

Warehouse Packing: Freight company provides the warehouse address.

The freight company requests customs documents from the shipper.

Booking

The freight company provides cargo details to the shipping company to confirm prices and book space. Once booked, the shipping company provides the vessel name, sailing date, and bill of lading number.

Container Packing

In the sea shipping process, the freight company informs the warehouse of the vessel name and bill of lading number. Containers are picked up from the shipping company’s yard and packed once the goods arrive.

Customs Declaration and Loading

After containers reach the port, customs clearance is done. The shipping company then loads the containers onto the ship.

Unloading

The shipping company unloads the containers at the destination port.

Pickup Notification

In the simple sea shipping process, the shipping company notifies the consignee to pick up the goods.

Customs Clearance

The consignee clears customs.

Document Exchange

The consignee exchanges the bill of lading for a delivery order.

Pickup

The consignee picks up the goods with the delivery order.

Additional Steps

The general process includes confirming prices, accepting the consignment, booking space, arranging transport, notifying the client of loading times, verifying container and seal numbers, returning containers, estimating arrival times, notifying the client of arrival, requesting payment, receiving shipping fees, scheduling delivery from the port, confirming delivery times with the client, and completing the delivery.

This outlines the standard simple sea shipping process.