Maritime freight forwarder (international maritime freight forwarder) refers to the person who accepts the entrustment of the shipper within the scope of legal authorization and manages the customs declaration, handover, warehousing, allocation, inspection, packaging, packing, transhipment, booking and other business on behalf of the shipper. Maritime freight forwarding belongs to the category of international freight forwarding.
The basic process is: accepting the consignor's entrustment - chartering, booking, loading and assembling port - customs declaration - making bills of lading - sending bills of lading and canceling tax refund documents.
I. Acceptance of Entrustment
Upon receipt of the consignor's entrustment, it should first confirm from the following aspects, including the unit's Customs record (annual examination) at the place of export; whether the declaration documents are complete (the complete set of declaration documents include the entrusted declaration agreement, export goods declaration, packing list, invoice, contract, export receipt and write-off certificate and various customs supervision conditions). Documents; whether all kinds of documents required in customs supervision conditions are complete; what kind of container should the goods be equipped with; whether there are special requirements and so on.
II. Booking
In accordance with the requirements of the shipowner's shipping power of attorney, the shipping company shall implement the shipping space (obtaining ship name, voyage, bill of lading number), loading point, harbour gathering time and place.
III. Container Port
1. Containerization of origin: According to the main requirements of the cargo, the shipping company transports empty containers to the shipper's warehouse or factory to pack the cargo, and then directly transports the containers to the container yard or the direct gathering port.
2. Factory Delivery: The factory or shipper delivers the goods to the container transfer station designated by the shipping company. The transfer station is responsible for loading the goods into the container in turn. When necessary, the shipper should inspect the loading situation at the loading site to prevent short loading or wrong loading.
4. Customs declaration (export customs clearance operation process)
V. Making Bills of Lading
Make the bill of lading according to the relevant contents of the manifest and shipping order, and fax the contents of the bill of lading to the principal to confirm that it is correct, then make the formal bill of lading.
6. Bill of lading and cancellation of tax refund documents
After confirming that the goods have been loaded and shipped, the whole set of bills of lading should be sent to the consignor as soon as possible, so that it has sufficient time to go through the formalities of settlement of foreign exchange.
After the Customs releases, the export tax refund declaration form and the verification and cancellation form sealed by the Customs shall be sent to the client as soon as possible.
