How to Choose a Customs Broker in India: 10 Questions to Ask
Your customs broker signs declarations in your name and your liability survives their mistakes. Price is the easiest thing to compare and the least useful. Here is what to ask instead.
Logistics Operations
Choosing an ICD: Tughlakabad, Patparganj or a Gateway Port?
For a Delhi NCR importer the choice between clearing inland and clearing at the gateway port changes your transit time, your demurrage exposure and your transport bill. It is worth deciding deliberately.
Bonded Warehousing: Deferring Duty on Imported Goods
A bonded warehouse lets you land goods now and pay duty later — sometimes much later. For importers holding stock against uneven demand, the cash-flow effect is significant.
Project Cargo Handling: Moving Oversized and Heavy-Lift Shipments Safely
A transformer that will not fit under a flyover is not a transport problem you solve on the day. It is a route survey you should have run six weeks earlier.
How to Reduce Demurrage and Detention Charges on Import Containers
Demurrage and detention are charged daily, escalate in slabs, and are almost never waived. Nearly all of it is avoidable with decisions made before the vessel arrives.
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