freight forwarders
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Overview
Freight forwarders play a crucial role in international trade by managing the logistics of shipping goods across borders. One of their key responsibilities is handling customs clearances, which involves ensuring that shipments comply with all relevant import and export regulations, tariffs, and duties. But customs clearances for Freight Forwarders is often cumbersome and involves a significant amount of paperwork
Challenges Due to Lack of Automation and Digitisation
Manual Processes and Paperwork:
- High Volume of Paperwork: Freight forwarders deal with an extensive amount of paperwork for each shipment, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of origin, and customs declarations. This manual entry for customs clearances is time-consuming and prone to errors.
- Data Entry: Repeatedly entering data into various systems and forms increases the likelihood of mistakes and requires significant time and effort.
- Resource Intensive: The reliance on manual processes requires a significant allocation of human resources to manage the paperwork and compliance tasks. This increases operational costs and limits the ability to scale operations efficiently.
- Increased Error Rates: Manual data entry and handling increase the likelihood of errors, which can result in shipment delays, fines, and reputational damage.
- Time Delays: The time required to process and verify documents manually can lead to delays in customs clearance, impacting delivery schedules and customer satisfaction.
Fragmented Systems:
- Lack of Integration: Often, freight forwarders have to use multiple, unintegrated systems for different aspects of customs clearance, leading to inefficiencies and increased chances of data discrepancies.
- Duplication of Efforts: Information has to be manually transferred between systems, which not only is labor-intensive but also increases the risk of miscommunication and lost data.
Regulatory Complexity:
- Varied Regulations: Different countries have their own customs regulations and requirements, which can change frequently. Keeping up-to-date with these changes and ensuring compliance without automated tools adds to the complexity.
- Manual Updates: Without automated systems, updates to regulations and tariffs need to be manually tracked and implemented, which is both cumbersome and risky.
Communication Bottlenecks:
- Coordination with Stakeholders: Communicating with shippers, carriers, customs authorities, and other stakeholders often involves numerous emails, phone calls, and paper documents, which can lead to delays and miscommunication.
- Lack of Real-Time Information: The absence of digital tools means that freight forwarders may not have access to real-time information about shipment status, customs clearance progress, or regulatory changes, hampering their ability to respond quickly.
Benefits
- Immediate Cost Savings
- Faster Customs Clearance
- Improved Compliance
- Reduced Error Rates
- Full Process Auditability
- Increased Efficiency
- 24/7 Availabillity
Let us change the way you think about customs clearance
faqs
Frequently Asked Questions.
Find out more about working with Azarc to simplify your customs clearance processes
Our system is designed to be as easy to use for operators. There is an initial set up so we can integrate with your systems but our team will work with you to help guide this process.
Our aim is to make the process of creating customs declarations as easy as sending an email. When you go live with our system, you'll see the benefits immediately, allowing you to focus on what is important in your business.
As our system is cloud based, there is absolutely no need to install software locally. Meaning as your business grows and scales, we will be right there with you to help automate your customs clearances
Currently we specialise in handling trade into the UK and will launch our US service in early 2025. We are accredited by HMRC and are connected into the CCS import platform. So if you are importing or exporting to the UK, we can help save you time and money on your customs clearances.
If you have specific countries you import and export too, please contact [email protected]
Yes. We are able to manage Air, Sea and Road freight movements.
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