17 TYPE OF CHARGES CAN BE COLLECTED FOR 1 LOT OF GOODS
1. Charge THC (Terminal Handling Charge) The loading and unloading charge at the port is the charge on each container to offset the costs for port operations such as loading and unloading, container assembly from CY (Container Yard). wharf ... Surcharges for loading and unloading at ports due to shipping lines Then the shipping company takes back the forwarder or the goods owner (the sender or consignee).
Charges: 95 usd / 20’dc and 150 usd / 40’dc
2. Charge Handling (Handling fee): Charge for goods forwarding service or charge for handling imported goods
This fee is usually collected for sea-going goods to pay for transaction fees, ship bookings, handling problems related to sea delivery for that shipment.
This fee is actually set by the Forwarders to collect the Shipper / Consignee. Dai brief handling is the process of a forwarder dealing with their agent in a foreign country to agree on the representation of an overseas agent in Vietnam to perform some tasks such as Manifest declaration with the Customs, issuing B / L, D / O as well as related papers ...
Collection fee is about 25 - 30 usd / shipment.
3. D / O (Delivery Order fee) fee, this is called delivery order fee for imported goods. When there is a consignment imported into Vietnam, Consignee must go to the shipping company / Forwarder to get the delivery order, bring it out to the port to deliver to the warehouse (retail cargo - LCL) / make the new EIR (container - FCL) ticket. get the goods. Shipping lines / Forwarders issue delivery orders (D / O) and collect D / O fees.
Charge about 30 usd / shipment.
4. AMS Fee (Automatic Manifest System) Automatic customs declaration fee. Charge of about US $ 25 / Bill of lading. Information of imported consignments must be reported to the US Customs office 48 hours in advance when the vessel at the transhipment port (Kaohsiung - Taiwan or Singapore) departs to the United States. This procedure has been applied since 2003 and the exporter will be responsible to declare immediately at the loading port. Often, forwarders or shipping lines will help exporters do this due to extremely simple declaration procedures.
5. ANB fee: is similar to AMS fee (Applied to Asia)
6. B / L fee (Bill of Lading fee), Airway bill fee (AWB), Document fee fee (Documentation fee). Similar to the D / O fee but every time there is an export shipment, the Forwarders / Forwarders must deliver a cargo called Bill of Lading or Airway Bill (goods transported by road) ).
Charge about 30 usd / shipment.
7. CFS (Container Freight Station fee) Each time an odd export / import shipment is available, Consol / Forwarder companies must discharge the cargo from the container into the warehouse or vice versa and they charge CFS.
8. Editing fee B / L: (Amendment fee): Only applicable for exported goods, when issuing 1 set of B / L for Shipper, after Shipper takes or because of a reason that needs to be corrected details on the B / L and ask the shipping company / forwarder to correct it, they have the right to charge for editing.
- The B / L editing fee before the ship arrives at the destination port or prior to the manifest at the destination port is usually US $ 50.
- The B / L editing fee after the ship has arrived at the destination port or after the manifest shipping company at the destination port depends on the carrier / Forwarder at the port of entry. Usually no less than 100 USD.
9. BAF (Bunker Adjustment Factor) fee: Charge for fuel price volatility. An extra charge (in addition to sea freight) charged by shipping companies to offset costs incurred due to fluctuations in fuel prices. Equivalent to the term FAF (Fuel Adjustment Factor) ...
- Fee BAF (Bulker Adjustment Factor): fuel surcharge (for Europe route).
- EBS (Emergency Bunker Surcharge): fuel surcharge (for Asian routes).
10. PSS (Peak Season Surcharge) fee: Peak season surcharge. This surcharge is usually applied by shipping lines during the peak season from August to October, when there is a sharp increase in the need to transport finished goods to prepare for Christmas and Thanksgiving Day in the market. American and European schools.
11. CIC (Container Imbalance Charge) fee or "Equipment Imbalance Surcharge" is an imbalance fee for container shells, also known as surcharges for imported goods. It can be understood that this is an extra charge for transferring empty containers. This is a sea freight surcharge that shipping lines charge to offset the costs arising from re-position a large number of empty containers from the surplus to the missing place.
12. General Rate Increase GRI: surcharge of freight (only occurs during peak season).
13. Electricity charge (applicable to refrigerated and reefer containers at ports). must plug into the container to let the container air conditioner run and keep the temperature for cold goods.
14. Cleaning container fee: About $ 5 / Cont 20f, $ 10 / 40f Cont
15. Container storage fee at port yard (DEMURRAGE); Container storage fee at the customer's own warehouse (DETENTION); Port storage fee (STORAGE)
- DEMURRAGE / DETENTION / STORAGE for exports:
* After you contact the port to receive the Container and pull it to your own warehouse for packing
Normally for export goods, you will be taken to a container to be taken to the warehouse before the ship runs ETD (Estimated time of departure) is 05 days. This means that you will be free 5 days DEM (DEMURRAGE) and 05 days DET (DETENTION) provided you have to return the container to the yard before the Closing time specified for the scheduled scheduled ship. If after 5 days you do not return the container to the yard to ship the scheduled ship and the container is in your warehouse, you will have to pay the storage charge at the warehouse (DET). If for some reason you deliver the container to the yard but after Closing time regulations and the goods cannot be loaded onto the scheduled ship. Your goods will be located in the yard and waiting for the next trip, you will have to pay the storage fee at the yard (DEM) and the port storage fee (STORAGE) and the island / container transfer fee.
* In the event that you ship goods at the Port yard, DET will not be counted and DEM will be counted as above.
- DEMURRAGE / DETENTION / STORAGE for imported goods:
After you have completed the import customs procedures and want to return them to a separate warehouse to withdraw the goods, this container will be free of container storage at the port (DEM) and the storage charge at the port (STORAGE). Permitted shipping lines are 5 days from the date of ship arrival. This means you will be free 5 days DEM and 5 days STORAGE. From the 6th day onwards, you will have to pay additional DEM and STORAGE fees (if the goods are still in the port yard) or you will have to pay additional DEM and DET fees if you take the goods to a separate warehouse for unloading after the day. If you withdraw goods at the port yard after 5 days of exemption, you must pay DEM and STORAGE fees.
16. Import freight collection fee (IFB fee) Is the freight of container, retail, cargoes, etc., should be paid at the exporting country by the exporter, but for some reason ( Due to delivery conditions, for example, between exporter and importer, for example), this fee is paid by importer at the destination.
Destination forwarding companies are obliged to charge their agents abroad for freight and return them to those agents.
17. Charge ISF = Importer Security Filing:
Security declaration for importers. In addition to the declaration of US customs information automatically, in January 2010, US Customs and US Border Protection Agency officially applied additional procedures for security declaration for importers (ISF - Importer Security Filing ).
In addition to the same information as the AMS declaration, the procedure for filing an ISF form requires the importer in the United States to provide additional information such as the manufacturer, importer's information (Importer of record number), product code. (Commodity HTSUS number) and the carrier load the goods into the container (Consolidatior). This information is also required to be declared to US Customs 48 hours prior to the vessel's arrival at the port for departure to the United States.
Often the declaration of ISF (Importer Security Filing) will coincide with the declaration of AMS and transport agents that will help the importer declare this information. The cost for ISF declaration is about 25 usd / Bill. (two thousand and thirteen)