Over the past two weeks we have contacted many shipping agencies, and have reduced these down to two.
The costs for each are detailed below:
Ben Line / Rado Shipping
Ocean Freight: Nil / 25.00 *1
Documentation Charges: 50.00 /543.00 *2
Customs clearance charges: 70.00 / -
Labour Charges: 90.00 /-
Handling Charges: 50.00 / 86.96
Container Movement: 180.00 / -
Terminal Handling Charges (THC): 85.00 / 90.00
B/L: 30.00 / 21.74
Carnet:
70.00 -
Sub total: 625.00 / 741.70
Service Tax
81.25 / 96.42
Total 706.25 / 838.12
*1 Ocean Freight is Nil, for Benline included in the price
*2 Includes Customs Clearance, cargo lashing and choking into containers
transport Charges and Container Lift on/off charge
In the end we choose to go with Benline shipping, who have been established for over 150years, and are a global shipping company, who can provide us shipping for Australia and South America too through Swire shipping.
The process of packing and clearing the shipment will take us 2-5 days, with the shipping taking another 5 days.
Contacts
Nandan
Ben Line Agencies(India)Pvt.Ltd
M.A.Chidambaram Building,2nd Floor
#6,Esplanade,Chennai-600108,India
Phone : +91-44-60607575
Dir No : +91-44-65454515
E.mail :
maa.sales@benlineagencies.com
Rado Shipping Agencies Pvt Ltd.,
No.108, Armenian Street, Ist Floor,
Chennai 600 001
Tel.No. 25394710 / 25394720 / 25390669
website :
www.radoshipping.com
Email:
ramesh@radoshipping.com
We are just about to ship, so if anything changes we will update it here.
Martin & Nicole