Shipments Held Back At Customs
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:22 am
In both air and ocean freight shipping, the business exporting is required to provide an estimated shipment weight to the logistics partner or airline/shipping line. When the delivery carrier partner moves your shipments to the port for loading and checks for actual shipment weight, the exact weight should be in the perimeter of the estimated weight declared. If it doesn’t match, your carrier airline can stop loading the misdeclared package. The customs can also retain or hold the shipment at their warehouse if they find out the weight doesn’t match with the declared value.
Checklist To Minimise Shipment Weight Discrepancies
Accurate Measurement Of Volumetric Weight
The correct way to calculate volumetric weight of shipments is by multiplying the senegal phone number list length, width, and height of your package in cms and dividing that number by 5000. In some cases, it is also divided by 4000. Please note that this should be done after the parcel is packaged, because the weight of the product differs distinctly between parcel with and without package.
Check For Irregular Packaging
Few types of packaging methods are irregular from cover to cover, for example in cases of tubes and poly bags. Such packaging ought to be measured in cubic metres. Since cubic measurements are not always accurate, having an automated dimensional analysis system in place helps to reduce any extra weight to the package due to the packaging.
Checklist To Minimise Shipment Weight Discrepancies
Accurate Measurement Of Volumetric Weight
The correct way to calculate volumetric weight of shipments is by multiplying the senegal phone number list length, width, and height of your package in cms and dividing that number by 5000. In some cases, it is also divided by 4000. Please note that this should be done after the parcel is packaged, because the weight of the product differs distinctly between parcel with and without package.
Check For Irregular Packaging
Few types of packaging methods are irregular from cover to cover, for example in cases of tubes and poly bags. Such packaging ought to be measured in cubic metres. Since cubic measurements are not always accurate, having an automated dimensional analysis system in place helps to reduce any extra weight to the package due to the packaging.