Welcome to Australian Trade & Shipping, New Zealand Shipping and Australia Trade Marine Insurance.
We provide International Sea Freight Shipping Services, Air and Sea Cargo Transit Insurance and our network of independent licensed Customs Brokers facilitate the Customs Clearance and Quarantine Clearance for Commercial Goods and Personal Effects to and from over 100 ports worldwide.
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Importing:
You are better to use a postal service if your goods are:
Valued at less than $1,000.00 landed price (Cost of goods plus the cost of shipping),
Weighs less than 20kg, is under 1m in length and less than 1.4 metres in girth.
If it doen’t meet these requirements contact us.
For goods over $1,000 in value:
- You will be required to apply for an Owners Code.
- Ask your overseas agent to put Australia Trade and Shipping as the notify party and email us the Bill of Lading / Express Release Waybill to info@australiatrade.com.au(see local phone numbers at the bottom of the page)
- A minimum of 4 documents will be required to be scanned and emailed:
- Commercial Invoice
- Packing List
- Packing Declaration
- Waybill
- Other documents maybe required depending on what is being imported.
- For vehicles you will require an import permit, you may be required to have the refrigerant removed from the air-conditioning system prior to shipping and a degas certificate to accompany the documentation.
- Importing second-hand equipment will require an AQIS import permit, a cleaning and / or fumigation certificate.
- Other certificates like agricultural products will require an import permit, Dangerous goods certificates, and mosquito declarations are available.
Contact us to discuss import permits, quarantine requirements etc.
- Once the shipment arrives we will send you a variety of disbursement invoices that require immediate payment.
- For small freight we seriously recommend you pick up from the bond store once goods become cleared by customs and quarantine and your disbursement invoices are paid and cleared by our bank.(We do not accept credit cards. Best method is internet banking)
Import Commercial Goods :
For full container (FCL):
- We book in wharf and container park slots. (booking fee involved)
- We arrange customs and quarantine import clearance.
- You pay customs import duty and import GST
- We or you pay the shipping companies terminal landing fees
- We pick up full container from wharf and cart to your commercial premises, provided you are located in the metro area of the port
- You must provide free and open access for the container truck to enter and place full container on ground
- You may be required to obtain a permit from council
- You unpack
- We pick up empty container from your commercial premises and cart to metro city container park for dehire.
For share a container (LCL) cargo:
- We or you pay the consolidator’s landing charges for getting full container off wharf to the metro bond store and unpack the container
- We arrange customs and quarantine clearance
- You pay customs import duty and import GST
- We are given a delivery order in order for you to collect your goods from Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Fremantle customs bond stores and take to your commercial premises.
Export Commercial Goods :
For full container (FCL):
- We deliver a container to your commercial premises.
- You must provide free and open access for the container truck to enter and place empty container on ground
- You may be required to obtain a permit from council
- You pack and create a packing list.(see side menu to download a form)
- We can also organise marine insurance for your goods (it is worth putting an insurance value on a copy of your packing list to assist you in getting a quote), Contact us to enquire about insurance.
- Containers need to be weighed before going to wharf
- We pick up full container and deliver it to the wharf at the port of departure.
- We arrange for fumigation (if required)
- We arrange customs export clearance.
- We book in wharf and container park slots. (booking fee involved)
- We pay the port fees required.
- Fees are: Ocean Freight plus a fuel levy
- Unless we have an agent at the destination port you may have to find a suitable one yourself. Contact us to see if we have an agent at your destination port.
For share a container (LCL) cargo:
- You pack, wrap, label your goods
- We give you a delivery instruction and you bring your goods to our nominated depot (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle) to your commercial premises.
Shipping service we provide are:
20ft & 40ft full containers and share a container (LCL) for small freight go out of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle
Pure Car Carriers (also known as drive on/off or roll on /off) for cars, 4WD’s, utes, vans, campers, caravans, motor homes, tractors, earth moving equipment, prime movers, mobile cranes, boats on trailers are shipped out of Brisbane, Port Kembla, Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle ports.