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Import and Export
We provide all import and export services under all available Incoterms in the following modalities
- LCL: Consolidated cargo, a full container is not necessary.
- FCL: Containerized cargo, in 20-foot (TEU) or 40-foot (FEU) containers.
- FCL ESPECIAL: Carga en contenedores OT (OPEN TOP) FLR (FLAT RACK DE 20 Y 40) y contenedores de 45 PIES.
- AIR MODE: Air freight, where it's crucial to consider both volume and weight, as space or volume is critical in this mode of transport.
- DTAI: International multimodal transportation service by land. (Applies to Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile)
- COURIER: Service for cargo weighing less than 50 kilograms under Incoterms DDU or DDP.
Vehicle Exportation
Restored or Classic
We are experts in shipping these rolling gems to any destination worldwide. We specialize in sending consolidated shipments in 40' HC containers, especially to the United States, Dubai, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Canada, and Puerto Rico, among others.
We reach any place in the world where there are buyers for these vehicles .We help carry out the procedures before the DIJIN for review and approval.
In case you require it, we have an international trading company that can export directly for you.
RO/RO
In this service modality, everything enters rolling and everything exits rolling, this is what RO/RO refers to. We have special vessels for the transportation of self-propelled vehicles, allowing the transportation of large quantities of them without the need to send each one in a container.
These ships function as immense floating parking lots that allow for large volumes of units and are simply loaded and unloaded through a giant gate on the side of the ship, eliminating excessive handling that could jeopardize vehicles or rolling machinery. We handle everything from construction materials to roofing elements, wood, insulation, structural steels, sanitary facilities, fuel, and pipes.
Break Bulk
We are experts in handling this type of extraordinary or oversized cargo, to and from anywhere in the world. This type of cargo is coordinated under special liner terms to ensure total service coverage, as not properly using these terms can lead to additional costs due to not considering additional loading fees at origin or destination, and even storage costs alongside the ship. Thanks to our negotiation power and over 15 years of experience in coordinating special projects, we can guarantee control over your costs, project execution times, and the quality with which we deliver our services.
Courier
We can handle imports and exports in this modality to and from anywhere in the world, provided the following conditions are met:
- The box or boxes must not exceed a total weight of 50 kg.
- The dimensions of the boxes must not exceed 125 cm in any of their dimensions (Length x Width x Height).
- There must not be more than 5 units of the same reference.
- For imports, the FOB value must not exceed USD 2000.00.
- For exports, the FOB value must not exceed USD 5000.00.
- The volumetric weight must be calculated as follows: Length in cm x Width in cm x Height in cm, and then divide the total by 5000.
- Once the cargo arrives in Bogotá or its destination in exportation, any applicable taxes must be paid, and then the transit to the final beneficiary's address can proceed.
Domestic and Urban Transportation
We have all the necessary vehicles for transporting your cargo locally, nationally, and internationally.
If you require exclusive or consolidated transportation for import or export, then you are in the right place.
We have a presence in all ports of Colombia and major cities with Carrier vehicles, turbo, single, skateboards, tractor-trailers, double trucks, and low beds.
Finally, if it's FCL cargo, we handle the return of the container to the assigned yard port with quick and efficient drop-off.
Customs
We always advise our clients to first identify the tariff classification of their product in import or export before reviewing their logistics costs.
The tariff classification is like the ID or passport of your products in Colombia and abroad. Taxes depend on it, as well as the documents, certificates, licenses, or permits required when importing or exporting your cargo from each country.
Our team will help you validate the tariff classifications to ensure customs certainty in your projects.
Purchases Abroad
Our team is based in China (Shenzhen) and we're here to assist you in sourcing direct suppliers. In China, approximately 80% of merchants operate as traders or intermediaries, often working out of short-term rented offices in co-working spaces. Unfortunately, many of these traders advertise through well-known online stores, but there's a risk of losing your money once you've made advances. In some cases, they fulfill your orders with different references, sizes, and colors, then ship them using inefficient and costly carriers. This often leads to unsatisfactory outcomes, leaving customers disappointed. Reach out to us to avoid such situations and ensure a professional handling of your projects.
Representation of Foreign Brands in Colombia
In importation to Colombia, we help our clients bring in their products or services through our international trading company, under a specific international contract that we design. After that, we simply handle all the logistics costing, customs duties, and even delivery and distribution to large retailers. Upon receiving acceptance, we proceed to invoice with our margin and send the dividends back to the origin. This ensures that investors who do not intend to establish a company in Colombia continue to inject money into our economy, generating employment and opportunities for our economy.
In exportation, we assist our clients through our trading company in positioning their products abroad and expanding into the international market, ensuring the delivery of their products with all the necessary standards to finalize their sale effectively and safely.
International Trade Consulting
We provide personalized consulting to analyze, identify, and solve logistical problems, which will help the client coordinate, manage, and transport products for commercialization.
We receive hundreds of clients who have been scammed by purchasing on digital platforms, where they make payment for their product and it either arrives months later or never reaches its destination due to non-compliance with pre-importation requirements.
Cargo Insurance
We offer an excellent insurance rate that covers the international journey as well as the national and urban journey for imports. Sometimes, the client purchases insurance from the international supplier (CIF), but this policy will never cover the national journey from the ports to the interior cities of their destination. Similarly, for exports, it applies to the national and international journey to the destination port. For this reason, our policy is the best option with special rates for our clients. As the saying goes: 'It's better to have insurance and not need it than to need it and not have it.'"
Transport
OTM (Transporte Multimodal) and warehouses in the free trade zone
We have the best OTM (Multimodal Transport) partners that allow the importer to bring their goods to a free trade zone, where we have the best storage warehouses. The advantage of a free trade zone is that it is considered a zone outside the national customs territory, so you can partially nationalize and pay taxes for what is needed without having to pay full taxes for the entire cargo. This, among other tax advantages and logistical ease within cities.