Customs Document Processing Delays

Current Peak Season Period: The current Peak Season Period has seen far greater traffic volumes than in past years and space is at an all-time premium from all Asian origin ports. We have not seen this volume of traffic moving for quite some time so early booking is essential to ensure movement of containers prior

Why INCO terms can be your best shipping friend One common reply when I ask an Importer or Exporter why they chose a particular INCO term to trade with their supplier or buyer is that “it’s just easier”. Choosing the right INCO term can go a long way to helping your business become more efficient

GPSM is pleased to announce a great new enhancement which allows you to export your product lines to excel. This feature is available for all customers sending us orders via data files that are imported into Communicater. If you are not currently sending us files and you would like to, please contact us and we &he

GPSM has created a new method to process document packs (Doc Pack) on Communicater (CTR). Up until now, your doc pack appears on CTR around the time of delivery. It is a scanned full set of commercial documents added as one file. An email alert is sent to the subscribed parties to let them know …

GPSM is delighted to part of this initiative by the Logistics Bureau. Following on from last year’s success we are going around again. Supply Chain Leaders Insights, is an innovative new Supply Chain Event format and we would love you to join us there. It’s being held at Merivale, 320/330 George Stre

Rates from North East and South East Asia/Indian Sub-Continent: Current rates from North East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Korea) to Australia have been extended until 14th October 2017 without generally being changed. Shipping Lines have advertised that they will be seeking a General Rate Increase fr

Please note below message just received from Port Botany advising of industrial action commencing on 26th September 2017 at Sydney Port. This action will obviously disrupt vessel arrivals and departures and could seriously affect deliveries to/from the port before and after the stoppage. Issue: Industrial action t

Space Availability Becoming an Issue For Early Peak Season There are extensive space issues out of Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand for traffic to Australian ports. All carriers are fully booked and space is becoming extremely hard to obtain at present with first available vessels now being quoted as October. Thi

Dear Clients, We would like to advise that most Italian suppliers, factories and trucking companies will be closed for Summer Vacations from August 7th up to August 25th. Heavy goods vehicles are totally banned from roads from 4.00pm July 28th until 4.00pm August 4th, 2017. Below is a list of the various Italian r

Our Indian partners have advised us of the following information on a new GST to apply to all services in India from 1st July 2017. The Government of India is planning to implement GST to all services in India with effect from 1st of July 2017. Goods and Services Tax (GST) is one indirect uniform …