Custom Brokerage

Our long standing relationship with Customs has given us the leverage for priority services, which we have gladly extended to all our customers e.g. AEO / Green Channel programme and Customs Transit Shed (AFS) for priority clearance and extended clearing hours. Through our close relationship with KRA-Customs and other stakeholders, we have continued to support our clients as follows:

  • Provision of timely responses to Customs queries.
  • Acting as primary liaison between our clients and regulatory authorities / stakeholders.
  • Maintaining on-going compliance on all processes.

Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Green Channel (Kenya & E.A Region)

Under this programme, we are given priority by Customs and other government agencies and the clearing period is greatly reduced. We facilitate for our clients to be accredited into the AEO programme to become Green Channel members.

Important Note:
Having pioneered the AEO programme, we have mastered the intricate benefits of the AEO programme to enable our clients to reduce on logistics lead times and landed cost of goods.

Being an AEO certified agent both in Kenya and in East Africa region, we leverage on this accreditation to guarantee our clients of our superior service quality that enables us to sustain the delivery of the promise on reduced service offering lead times.
With our standing under the AEO programme, we envisage the following benefits accruing to our clients:

  • Enhanced relationship between our clients and Customs.
  • Reduced cargo dwell time in the ports of exit.
  • Benchmarking with WCO’s global best practices.
  • Getting preferential treatment from Customs.
  • Enhanced corporate citizenship standing through compliance and legitimate trade facilitation.
  • Enhanced security of cargo, payment of right taxes and proper documentation.

 

Customs Transit Shed at JKIA - Africa Flight Services Ltd (AFS)

In an effort to offer our customers a one-stop logistics solution, we have our own Customs Transit Shed – Africa Flight Services Ltd at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. The purpose of going this extra mile was specifically to ensure that we give our clients complete supply-chain management solutions through our Transit Shed, which offers the following benefits to our clients to save on importation costs in the following ways:
  • Offer timely advice of cargo on arrival to enable clients to provide complete set of documents;
  • Value added services – through helping our clients to save on unplanned storage charges e.g. by extending the working hours for assessment and release of cargo with Customs;
  • Offer early processing of Customs entries upon receipt of goods in our transit shed as we are accessible to the release orders on arrival of the flights;
  • Provide adequate security of cargo, thus minimizing incidences of pilferage and damage;
  • Ability to secure release of client’s cargo when customs systems break down but upon payment of Customs taxes;
  • Faster Customs clearance from 2hours to one day clearance depending on circumstances. Overnight and over the weekend clearance can be arranged through our in-house customs office;
  • Full security control of cargo from origin through our main airline partner (Emirates SkyCargo, Lufthansa Cargo, Saudia Airline, Ethiopian Airline, Air India, Allied/Network Airlines, and Astral Aviation) to whom we are their ground handling agent (GHA) through our Transit Shed.

Customs Container Freight Station at Mombasa - Focus & Consolbase CFS

We have partnered with reliable CFS’s which offers our clients cargo numerous benefits including:
  •  Prioritizing of our clients cargo from the Port to CFS
  • 21 – 30 Days free storage days
  • 24/7 Security for secure storage
  • Timely tracking and visibility through daily status reports
  • Quick clearance of our clients cargo

 

Documentation Requirements and KPIs

The mandatory documents to facilitate Customs clearance include:

Airfreight Consignments

  • Original commercial invoice & Packing List.
  • Air Way Bill (House Air Way Bill in case of a consolidation).
  • Certificate of Conformity (where applicable).
  • Import Declaration Form (IDF) & the pay in slip or a proforma invoice 3 working days prior cargo arrival if we are doing the IDF application.
  • Insurance Cover Note.
  • Freight invoice (where applicable).
  • Form C36 duly signed by an authorized officer.
  • Such other documents or information as may be required for the clearing and handling of the Goods from time to time.

Sea Freight Consignments

  • Original commercial invoice & Packing List.
  • wo Original Bills of Lading (endorsed & stamped at the back).
  • Certificate of Conformity (where applicable).
  • Import Declaration Form (IDF) & the pay in slip or a proforma invoice five working days; prior cargo arrival if we are doing the IDF application.
  • Insurance Cover Note.
  • Freight invoice (where applicable).
  • Form C36 duly signed by an authorized officer.
  • Such other documents or information as may be required for the clearing and handling of the goods from time to time.