Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya Description

Clearing and forwarding companies in Kenya acts like an intermediary between a shipper (person shipping or cargo owners) and other logistics providers on chain supply logistics. Clearing and forwarding agents in Kenya have proved to be a vital part of chain supply logistics.

Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya

Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya are also called Shipping Companies, Clearing & Forwarding Agents, Custom Clearing Agents, Customs Clearance, customs brokerage, shipping Agents and Logistics Consultants, Kenya Sea Freight Forwarders, Air Freight Forwarders, and Cargo Shipping Agents.

 Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya – Services

Kenya’s Clearing and Forwarding Agents Companies or Customs agents are logistics experts with a very good knowledge of the state of the import-export customs clearance and are well informed of Kenya’s and East Africa common economy customs regulations governance.

Clearing & Forwarding Agents knows and understands the major rules and regulations applicable in the international clearance and forwarding process in Kenya, East Africa, and their international trade partners. It would be a wise step to hire a clearance and forwarding agent if you are planning to ship products from a different country to Kenya or through Kenya. In some countries, Kenya and East African states being an example it’s mandatory to use Clearing & Forwarding Agents for your import or export at the customs declarations.

Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya – Practice

Clearing & Forwarding Agents in Kenya performs the following functions:

♦ Creating an invoice for international shipping,
♦ Making arrangements for the shipment pickup and cargo delivery reports,
♦  Arranging and coordinating customs for attaching warehousing,
♦ Thoroughly completing all the documentation work required for your shipment,
♦  Confirming the delivery of your shipment.

Clearing & Forwarding Agents in Kenya have established a relationship with shipping lines, sea, air, and land transportation system including rail services, trucking, and shipping ocean liners. Once the shipment has been handed over to the Clearing & Forwarding Companies Agents, the shipper or the cargo owners can rely on clearing and forwarding agents for the timely shipping and safe delivery of the cargo.

A good Clearing and Forwarding Company will always be perfect in logistics skills of how to arrange for careful shipping of cargo whether they are dangerous cargo or require any additional support meets the shippers’’ specific wishes all along the sailing or shipping routes.

Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya

Clearing and Forwarding Agents in Kenya – Charges

Clearing and Forwarding Agents calculation of clearance and freight charges depends upon the distance and other arrangements made thereof for the safety of the product such as refrigeration facility, container facility, or some other sort of preservation facility is required, or if there is any hazardous material included in the package, or the number of carriers that would be required to carry the goods, etc.

Clearing & Forwarding Agents calculate all these factors for selecting the best bid then add their own fee and then give the client a cost. If the Clearing and Forwarding Agents agree with shipper or cargo owner over the same frames of price, time and task, then it becomes the responsibility of the Clearing & Forwarding Agents to ship the assigned cargo to the destination.

Clearing and Forwarding Agents in Kenya – Custom Brokers

Customs brokerage is a profession that involves the clearing or forwarding of shipment through customs barriers for importers and exporters. This involves the preparation of shipping documentation and electronic submissions, the calculation and the customs taxes, excise duties and levies payment on behalf of the exporter / Importer generally what we know as custom clearance.

Customs brokers also facilitate communication between the importer/exporter and clearing, forwarding agents and customs authorities. Customs brokers in Kenya may also prepare and submit documentation through clearing and forwarding agents to notify or obtain the clearance from customs and other government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Kenya Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries, Kenya Wildlife Service, and many others.

Kenya Customs broker’s needs to be familiar with the Kenya customs clearing tariff schedule, a listing of duty rates for imported items, and the regulations governing importations to Kenya. Kenya’s Exports does not have as many regulations as the imports, so one will always export from Kenya easily.

Kenya Customs brokers may need to advise importers regarding their imports, country of origin marking requirements or the precise paperwork requirements for a shipment subject to Kenya customs or Kenya bureau of standards’ requirements, shipping, and other logistics.

With customs brokers’ Knowledge of the importation requirements of each type of shipment can avoid costly delays or seizure of the merchandise. Many customs brokers specialize in certain types of transactions, such as freight forwarding, clearing the crew and manifest of large cargo vessels.

Kenya Customs brokers can be located at border towns to clear merchandise in transit or sent in bond a large number are located in Nairobi and around major airports but most are located in Mombasa city, around kilindini harbor or basically tend to be concentrated around ports with international traffic where shipment freights are frequent and around customs remittance offices. Customs brokers normally arrange the forwarding, clearing, and transshipment, delivery, of customs-cleared shipments through relationships with other logistics companies.

Customs brokers are not Kenya government or Kenya customs authority employees and should not be confused with Customs agents, although in some countries the term customs agent may mean customs broker and also in Kenya clearing and forwarding agents tend to be referred as customs agents or even customs brokers.

Custom brokers may be employed by or affiliated with clearing agents or freight forwarders, but may be independent businesses or may be employed by shipping lines, importers, exporters, trade authorities and customs brokerage firms which will be referred to as clearing and forwarding companies. Many customs brokers acts for clearing and forwarding companies but qualified customs brokers must pass an examination and background check to become licensed.

Kenya customs brokers are licensed by the Kenya Revenue Authority which heads Kenya Customs and Kenya Airport Authority and Kenya Port Authority a body that licenses clearing and forwarding companies, logistics, shipping lines and any other person handling customs duty and levies.

East African Common Economy will not require licensing customs brokers and clearing agents operating in a second the East African Country.

List of Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya

♦ Wiseway Logistics Ltd
♦ Qatar Airways
♦ G4S Kenya
♦ Meteor Freight Forwarders Co. Ltd
♦ Vanline Logistics Ltd

♦ Timewatch Logistics Ltd
♦ Bora Freighters Ltd
♦ Logistics Centre Services
♦ The Nairobi Clearing House Ltd
♦ African Flight Services

♦ Astral Aviation Ltd
♦ Acceler Global Logistics Ltd
♦ Bollore Africa Logistics Kenya Ltd
♦ Inchcape Shipping Services Kenya Ltd
♦ Kenfreight (EA) Ltd

♦ Kuehne + Nagel Ltd
♦ Longrock Ltd
♦ Mitchell Cotts Freight (K) Ltd
♦ Rapid Kate Services Ltd
♦ Silverhawk International Ltd
♦ Transfreight Logistics Ltd

♦ Mara Shabba (K) Ltd
♦ Panal Freighters Limited
♦ Keihin Maritime Services Ltd
♦ Roy Parcel Services Ltd (R P S)
♦ Consolbase Limited
♦ DFS Express Lines Ltd

♦ Enron East Africa Limited
♦ Siginon Group
♦ United Parcel Service
♦ Aramex Kenya Ltd
♦ Fargo Courier Ltd
♦ Urban Cargo Networks Ltd

♦ Wells Fargo Ltd
♦ Aviation Cargo Support Ltd
♦ Cynkey Ltd
♦ Interfreight
♦ Dahla Kenya Ltd
♦ Dean Logistics Ltd
♦ Freight Forwarders Kenya Ltd

♦ Spedag Spedition (K) Ltd
♦ Eremo Stores Limited
♦ Eri – Kenya Ltd
♦ Focus Initiative Import & Export Co. Ltd
♦ Forester Forwarders Ltd
♦ Joyker Agencies

♦ Simpet Global Logistics
♦ Starex Freighters Ltd
♦ Transglobal Cargo Centre Ltd
♦ CPC Freight Services Ltd
♦ Kind Logistics Limited
♦ One World Movers & Forwarders Ltd

♦ Jemi Freights Ltd
♦ Pejon Freight Movers Ltd
♦ Spedag Interfreight Kenya Ltd
♦ Fedex Express (Pan Africa Express)
♦ Skynet Worldwide Express Ltd
♦ Delacom Services Co Ltd

♦ Total Touch Cargo Ltd
♦ Fast Transit Line (K) Ltd
♦ Milan Freight Services (K) Ltd
♦ Cellwell Ltd
♦ Alpha Impex Logistics International Ltd
♦ Access Shipping & Logistics Limited

♦ Bonfide Clearing & Forwarding
♦ Airwagon Cargo Movers Ltd
♦ DHL Worldwide Express (K) Ltd
♦ Flash International Courier Ltd
♦ Masterpiece Courier Services Ltd
♦ Mambo Express Courier Limited

♦ Kesom Freight International
♦ TNT Express Worldwide Kenya Ltd
♦ Kenya Airways Cargo
♦ EMS Kenya
♦ Al Micdad Parcel Services
♦ Aeromarine Capital Group Kenya
♦ Seabourne Worldwide Express
♦ Aircom Cargo Logistics (K) Ltd

♦ Camdel Cargo Logistics Kenya Ltd
♦ Seaways Kenya Ltd
♦ Dejas Enterprises Ltd
♦ Ufanisi Freighters (K) Ltd
♦ Salihiya Cargo & Shipping Agency

♦ Global Fleet Management Solutions Ltd
♦ Universal Express Ltd
♦ R.M. Logistics (K) Ltd
♦ R M Logistics (K) Ltd
♦ Skylux Logistics Ltd

♦ Courier Plus Logistics Ltd
♦ Quicklink Courier Services
♦ Safeway Courier Services Ltd
♦ African Courier Services
♦ Amana Courier Services

♦ Courier Services in Kenya
♦ DTDC Courier & Cargo Ltd
♦ East Africa Courier Ltd
♦ EasyLink Courier
♦ Fastlink courier
♦ Grafa Courier International Ltd
♦  Kampala Courier & Logistics

Clearing and Forwarding Companies in Kenya