liz@ifc.net.nz
Phone: 0274 141 707
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Independent Freight Consultants Co Ltd Forward Thinking – Creative Solutions Moving goods around the world is a complicated process and for most companies, secondary to their mainline business. Yet, if your business involves importing or exporting chances are its causing unnecessary paperwork and worse still, costing more than it should. How many hours does your company spend following up shipments due to arrive or depart, chasing forwarders, customs agents, shipping lines and airlines? Consider: * Do you employ people to deal exclusively with exports and imports? * Are they familiar with the diversity of freighting options? * Do they leave these matters to a freight forwarder or customs agent? * Do they solicit competitive quotations? * Do you have a system ensuring all documentation is correct and economically handled? * Have you experienced expensive shipping and freight forwarding delays due to incorrect documentation? Who Are We? We are freight forwarding consultants with over 25 years of shipping and freight forwarding experience, who understand how the systems work and the pitfalls waiting for the inexperienced or overworked player. Why Talk To Us? As an independent agency without affiliation to any forwarder, shipping company or airline, we are able to assess all the options, sourcing the best rates and the services appropriate to your unique need, this includes national as well as international transport. What We Do: First we work with you to understand your freight forwarding needs, review your procedures and identify what is causing unnecessary expense. Working with your team, we then unpick the intricacies of freight forwarding and set up the correct systems to ensure the cost benefits on an ongoing basis. A report detailing present costs and an ongoing cost saving will be given plus regular follow-up to ensure any new processes and systems continue to run smoothly. OTHER SERVICES: Tender If you tender your freight business - we can assist you by receiving the various tenders, compiling and costing these to help you find the most efficient way to move your business forward. Staff Training Often exporting/importing documentation falls onto a staff member who has little or no experience in this field. We can explain simply what and why these documents are required, ensure correct procedures are followed and assist with any freight forwarding problems arising. Seminar Service IFC offer a Seminar Service giving an overview of international freight forwarding requirements, benefiting both existing shippers looking to export and import from new trade lanes and new shippers exporting and/or importing for the first time. Pacific Island Service We arrange Sea-freight exports to all main destinations in the Pacific from your door to port. Freight Management IFC will manage your imports and exports, provide daily updates and track all shipments to delivery to door, leaving your staff to concentrate on your core business. Ideal for the larger business that have multiple departments tracking various shipments |
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