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Roadworld UK guarantees the same commitment to expert service that customers have become accustomed to receiving from Roadworld SA. The latter has built a sterling reputation on ensuring that customers are not merely a number in a big corporate entity but instead receive personalized attention from senior management with a high quality of service guaranteed. 

Please contact Michael Clayton at the below contact details for any business to and from the UK from your region, copying Roadworld SA on all correspondence.

Michael Clayton – Owner
Mobile: +44(0)74759 297 97
michael@roadworlduk.co.uk

Natalie Clayton – Owner
Mobile: +44(0)79497 397 06
natalie@roadworlduk.co.uk

Email copy: controller1@roadworld.co.za

Address: West Hill
Main Road
Littleton
Winchester
SO22 6QS
UK

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 26th  March 2021

Dear Customer,

SARS Customs is focusing on Customs Valuations, to ensure importers comply with the regulations in determining the Customs Valuation on imported goods.

Customs Valuation is a procedure applied to determine the customs value of imported goods, which in turn is used to determine the applicable Customs Duty and VAT to be paid. Should your commercial invoice show a freight amount, then SARS may request supporting documentation to validate the Customs Valuation.

SARS will not accept the freight amount on “C” and “D” Incoterm® commercial invoices. The actual supporting document must be provided to qualify for a deduction of the freight in order to declare the FOB Customs Value.

• If your forwarding is with Roadworld, Roadworld will have the relevant supporting documentation.
• If you are not forwarding with Roadworld and shipping on “C” or “D” Incoterms®, ask your supplier to provide you with a freight statement that confirms the amount paid for freight, however your supplier must list the freight amount separately on your commercial invoice.
• SARS will accept the freight statement from the shipping lines or the freight statement from a licenced or registered SA agent or representative.

Failure to produce the freight statement, will result in duties being paid on the freight amount and possible penalties and storage charges incurring.

There could also be a request for proof of payment to confirm the amounts declared. Kindly ensure that the freight statement is provided when clearance documents are sent to us to avoid delays.

Please take heed of the above.

Kind regards

(Sent electronically therefore unsigned)

Your Roadworld Controllers.

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By Neil Fusedale

Given the widespread need for personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves and sanitisers it is perhaps no surprise that more people are trying to import these products into South Africa. Stocks of PPE have been severely impacted by a global need for these products to address the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, what needs to be remembered is that these imported products face being confiscated by local import authorities in South Africa unless the importer has a medical service provider license.

Neil Fusedale is the founder and MD of Roadworld Clearing & Forwarding.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an increasingly more fraught operating environment for the freight and logistics industry as port delays, additional Covid-19 charges and declining service levels negatively impact the industry.

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) blame staffing shortages and low productivity at the country’s containers terminals for the delays. The delays at South Africa’s harbour ports have resulted in a significant build-up of vessels that are unable to get berthing slots. The situation has been exacerbated by a shortage of containers, hauliers, space constraints and long truck queues.

While port delays have in recent years become common occurrences, the situation at Cape Town’s port is currently particularly challenging. In fact, the situation has become so dire that international shipping line, DAL Duetsche Afrika-Linien (DAL) recently took the decision to temporarily discontinue its direct service to Cape Town as a result of continued throughput delays while other lines are skipping certain local ports in an effort to sustain their sailing schedules.

Port delays are making it difficult for import and export logistics providers such as Roadworld to meet the needs of their clients. Despite repeated calls from industry to government to address the delays at South African ports, there has to date been little assistance provided.

Aggravating the situation is the fact that random ‘Covid-19 charges’ are being added to the cost of export and import freight charges by handling agents – but often without adding any noticeable value. These additional costs are being charged by both port and airline handling operators who have almost unilaterally seen declining service levels since the onset of the pandemic in South Africa in March this year.

A limited number of airlines operating during the height of the country’s lockdown meant that freight operators were limited in terms of choice of airlines. Of those that have been operating, many have opened only erratically and have not been contactable via either phone or email making it difficult to confirm bookings and schedules.

In tandem with the decline in air passengers, air freight charges have in recent month’s undergone significant increases as airlines around the world try to recoup some of their losses. On average we are seeing increases of up to 20% in the cost of air freight. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that these costs will revert back to pre-Covid levels any time soon.

The key to operating successfully in these challenging times is having a solutions driven mindset, a culture that Roadworld has long embraced. This solutions driven mindset means that irrespective of what has caused the challenge, we don’t rest until we have figured out how to resolve the problem.

Neil Fusedale is the founder and MD of Roadworld Clearing & Forwarding.

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