UWL grows portfolio
Published by Angharad Lock,
Digital Assistant Editor
Dry Bulk,
UWL LLC continues to grow its portfolio following coordinating their customs brokerage services with World Shipping Inc. A customs house broker (CHB), is a critical service provided by logistics companies to ensure that import cargo is correctly cleared with US customs. They are licensed by the US Treasury Department after passing a rigorous written examination and an extensive background investigation.
“We are no longer just clearing traditional containerised imports and airfreight, but are now clearing the international bulk vessels coming into the Great Lakes today,” states Shannon Dillinger, licensed CHB at UWL. Dillinger, who offers 18 years of experience, utilises her quality team of logistics professionals to remain competitive. “Where a traditional container vessel would require thousands of clearances, a single bulk vessel may only require a few or sometimes just one, if all the cargo is on one Bill of Lading. The main difference, however, is that you have to be on call 24 x 7 for these types of clearances and the vessels are not arriving in exact schedules like the liner vessels. This type of service takes on a whole new level for our brokerage team, as we now have to be a 24 x 7 operation.”
Jackie Csiszar, World Shipping’s Director-Vessel Operations, said: “Today, we are the largest vessel agency in the U.S. and Great Lakes, with recent expansion into Lake Ontario, Canada. This new service allows the World Shipping Group of companies to expand our services to the customer. Our big advantage is that we work seamlessly internally, as we know the exact movement, berthing of the vessels and our customs brokerage team is just down the hall from my team, so we all work in unison.”
World Shipping has continued to grow significantly in 2016.
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/dry-bulk/09112016/uwl-grows-portfolio/
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