BARELL PRE-CLEARANCE

SHIP- CLICK - COLLECT your barrels from London to Jamaica

Try our ship Click and Collect service from London to Jamaica.

Benefits of the service:

• No more queues at the wharf
•  no haggling with customs officers
•  no waiting for hours on end in the hot sun to collect your clearance paper
• no quarrelling with wharf security on how and where to join a queue

•  all customs duty paid
•  all local agent release fees paid
•  pay one fee in the UK with nothing more to pay
•  gate pass processed and ready for collection of your barrel

Have you ever spent a day at Kingston wharf trying to clear and collect a barrel? We are speaking from experience, its long ting.  Even for local Jamaicans. Its a long ting.  Its an unforgiving, tiresome process for inexperinced persons who dont know how to navigate the wharf, and a tiresome process for even the most experienced shippers.

Clearing and collecting a barrel can take a whole day at the best of times. And that’s if your receiver gets it right first time.  Many persons attend Kingston Wharf releasing agents and forget their ID, or they bring an incorrect form of ID, and they have to turn back and return to the wharf another day.

But here's a scenario that we come across so very often. When wasted journeys occur to the wharf, many times, the sender in the UK gets a phone call with a request for additional funds to help the receiver clear the barrel. Lets all be honest here, many times, when barrels are sent from London to Jamaica, its the sender that pays mostly all the fees. From shipping to clearing, to paying for the driver in Jamaica to buy a cold beer for patiently waiting all day for the receiver to turn up with Granny’s barrel.

We know that persons in the UK a mostly very grateful to receivers in Jamaica to facilitate barrel receipt and forwarding to loved ones and vulnerable persons who cant attend the Shipping Wharf.

However, due to delays that can occur with the collection process, the price the UK sender ends up paying all the people involved can be a considerable sum.If you’ve sent barrels before, you’ll know what Im talking about.

Also, if you’re a newbie to sending barrels from London to jamaica, you might find this service removes a lot of unknown steps for you.

The barrel Pre-clearance process is designed be a mid-tier service to our gold standard door-to-door delivery service.  Many persons have a drive they can rely on collect a barrel or two and do not require the home delivery element of the barrel shipping process in Jamaica.  The Pre-clearance service is designed to sit  the middle and reduce the headache and additional costs that come with clearing a barrel in Kingston Jamaica.

Here’s how it works

1. Place your order for an empty barrel using our booking online tool if you don’t have an empty barrel.
2. After receipt of your empty barrel, once this is packed and ready, place an order online and purchase the pre-clearance barrel item.  Two days later we'll collect your full barrel.
3. As fast as we can, we'll ship your barrel to Kingston Jamaica 25 days after collection. You can track your barrel arrival 24 hrs a day using our online barrel tracking service
4. Your receiver will get a call to collect the barrel(s) from our local agent
5. Your receiver will then attend the local agent and collect their release Gate pass. All they must do is walk round the back of the wharf to the collections area and present there Gate pass to the security. Go and grab there vehicle and chuck the barrel in the back of the van. Off they go!

What’s included more specifically in the price?

Lets get a bit technical now. What is specifically included in the price per barrel is the following:

1. Collection of barrel from London postal area
2. Shipping of barrel(s) to Kingston Wharf Jamaica
3. Local agent local charges – documentation, handling, processing
4. Customs IMS 4 Declaration
5. Kingston Wharf Handling and storage charges
6. Customs Duty (flat fee for barrels packed with household goods and personal effects). Max value of goods per barrel @ £300
7. 3 days storage (working) from the date of issuance of gate pass

Exclusions

1. Storage charges over and above for items not collected after 3 days of gate pass issuance
2. Customs duty attracted to either commercial items or items over and above the total value of your barrel being valued above £300

Terms and conditions apply with this service:

1. Customs duty is paid withing the price point for barrel contents not exceeding £300.
2. Only household effects permitted for this service
3. Prohibited items not permitted
4. Copy of valid UK id required from sender for security of exported items
5. Barrels must be collected within 5 days of receiver being notified items were ready for collection.

Exclusions

1. Storage charges over and above for items not collected after 3 days of gate pass issuance
2. Customs duty attracted to either commercial items or items over and above the total value of your barrel being valued above £300

Terms and conditions apply with this service:

1. Customs duty is paid withing the price point for barrel contents not exceeding £300.
2. Only household effects permitted for this service
3. Prohibited items not permitted
4. Copy of valid UK id required from sender for security of exported items
5. Barrels must be collected within 5 days of receiver being notified items were ready for collection.

Failing collection after 5 days additional storage fees will be charged secure release of the cargo from the releasing agent locally.