SABER certification, explained without the jargon
Most import delays at Saudi ports trace back to a conformity certificate that was never arranged. Here is what SABER actually requires and when to start.
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Notes from the operations desk
Written by the people who file the declarations and book the trucks. No thought leadership, just the things that cost our clients money when they are not known in advance.
Red Sea or Arabian Gulf? Choosing the right Saudi port
Saudi Arabia has two coastlines and picking the wrong one can add several days of inland trucking to an otherwise efficient sailing.
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Six practical ways to stop paying demurrage
Demurrage and detention charges are almost always avoidable. They are the price of starting the clearance process too late.
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Incoterms 2020: what Saudi importers should actually agree to
The three letters at the end of your purchase order decide who pays, who insures and who carries the risk. Most importers accept the supplier’s preference by default.
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What happens before an abnormal load moves
The transport is the easy part. Everything that makes a heavy-lift move succeed happens weeks earlier, on paper and on the road itself.
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Holding the cold chain from origin to Saudi shelf
A temperature excursion does not announce itself. By the time the product looks wrong, the failure happened days earlier and several handovers back.
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