Cost-effective exports from the London gateway
If you ship goods overseas by having them pass through the port of London Gateway in southern Essex, then you will want to make sure that there are no problems with the customs inspections that will be made there.
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Customs Clearances Via London Gateway
This is something Barrington Freight can help with. After all, before any consignments can pass through the port and onto vessels, they will need to undergo HMRC’s processes. If you have not filled out your paperwork properly or something is missing with your declaration, then customs officials can hold your consignment up and not allow it to continue with its onward journey out into the Thames Estuary and beyond.
To avoid potential hold-ups and even having goods impounded at London Gateway by officials, it is important to ensure you have a slick customs clearance operation in place for your exports. The trouble with this is – for many exporting firms, at least – is that they do not possess the in-house skills to get this work completed on time or correctly. That’s why appointing Barrington Freight as your customs clearance agent would be so beneficial. We have a wealth of experience in all matters relating to export customs clearances at London Gateway and other major ports in the country.
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Expertly Handled Export Customs Clearances Via London Gateway
As professionals in customs clearance work, we can assist your business to speed up its export processes even if you don’t have an EORI registration at the moment. For more established exporters who may just need our advice on certain technical aspects of customs clearance work, we can still provide a high-quality service that only means paying for the customs clearance work you need. Our approachable team will deal with each request for customs clearance agency work on a case by case basis to make sure each shipment arrives at London Gateway fully prepared to continue the next leg of its journey with no unwanted downtime at the port side.
We have been working as export customs clearance agents at London Gateway and elsewhere for many years. As such, we can help with matters like master reference numbers, export invoicing and certifications for different classes of goods. We can also act on your behalf should customs officers fail to approve an inspection for whatever reason, helping to ensure a swift outcome is reached.
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Whether you are shipping a few items on a pallet or have a truckload of goods in your consignment, Barrington Freight can provide top-class freight forwarding services as well as act as export customs clearance agents. Unlike many agents that deal with customs clearances at London Gateway, we combine our freight forwarding work with our export declarations so that everything is handled by the same operations team. This makes our service offering more cost-effective and efficient. Please call or email us to find out more about how this can benefit your business so that you can offer a more streamlined delivery service to all of your overseas clients.
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2023-11-14
The guys at Barrington are brilliant! I've used them for my shipments for around 12 years now and they never let you down. Always happy to help with anything!
David Darrock
2023-11-10
Barrington Freight are extremely helpful and professional, promptly answering any questions or queries. Communication from them has been great and they have taken the difficulty out of importing freight.
Scott Glazebrook
2023-11-01
Our business is the supply of high end luxury furniture and as such we rely on Barrington Freight to provide a 5* delivery service which they have done time and time again.
Reliable, friendly and efficient sums up this great approachable freight forwarding business.
Krishan Dhillon
2023-11-01
10/10, dealt with everything start to finish. Customer service was friendly and helpful
Sharmane Barrett
2023-10-20
We had a last minute request and Lee was fantastic in helping us to arrange transportation and facilitate delivery from Europe, very quickly with no hiccups. I would highly recommend.
Simon Edgecombe
2023-10-16
HAVING USED MANY SHIPPERS TO IMPORT OUR GOODS FROM THE USA (NONE OUTSTANDING) I DECIDED THIS TIME TO HAVE A SEARCH AROUND TO SEE IF I COULD FIND A BETTER OPTION. I FOUND BARRINGTON FREIGHT AFTER EMAILING MANY OTHERS, SOME OF THEM (UPS,DHL,FEDEX) SIMPLY TOOK SO LONG TO CONTACT ME, THAT IT BECAME STUPID, SIMON AT BARRINGTON CAME BACK TO ME VIRTUALLY STRAIGHT AWAY WITH A VERY GOOD PRICE, ALSO GOOD SHIPPING TIMES. NOW A SERVICE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE RESULTS, AND THEY WERE AS GOOD AS THEIR WORD. HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND THEM AND SIMON AT BARRINGTON FREIGHT WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON WE GO TO NEXT TIME, WELL DONE!!
Emir Danial
2023-09-26
Brilliant EXW freight forwarding services from China to the UK. Professionally done, readily available for support, and our shipments were trackable. There were last minute issues on regards to customs clearance and redirecting of goods that we take responsibility for, but with their quick action, we were able to swiftly solve it all in much less than 24hrs. Fantastic experience working with Simon and his team, will continue to engage them for the foreseeable future. Thanks again Simon and the BF team!
Tom Gilbey
2023-09-18
Barrington Freight was brilliant from start to finish. We had a very good shipping experience with them.
Dean Marsh
2023-09-09
What a superb company especially Simon Poole the agent who handled all my inquiries even worked over weekend to clear and arrange for my items to be removed from airline shed to save us storage charges Then when there were a little issue with the airline loosening items he dealt with it very quickly. We will only use him for our import Clearence’s now
Tilly H
2023-08-10
I highly recommend Barrington freight. Simon could not do enough for me and as a first time user of freight services I was anxious. Simon guided me smoothly through the whole process from start to finish. I am beyond pleased with the service I was given.
