Barrington Freight is the ideal company to turn to when arranging imports to the UK from Alabama. We have a raft of experience to draw upon for many classes of imported goods from the state and other nearby ones in the USA, such as Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, all of which border it. As British importing firms may already be aware, the major production centres in Alabama include Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Montgomery as well as Huntsville in the north. However, please note that our skilled and knowledgeable operations team can handle the logistics involved with imports from any part of the state, including less well-known places, such as Winfield or Fort Payne, for instance.
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Indeed, Barrington freight has a great deal of know-how to share when arranging shipments via Alabama’s principal port city of Mobile. Exported goods from the United States pass through Mobile Bay into the Gulf of Mexico all the time and will often make direct transit to British waters over the North Atlantic. Whether or not your import is urgent, we will do everything that is needed to ensure your goods are handled with due diligence both before they are loaded onto ocean-going vessels and afterwards.
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Importing from Alabama (and the other way too)
Much of rural Alabama has an economy that has been historically based on farming, notably cotton, peanuts and soybeans. However, it also has a thriving manufacturing sector. Hyundai, Honda, Mercedes and Toyota all have significant production plants in the state, for example. Steel and rubber products, especially tyres, are made in Alabama among many other classes of products. As such, the state is one that British importers will frequently seek trading arrangements with suppliers that have a proven track record.
Why Choose Barrington Freight When Importing from Alabama?
As a member of the British International Freight Association, Barrington Freight can guarantee all of its clients’ high-quality services when importing from Alabama to the UK. We’ll keep you updated on the progress of your shipment and make the necessary arrangements for your goods to be forwarded to you directly as soon as they have arrived in the country and passed their customs inspection. Call our operations team today to see what else we can do to help.
Customs Clearance Services for Alabama Imports
Any business based in the UK that wishes to import from suppliers in Alabama will need an import license and to be registered with the customs notification system, having been issued with an EORI number. All goods imported from the US require customs declarations, too. These have to be made for goods from Alabama just as they would be for any other state. The problem many smaller firms – and some larger ones, too – face is that they do not have the in-house know-how to deal with these declarations. However, we can take care of your shipments from Alabama to the UK and deal with the necessary paperwork, duty declarations, commodity coding and everything else. As freight forwarders, we keep our customs clearance work under one roof, thereby offering you an economy of scale.
We are friendly, easy to work with, honest and we do not charge the earth.
For more information about our services or if you have an unusual load request, reach out to our sales team on 01268 978660 or email sales@barringtonfreight.co.uk.
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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.
