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Kenya to South Sudan freight & customs guides
Practical, sourced explanations of what it costs to move cargo from Nairobi and Mombasa to Juba, how transit through Kenya and Uganda works, and what South Sudan customs will ask for at clearance.
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Shipping guides
Importing from China to South Sudan via Mombasa: a buyer's checklist
What to agree with your Chinese supplier before you pay the deposit, written from the problems we see at Mombasa rather than from a template.
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Customs & compliance
Mombasa Port transit cargo to South Sudan: the timeline
Berth to border, stage by stage, and which stages are under your control.
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Customs & compliance
The nine most common customs clearance delays, and how to avoid each
Almost every delay we see traces to one of nine causes. All nine are preventable, and eight of them are preventable before the goods ship.
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Customs & compliance
Shipping documentation for South Sudan, document by document
Not a list of what you need, but an explanation of what each document is for, so you can tell when one is wrong.
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Customs & compliance
How to work out your South Sudan import taxes before you ship
You can establish your duty position before you ship. What you cannot do is take a percentage off a freight company's blog and budget against it.
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Customs & compliance
SSNBS and Certificates of Conformity: what exporters get wrong
Five mistakes, in rough order of how often we see them, and what to do instead.
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Customs & compliance
Nimule border requirements: a pre-departure checklist
A checklist to run before the truck leaves, not after it joins the queue at Elegu.
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Customs & compliance
South Sudan customs clearance: a walkthrough of one consignment
The reference page lists the steps. This one follows a single consignment through them, including the places it could have gone wrong.
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Customs & compliance
Kenyan export or transit cargo? How to tell, and why it matters
The most expensive mistake on this corridor is treating foreign cargo as a Kenyan export, or the reverse. Here is how to tell them apart.
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Rates & costs
Air vs road freight to Juba: how to decide
Not a question of which is cheaper. A question of what a week of waiting costs you.
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Container shipping
Container detention and demurrage explained
Three charges, two organisations, two clocks running at once. Confusing them is expensive, and almost everyone does it at least once.
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Container shipping
FCL vs LCL shipping to South Sudan: how to choose
LCL looks cheaper on the freight line and often is not by the time the goods are delivered. Here is how to work out which you actually want.
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Container shipping
40ft container shipping to Juba: when the bigger box is cheaper
Twice the space for well under twice the transport cost. For cargo that cubes out, the 40ft isn't the expensive option. It is the cheap one.
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Container shipping
20ft container shipping to Juba: what fits and what to check
A 20ft runs out of weight before it runs out of space. That one fact decides most of what follows.
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Rates & costs
Mombasa to Juba transport costs: every charge, listed
The freight rate is often less than half the total. Here is every charge that can arise on a Mombasa to Juba move, and which organisation levies it.
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Rates & costs
What drives Nairobi to Juba cargo prices
Weight is only one input. Here is everything else that moves the number on a Nairobi to Juba quotation, and what you can control.
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Shipping guides
How to ship goods from Kenya to South Sudan: a step by step guide
If you have never shipped on this corridor before, this is the order to do things in, and the decisions that have to be made before anything moves.
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