Customs, Security & Insurance

CUSTOMS, SECURITY & INSURANCE

With our unrivalled network of customs brokerage offices, we understand better than anyone difficulties of cross border trade.
Our highly efficient customs brokerage, clearance and compliance service is designed to take the complexity out of the customs process. As well as moving your goods seamlessly across international borders, we ensure complete security in challenging environments and provide insurance against unforeseen events.

Zeal Transport Customs Services

The international trade and compliance landscape is rapidly changing, and global supply chains are facing major challenges:

Globalization and expansion of international trade: forging partnerships with service providers that have expertise across various geographies.
Increased demand for electronic data sharing: such as advanced shipment notification and sharing of compliance data.
A global trend towards a risk-based approach: requiring traders to share details of their shipments at any given time, such as pre-load, pre-departure and pre-arrival.
Increased awareness of regulations and compliance: now becoming a board level issue and a core focus among international trade companies.
Increased penalties for non-compliance: with an immediate impact on customers’ supply chain and financial bottom line.

It is in this climate that a Customs Broker with the ability to reduce complexity offers you a genuine competitive advantage.

Zeal Transport Cargo Insurance

Air & Ocean Cargo Insurance

Zeal Transport CARGO INSURANCE

Are you fully covered?

Should something go wrong when you’re shipping cargo, the compensation to which you’re entitled is normally calculated against a ‘limited liability clause’.

Under limited liability, damaged or lost cargo is assessed by weight, not value. So in all likelihood, your compensation could be dramatically less than the commercial value of the goods.

OUR SOLUTION FOR YOU

For a competitive premium, Zeal Transport CARGO INSURANCE will cover your freight against loss or damage from any external cause. Flexible to meet your needs it can be arranged as follows:

Ad-hoc Insurance Policy: one-off cover for a specific shipment.
Annual Insurance Policy: insures all Zeal Transport Global Forwarding shipments over the course of a pre-defined period such as one year.

Road Freight Insurance

Goods worth many billion Euros are lost or stolen every year, in Europe alone. In spite of the high quality and performance of Alacrity Transport Freight’s transportation solutions, shipment damage or loss can also affect our customers due to external causes.

In Europe the liability of road transportation service providers is typically limited by CMR regulations (Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road). However, in the event of a loss or damage these limitations are often not representative of the actual value of the goods.

Complementing its transportation services Zeal Transport Freight can upon request arrange your freight insurance. This gives you financial protection against most risks of physical loss or damage due to external causes. Thus, customers who utilize freight insurance set-up by Zeal Transport Freight can significantly reduce the financial impact associated with these unfortunate events.

In addition to arranging shipment insurance, Zeal Transport Freight takes a variety of proactive measures to ensure your freight’s safety. Comprehensive surveillance, padlocks, clamps and alarm systems, trucks marked on the roof with a license plate or a tactical number for aerial surveillance, emergency hotlines, second drivers on board – there are many things we are doing to protect your shipment throughout its journey.

Freight Security

As part of our efforts to establish a true security culture, Zeal Transport was one of the top global freight forwarder with an in-house security department and one of the first to receive the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) certification from the US Customs and Border Protection agency. Several of our programs have achieved C-TPAT ‘Best Practice’ accreditation by US authorities.

We manage freight security through a global incident reporting room and more than 100 highly secure locations, more than the entire forwarding and logistics industry. Each of these benefits from instant communication with local and international law enforcement authorities. We also use state-of-the-art risk assessment to ensure your assets are protected.

More than 100 security experts make sure that our standards are applied, assisted by more than 750 security nominees in each of the country organizations. With Security Awareness For Employees (SAFE), Zeal Transport has established a unique internal training program.

But we still feel that more could be done. Our goal is to become the benchmark for supply chain security in the industry. Zeal Transport has participated successfully in a trial as part of the Container Security Initiative (CSI), where security devices were tested to enhance sea container security. Our proven security guidelines on sealing LCL containers were adopted as best practice by several customers.