Blue Bird Cargo Pvt. Ltd. provides LCL Consolidation at all major cities worldwide. The process of LCL consolidation involves the movement of less than container load cargo from an Inland Container Deport to a nominated hub terminal & terminal under customs seal, usually in a domestic container of some sort.
At the nominated hub terminal, the sealed containers are opened and the cargo re-worked on a destination wise basis without having to be subjected to re-examination by customs. Indian customs permitted the reworking of LCL boxes in certain Nominated port cities. This opportunity has already led to maximum increase in the business area of LCL consolidation in the country. Export LCL Consolidation of different ICD’s custom cleared Cargo, often along with locally cleared LCL cargo makes for must faster clearance of cargo and reduces the end to end transmit clock between the originating points and destinations of cargo being moved. Reduced transit time of LCL hub has given opportunity to shippers to move their LCL consignments faster at extremely cost effective prices. LCL movement from Terminals to Port is taking place both by Rail as well as by Road. At present, Dronagiri Node is the major consolidation hub for LCL cargo.
- Some Features of this service:
- Most services are moved as per regular period or ongoing-basis to ensure connectivity with ship sailing from the gateway ports after reconsolidation at CFSs/terminals at Gateway Ports.
- The cargo is moved either in containers or close body trucks arranged by the consolidator.
- For exports, all customs formalities relating to cargo examination etc. are completed prior to the movement of cargo. Shippers have to give a copy of the invoice and packing list of each shipping bill, to be checked at the consolidation terminal, and subsequently forwarded to the hub centre. Blue Bird Cargo issues a delivery order to each of the parties to enable them to collect the cargo from hub centre.
- We accept LCL cargoes from CHAs, Consolidators and shipping lines irrespective of the volume of the cargo available with every one of them.