Less than Container Load (LCL) service from Asia to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
Table of contents: About us in Georgia and in the world What is the meaning of LCL-Georgia? Service description Additional services description Our advantages Contact list
About us in Georgia and in the world F.S. Mackenzie, the privately-owned international freight forwarding company was founded in 1951 and has the HQ in Bassildon, Essex, United Kingdom. - Annual Group turnover more than GBP 100 mln.; - 15 own offices in 6 countries; - Strong network in ex-ussr region with 8 own offices in Ukraine and Russia with more than 100 people of staff; - Regular and weekly LCL service from Asia via Ukraine to Poti and Tbilisi since middle of 2012; - More than 500 cbm of LCL cargoes from Asia to Caucasus countries monthly; - Own driving and fast growing service LCL-Georgia.
What is the meaning of LCL-Georgia? LCL Georgia is our own driving and growing Less than Container Load sea freight service from different countries of Asia and America to Georgia and Azerbaijan. Our company offers own regular LCL lines via Poti port right now: Hong-Kong hub - Poti - Tbilisi (weekly service, 35 days) Singapore hub Poti Tbilisi (bi-weekly service, 32 days) Shanghai Poti Tbilisi (weekly service, 35 days) Our nearest plans are to open following LCL line: Ningbo - Poti - Tbilisi (would be opened in Spring 2017) Having the possibility to consolidate cargoes in each of this ports (hubs) our company offers the strong service network worldwide. Basing on our experience and deep LCL market specifics knowledge, we can offer you delivery of your small cargo from every port of the world with fixed transit time, rate and regularity.
Service description 1. We get your booking and contact with shipper to proceed with your cargo; 2. Our agent pick-ups the cargo to our consolidation CFS as soon as the cargo is ready. We could make the pre-carriage to the nearest sea port if your cargo is on EXW/FCA basis or accept the cargo on FOB basis which is more often; 3. We consolidate all the available LCL cargoes on CFS and use the Intra-Asia daily LCL lines for delivery to our hubs in HKG and Singapore; 4. We are sending consol containers with those shipping lines who offers shortest possible transit time to Poti or Batumi, with our further truck delivery to Tbilisi; 5. We send the HBL for your verification and make all corrections per your instructions; 6. We provide you with actual cargo location according to the agreed route; 7. We get the delivery payment before releasing your cargo as the basic service terms.
Additional services description Besides the main LCL service, we provide variety of additional services, which are: 1. Pick up of cargo at country of origin including wide range of local services in Port of Loading; 2. Possibility to release the cargo either in Tbilisi, Erevan and in Baku as well as deliver your LCL cargo to door after custom clearance; 3. Custom clearance services either in place of origin in Asia or place of destination in Tbilisi; 4. Long term or short term storage of cargo on warehouses in Asia and Tbilisi; 5. Additional packing/unpacking as well as consignment grades of cargoes arriving from different ports in different time either to one truck or FCL in Asia; 6. Different types of cargo insurances during all route of delivery or only part of it.
Our advantages Regular and stable service. Our company provides LCL consolidated containers arrival via Poti to Tbilisi on a weekly basis. We use Batumi as a port of entry in winter for quicker delivery. You can exactly plan transit time of your cargo. Neutral NVOCC status while offering our service to Freight Forwarding companies. We are 100% neutral to our clients, who are in 99% case Freight Forwarding companies. We guarantee that we never use any data which we got while our cooperation in any of ours sales/promotion or commercial purposes. Fast growing and competitive service. We develop our service during last 4 years already and can not allow ourselves to offer high rates or provide low service quality on the market. Constant LCL cargoes distribution to the Caucasus countries. We use Tbilisi custom terminal as a hub for the cargo distribution to Erevan and Baku. Having a regular volume to those destinations our company could offer weekly groupage trucks departures from Tbilisi to Armenia and to Azerbaijan (different trucks).
Contact details You could contact us using following details: Nina Inasaridze Operation coordinator e-mail: inasaridze@fsmac.ge mob: +995 599 08 99 22 David Bakuradze Operation coordinator e-mail: bakuradze@fsmac.ge mob: +995 591 08 99 00 F.S. Mackenzie LTD Axis business center, 5 th floor, D. Gamrekeli str 2, 0160 Tbilisi, Georgia Tel: +995 32 224 43 45 You could also get the full details of our service on our web-site: www.lcl-georgia.com