FIB can help you for your transportations!

Very often, during the negotiations, everyone is only thinking about perfecting its technical specifications and payment conditions.
In this case, the Incoterms are often forgotten because the customer believes that it will be easy for him to manage later on the aspects related to the shipment.

And then often begins a marathon during which everyone is getting out of breath!

First comes the choice of the forwarding agent! The customer sometimes has his preference and knows well a company in his country that cares for the shipment of his wires. But has this one an office in Belgium? The surprise sometimes appears that the said office in charge of Europe is located in Switzerland and has no correspondent in the port of shipment!

How many hours have so been lost for the desperate search of the forwarding agent’s office in Europe?

This office is then waiting for the instructions of the customer! Once more, the ambassador’s game is all the rage: the customer has to go through its local office that is then contacting its European forwarding agent that is in its turn contacting us! All this is of course quite costly and the commissions of the intermediaries are increasing the prices but do not, of course, accelerate the works!

Then comes the day of the shipment when, as it is regularly the case, we notice that the containers chosen by the forwarding agent are not large enough or do not allow the loading of the goods, contrary to the instructions given by FIB to its customer (for instance, some container boxes instead of open tops!).

All this is requesting an important energy and a heavy coordination from the customer as well as from FIB for a service aspect that is in fact not bringing any increase in value to the line!

Even worse, in some cases, the transportation costs of goods possibly manufactured abroad must be charged to the customer as the latter is insisting to have a departure from a fixed port!

The CIF Incoterm formula is therefore showing a lot of interests!

One of its main advantages is the complete management of the transportation by FIB Belgium so that the customer does not have to worry about this and can be fully available for organizing the installation of its future equipment. Once the material has arrived at the destination port, the customer is taking possession of his goods and is then managing the transportation of the goods on his territory where he can make the most of his relations and competences!

It is obvious that this procedure is allowing the customer to save a lot of time and money and our objective, let us be clear, is not to make money at our customers’ expense! On the contrary, if we have elbow room for shipping the material, we can, without any worries for the customer, fully ensure the first step of our mission that consists in the delivery in due time and at the lowest price of the good he has bought!

Are you convinced now ? Just care for the right organization of your planning for the assembly of this equipment that will allow you to be one length ahead of your competitors! FIB will be glad to deliver you your goods rapidly and with a huge flexibility, without any worries for your staff that, we must confess, has other things to do than caring for ships and containers!