White Plains, New York, United States
Import Traffic Manager for quality food ingredients. Book containers from overseas to customers door and arrange all points in between. Daily communication with suppliers and customers to maintain on time shipments. File and track entries with US Customs (duty and tariffs). Manage supplier payments, claim deductions for smooth cash flow.
• Charter vessels to carry full scrap parcels and part steel and pig iron cargoes. • Manage staff that handled global transportation for over $1,000,000,000 of material per annum. • Oversee and attend vessel discharges/loadings worldwide to ensure proper handling of cargo. • Implemented pre slinging in the Far East improving stevedore production and reducing damage resulting in savings of approximately $500,000 per annum. • Introduced annual contracts with barge lines to various U.S. inland destinations. This ensured supply during peak season and resulted in a savings of approximately $200,000 per annum. • Reduce rates with railroads, stevedores, truckers and terminals. • Liaison on a daily basis with trading, finance, accounting and administration to ensure proper execution of the sale and purchase terms/conditions. • Plan loading/discharging with stevedores/terminals worldwide. • Supervise cargo surveys globally. • Manage transit claims, salvage sales and disposition with surveyors. • Charterer’s Legal Liability and Marine Insurance coverage management.
• Created monthly P/L reports for corporate offices. • Manage Just-In-Time inventory. • Coordinate financing with banks. • Interface with customers on a daily basis. • Oversee and attend vessel discharges/loadings to ensure proper handling of cargo. • Classifications (ADD/CVD) under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. • Arrange/supervise the sampling and analysis (assays). • Negotiate rates with truckers, stevedores and warehouses. • Coordinate foreign and domestic freight movements via vessel, barge, rail and truck.
• Negotiate rates with truckers, stevedores and terminals. • Arrange truck, rail and barge movements. • Attend vessel discharges as well as warehouses/terminals to ensure proper handling of cargo. • Track inventory as well as issue Just-In-Time releases of material. • A/R, A/P responsibilities, including invoicing customers.
• Preparation of documents for submission to U.S. Customs utilizing the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to properly classify cargo. • Negotiate rates with truckers, stevedores, terminals and coordinate movements. • Handle U.S. Customs issues including filing protests, in-bond movements of cargo and special manifests with custom house brokers.