Customs clearance
Customs clearance tracking for forwarders and brokers
A held container costs money every day it sits in the yard. CargoSharks puts every declaration on one board, ordered by the clearance deadline that closes first, so the next problem is at the top. It tracks clearance; it does not file to customs systems, and it says so.
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01 · The board
Every declaration, and the clock it runs against
- Ordered by deadline. Not newest first and not by reference: by which clearance deadline expires soonest.
- Status through to release. Documents pending, declaration filed, assessed, duty paid, inspection, held, released, with declaration type and number, broker and duty on each row.
- Holds on the board. Held and inspection-required are counted at the top, because those are the two that mean somebody must act.
02 · Duty
The duty estimate, before the declaration goes in
A duty estimate from the tariff table is on the job before filing, so the customer hears the number from you rather than from the assessment. The customs pack, a PDF in Arabic or English generated from the job, carries it.
03 · The broker
A role for the broker, and only what it needs
The customs broker role records and updates declarations, records duty paid and updates the shipment fields clearance depends on. It cannot price, invoice or close a job, which also means nothing else can go wrong under that account. Clearance milestones sit on the same job file as the free-time clocks, so a slow release shows up as the demurrage it is causing.
One container: five free days, then KWD 28.000 a day
The boundary
What it does not do
We would rather say this than imply otherwise.
- Filing to customs systemsDeclarations are not filed to MicroClear in Kuwait, to the UAE customs systems or to the Saudi customs platform. Your broker files; the system tracks.
- Advance cargo filing (MPCI)UAE pre-load cargo information filing is not supported.
- Tariff classificationThe duty estimate uses the tariff table you hold. It does not classify goods for you.
Do you file customs declarations?
No. We track them across the whole clearance lifecycle (type, number, status, duty, broker and clearance deadline) and estimate the duty before the declaration goes in. We do not file to customs single windows, including MicroClear in Kuwait.
Can an outside broker use it?
Yes. The customs broker role is deliberately narrow: declarations, duty paid and the shipment fields clearance depends on, in the branches it is given.
How is the duty estimate worked out?
From the tariff table held in the system, against the goods on the job, before the declaration is filed. It is an estimate; the assessment is the authority’s.
Does a customs hold affect demurrage?
It is on the same file. The free-time clocks run per container regardless of customs status, so a container held past its free days writes its own charge line and you see both on one screen.
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