PortTrade Cargo
International transport, customs clearance and logistics projects for cargo that needs specialized handling, combining modes and choosing the route by cost and transit time.
International transport and customs clearance
PortTrade Cargo builds logistics projects for cargo that needs specialized transport, such as oversized and overweight loads. It combines air, sea and road, compares route options by cost and transit time, and coordinates container stuffing.
Modes
- Air
- Sea
- Road
- Multimodal / Sea-Air
Coverage
- Mercosur / ALADI
- International Door to Door
- Special projects
Getting in touch
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Languages
Português · English · Español · 中文
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Group headquarters
Rio de Janeiro · since 2005
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Business Hours
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
PortTrade Cargo services
What the division does, service by service.
I need to import or export
From loading at origin to delivery at destination: mode, consolidation, warehousing and project cargo.
International Transport
Cargo transport by air, sea and road, including Mercosur/ALADI routes, Sea-Air operations, multimodal and Door to Door.
LCL & FCL Cargo
Ocean shipment in a shared container (LCL, Less than Container Load) or an exclusive one (FCL, Full Container Load), with space booked with the shipping line and special licenses for large cargo.
Pick-up and Transport
Collection at origin (export) or pick-up at the port and the airport (import), with transport to the final destination in a vehicle suited to the cargo and real-time tracking.
Container Stuffing
We coordinate the stuffing: load plan, weight distribution, lashing, photographic record and certification of the Verified Gross Mass (VGM), under the rules of ocean transport.
Warehousing and Distribution
Warehousing and distribution of the cargo after clearance, with the position of the goods reported in real time.
Special Projects
We coordinate imports of machinery for production lines and industrial plants: logistics planning, documentation, specialized transport, clearance and positioning at the installation site.
I need to clear my cargo through customs
Registration to operate in foreign trade, and clearance handled with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal).
Customs Clearance
We handle import and export clearance: tariff classification, checks on the documents and the goods, filing of the declaration in Siscomex and replies to queries from the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal).
RADAR
RADAR registration with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal), required before any company can file imports and exports in Siscomex. We review the paperwork and follow the application through to approval.
Special customs regimes
Goods entering or leaving the country for a set period, with suspension of duties and mandatory return.
Temporary Admission
Goods entering Brazil for a set period, with suspension of duties, for trade fairs, events and projects. We file the application, control the deadlines and handle the re-export.
Temporary Export
National or nationalized goods leaving the country for a set period, with mandatory return, for trade fairs, repairs and tests abroad. No Export Tax applies.
From the first contact to the delivered cargo
Four steps, so you know exactly what happens after you get in touch.
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Assessment
We go through the cargo, the route and the customs regime that applies. This is where the licenses and registrations your operation needs come up.
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Proposal
We set out the options for mode, route and regime, with the costs and the responsibilities of each party in writing.
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Operation
We handle documentation, shipment, customs clearance and transport to the destination, with a single point of contact throughout.
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Follow-up
You get the status of every stage and the paperwork of the operation organized, ready for your accounting team and for audits.
Common questions from importers and exporters
The six terms visitors look up most, plus the way into the full glossary.
Customs Clearance is the procedure by which the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal) checks whether the goods, the documents and the data declared in an import or an export are correct, and then releases the cargo.
It involves tariff classification under the Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM), customs valuation, document and physical inspection and payment of the duties. A classification error or a missing document brings a customs query, a fine, cargo held at the terminal and extra days of storage.
Our customs brokers file the declaration in Siscomex, follow the inspection channel it is assigned and answer the queries through to release.
RADAR (Registro e Rastreamento da Atuação dos Intervenientes Aduaneiros, Registry and Tracking of Customs Intermediaries) is the registration with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal) that authorizes a company to operate in Brazilian foreign trade.
There are three tiers:
- Express: operations up to US$ 50,000 per half-year
- Limited: operations up to US$ 150,000 per half-year
- Unlimited: no value cap
Without RADAR, a company cannot file a single operation in Siscomex. We review the paperwork, submit the application and follow the case with the Receita Federal through to approval.
Temporary Admission is the special customs regime that lets goods enter Brazil for a set period, with total or partial suspension of import duties.
It is used for events, trade fairs, exhibitions, sporting competitions and projects that need equipment for a limited time. At the end of the period, the goods are re-exported or their destination is regularized.
Grupo Port Trade prepares the application, follows the case with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal) and controls the deadlines and the ancillary obligations until the regime is closed.
Drawback is the special customs regime that relieves the import of inputs used to make products destined for export. It has three modes:
- Suspension: duties are suspended when the inputs are imported, conditional on the export of the finished product
- Exemption: duty-free replacement of the stock of inputs already used in an exported product
- Refund: return of the duties paid on inputs of products that were exported
In practice, the regime cuts the production cost of the exporter. We handle the registration, the application for the concession act and the control of the deadlines and the quantities evidenced.
International Multimodal Transport combines two or more modes (air, sea and road) in a single operation, under the responsibility of one operator.
We run Sea-Air (sea plus air), which sits between the cost of the ship and the speed of the plane, along with Mercosur/ALADI routes and international Door to Door service.
The combination of modes is set operation by operation, by the profile of the cargo, the transit time required and the cost.
LCL (Less than Container Load) is the shipment in which cargo from different shippers shares the same container. It suits volumes that do not justify an exclusive container.
FCL (Full Container Load) gives the whole container to a single shipper. It suits larger volumes, with less handling of the cargo.
We run both, with space booked with the shipping line, special licenses for large cargo and follow-up from origin to destination.
Need to ship or clear a cargo?
Send us the cargo and route details. We come back with a proposal covering mode, customs regime and cost.
