A service developed for voluminous and/or sensitive goods. Meticulous handling and insurance in case of damage.

• At the bottom of the building or at the entrance of the house. This is our basic offer based on the same routes to deliver to stores as well as private individuals.

• Floor lifting and installation. Study on request for delivery circuit in teams of two (driver + handler installer).

Many of our clients are implementing true Kanban loop strategies for sustainable and reusable packaging. When we implement such methods, they lead to more efficient storage, reduced space requirements to store products and lower unit costs.

Contrary to online platforms which claim the best punctual price on a transaction, BBL group has made the choice for years to preserve a human relationship with our customers as well as with our drivers and our chartered carriers. The value is built in relationship which takes into account the needs of the shippers and the respect of the work of the truck drivers. For a fair price, a guarenteed quality service in the long run.

We can organize your own groupings by consolidating your pick-ups from several locations. For our best customers, we provide an online tool to optimize the vehicles and containers loading.

Cf Free Webtools here.

These solutions are certainly slower and sometimes more expensive than a simple road transport solution, but this can be an advantage for those who want to control the timing of their upstream flows: They get free days of “storage”… on water or rails.

The statistics generated by automated track & trace platforms can be quite useless or even frustrating. When an anomaly occurs, the information often arrives too late and does not allow any corrective action. That’s why BBL Group has chosen to preserve a strong human intervention in its organization of tracking your shipments.

The repositioning of empty containers can be a real headache, especially during peak periods. Our teams help you to anticipate.

• to find empty containers when you need them
• to avoid paying detention fees by negotiating franchise days and preventing any delays in the execution of the transport (customs clearance, post-carriage, etc.).

For the shipping industry, your booking does not guarantee you an effective boarding on the desired ship and at the desired time. Maritime flows are by nature unbalanced in space (empty returns Europe > Asia) and in time (peak season). This makes it very difficult for shippers to ensure the effective departure of their shipments and avoid paying too high a price. Our experts will help you to make the best choices, knowing that long-term partnerships allow a real optimization of your transportation costs.

For security reasons and speed of loading, air freight is invoiced and transported in loading units. These can be aircraft pallets (cargo flights) or ULD goods standardized by IATA (Unit Load Devices) for cargo transported in the hold of passenger aircraft.

Find the main air cargo units in our free webtools

Air transportation is charged on the taxable weight of a unit load. This volumetric weight is calculated on the basis of a standard of 1 ton = 6m3. This means that the taxable weight is equal to the greater of the gross weight of the goods to be transported and its volume in m3 divided by 6.

To begin with, the volume in m3 of your merchandise must be divided by 6.

• If the result is bigger than the gross weight of the goods (in tons), then the taxable weight will be the result of this calculation.
• If the result is fewer than the gross weight of the goods, then the taxable weight will be your gross weight.

This is the advantage of the air groupage that BBL CARGO will implement on your behalf by mixing heavy and light freight.

The essential advantages of Rail solutions are the gain in transit time compared to a sea shipment. However, it is necessary to take into account the time needed to get your goods to the loading station and the time needed to transport them by road to the final destination.

A DCN covers all customs clearance operations carried out by BBL Group and its subsidiaries. This system allows us to centralize the declarations to the customs office of Lille, whatever the physical point of entry of our customers’ goods in Metropolitan France. Indeed, our DCN covers 27 entry points all over the territory (main ports and airports) where we operate.

Any exchange of goods for Export or Import from our national borders is subject to one or the other of the obligations provided for in terms of customs declaration.

GED: the Goods Exchange Declaration submitted monthly covers all your intra-community exchanges of goods. There is a limited amount of information to be filled in and the reporting burden varies according to the level of your company’s activity.

When the goods definitively leave the territory of the European Union, it is then necessary to draw up an Export Declaration accompanied by a S.A.D. (Single Administrative Document).

Nota Bene: since January 1st, 2021, it is no longer possible to carry out customs formalities by mail and in paper version, it is necessary to carry them out online from the customs platform DELTA.

Requesting a BTI, Binding Tariff Information, consists in having the tariff classification (Species) of a good established directly by the customs administration of one of the 27 member states of the European Union. Once issued, the BTI will be binding on the customs services of all these States for a period of up to three years.

This is the best way to protect against any dispute with the customs administration, which may otherwise at any time challenge the classifications applied.

The definition of the preferential origin of a good can be challenged at any time by the customs administration under the complex provisions of free trade agreements.

Each of these agreements is based on common principles (concept of totally acquired products, sufficient working or processing, tolerances for the incorporation of the non-originating materials…etc) but there are a good number of dubious situations or will apply each national legal specificities.

As for the BTI with the tariff species, one can thus ask the administration to guarantee the origin of a good on the basis of the evidence provided.

The BCR will indicate for a given good the origin, the applicable trade policy measures, the common external tariff and, possibly, the presence of reduced or zero customs duties.

As soon as the volume vindicates it, BBL Group’s declarant teams encourage our customers to implement computerized gateways to avoid double entries as well as manual input errors.

Our systems range from simple online forms adapted to your needs to the implementation of your regular EDI flows between your systems and ours.

Special arrangements allow non-EU goods to be imported into the European Union (EU) under suspension of customs duties, VAT and trade policy measures, in order to store, use or process them, before re-exporting them outside the EU or placing them on the European market. Apart from transit, there are five special arrangements: temporary admission, end-use, customs warehousing, inward processing and outward processing.

The application of these procedures is often complex and requires a high level of expertise. Our CUSTOMS specialists can assist you in defining these mechanisms in your company and ensure their day-to-day implementation.

The ATA carnet (Temporary Admission) replaces the various customs documents normally required for a temporary import, temporary export or transit operation and thus allows foreign trade operators to carry out their operations under suspension of duties and taxes.

This procedure applies in many cases where the initial admission implies a return to a given deadline:

• Fairs and exhibitions : Vehicles, equipment, samples and packaging.
• Works of Art on loan (temporary exhibitions)
• Personal belongings (sportsmen, musicians) on tour/travel
• Animals

The ATA Carnet can be used in trade with States that have acceded to the Brussels ATA Convention (1961) and/or the Istanbul Convention (1990) to cover the temporary admission of goods.