Hurryup&wait:
Franglais:
N.B. for those who say “only move from loading point when all.papers are done”?
In the real world, when loaded vehicles go, and hope docs will be ready on arrival.at port. No boss will want a truck stood when it could be rolling.Nope, don’t load until you have the customs reference/movement number or whatever it’s called or you could be doing free warehousing for weeks or months.
How does this work then? Some gaffer has a lorry that’s supposed to go load in Factory X. Does the lorry a) wait in the yard until the paperwork is done? Mind you, it’s always “it’ll be finished any minute now”. Can’t allocate the lorry for another load, as the customer is already ■■■■■■ off that his finished product is sitting in the warehouse and not being loaded and on the way to mainland. So he demands a lorry the second the papers are ready.
Or b) the lorry gets loaded and sits around until the paperwork gets done.
Realistically, if there is a problem with the paperwork, the lorry will sit the same amount of time, as it is tied to the load. In the real world though, I have never had a load with either an Export declaration, TIR Carnet or whatever, where the papers were finished beforehand. You turn up, take the load and only then do the powers that be start with documentation. Sometimes you need to wait on the spot (crossing a hard border outside the EU) and sometimes you get a message with the MRN number way ahead of reaching the border (Norway for example)