Mohamed Mahmoud

Senior Import Specialist, Clearance at Baalbaki Chemicals Industries

• Egypt - Cairo
• My current job since January 2022

Tracking of incoming shipments.
To ensure the clearing of good from the Customs within the shortest possible time.
Oversee the overall assignments of the Airfreight and Sea freight Customs Clearance Agents.
Receive and verify necessary clearing documents from Foreign Suppliers.
Follow-up with the Customs Brokers for clearance of imported items within the shortest
possible time and/or the agreed time frame.
Request and get approval for payment of Customs Duty on non-exempted items. Forward
the advance payment requests to Accounts for releasing the cheque.
Receive invoices from Custom Broker, analyze and get approval for payment from the
Accounts Manager and passing it to Accounts.
Keeping records of all demurrages, detentions, etc. and follow up with the concerned buyers
for settlements and implements preventive actions to avoid customs penalties.
Following with banks and request of Form 4 and L/Gs.
Creating ACIDs with NAFEZA platform and upload docs with Cargo-X.
Assign freight forwarders whenever needed and negotiate to get the best rates.
On time updates to the ERP system for all the details of the shipments.