Export

Americans and Canadians wishing to export goods will benefit from the deep knowledge and experience of Export-Import Inc. staff of professional freight forwarders.

They can navigate the latest regulations, minimize paperwork, expedite transit, and lower shipping costs with truly personalized service. Export-Import representatives attend the latest seminars and keep abreast of industry changes.

Rosa Camasta, in the Chicago office, has been guiding shippers on the best way to move their goods over sea, truck and air since 1980. She knows to ask if certain merchandise is temperature or moisture sensitive, and should be booked below a steamship’s deck, or if certain airlines should be avoided for excess delays.

Personal effects, food items, autos – Rosa’s shipped them all. “One time I did matching Porsches,” she says. “His was black, hers was white.”

But Rosa also handles less glamorous items too, such as huge boring and drilling machines, auto parts and once, even a 20-foot container of condoms headed for the Far East.

“Experience is important; you have to know what you are doing, how to pick up freight and book it, how to prepare an inland bill of lading,” said Rosa “You need to know if a shipment contains licensed goods, or dangerous goods, or if the shipper is unaware if they are sending merchandise to a boycotted country. If that is the case, if the U.S. government would find out, there will be penalties and there will be delays.”

Rosa roots for the shippers. She wants them to achieve their deadlines, realize cost savings and expand their sales. She is generous with her hard-earned knowledge and will prepare freight estimates to potential customers or counsel her customers on related shipping questions without reservation.

Her clients reward her with their business year after year, and clearly consider her a part of their team.

Freight forwarding services:

• Breakbulk and Transloading from one country to another
• C.O.D. Shipments
• Consular Legalization, required by different nations.
• Hazardous Materials Certification
• LCL, or Less than Containerload shipments to enhance cost savings for smaller shippers.
• Letters of Credit and related documentation
• NVOCC, or Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier. We have the ability to reserve large quantities of space on steamships at reduced rates. We offer that space to smaller shippers.
• Warehousing Storage and Distribution with bonded and non-bonded facilities