DECLARE THE GOODS VS MISS DECLARE
What is the problem? as probably you know already most of the shipping lines don’t want to carry coconut charcoal. If you call liner and ask them for the price, the answer will be ”sorry, we don’t allow coconut charcoal on the vessel”. It all started in the earlier 2000s when MSC shipping lines set one of the containers on fire while shipping to Russia, since then most of the shipping lines decline to carry coconut charcoal. Then, how do you shipping? there are two ways of shipping coconut charcoal, one is DECLARE or mention coconut charcoal in the shipping documents such as Bill of Lading or B/L, this is the safest way and recommended of shipping coconut charcoal.
Most of the shipping lines treat coconut charcoal as dangerous goods (DG), not as general cargo. Even in the MSDS, our coconut charcoal is stated as safe and non subjected to self ignition based on the SHT test. Dangerous goods means that the container shell is placed on the special deck of the vessel, designed for dangerous goods. It makes the shipping more expensive. Shipping of DG will cost you 30-100% more than shipping a general cargo, for example shipping general cargo to USA is 5-7 thousand USD. But the shipping of DG is 15-18 thousand USD.
The second method of shipping is MISS DECLARE which strongly not recommended. Miss declare means that in the bill of lading we mention not coconut charcoal, but another safe product like parqueted, furniture, wooden handicraft, and anything that is not charcoal. With this method, you can get cheaper freight costs, as shipping lines accept you as a general cargo. But if the shipping line will find out that you ”miss declare” you will get a serious trouble, ZIM shipping lines will charge you about 30.000 USD, CMA 20.000 USD, and so on. This is a huge amount of money compared with the costs of goods
Besides it, you as buyer, shipping agent, and the factory will be blacklisted from most shipping lines, this is a big risk. Every year hundreds of containers with coconut charcoal are couched by shipping lines and are stopped and banned. As a reliable coconut charcoal factory, we strongly suggest using DECLARE, or mention method while shipping charcoal.
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