Cost savings: Lower operation expenses than HIT and elimination of tug boat and berth services

Competitions: Enable to compete with other shipping lines with the same mid-stream services

Efficiency:

a.       Faster transit time on through Bills of Lading inbound container to China under direct tackle connection/delivery to CCA feeder/barge (vice versa for China’s through Bills of Lading outbound container)

b.      Widening the scope of inbound container service by providing tackle delivery to Hong Kong consignee

Inauguration: Uni-Shine voyage 0074-149 arrived Hong Kong under Nov/16/1998

Liftings in Year 1999 and Year 2000:

Company

Position

Evergreen Star Hong Kong Ltd.

General agents

Floata Consolidation Ltd. 

a) Mid-stream cargo operator, responsible for all operations, supervise and co-ordinate with stevedore and barge operator. Floata is responsible to providing transshipment container receiving and delivery service with the backup of floating CY and yard facility.

b) Barge and depot operator, providing local container receiving and delivery, transshipment containers and with backup of container yard service.

River Trade Terminal Co., Ltd.

Terminal operator, sub-contractor of Floata Consolidation Ltd, mainly handle the release of inbound container to consignee and the transshipment container receiving and delivery.      

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General cargo under CY delivery and tackle delivery to consignee only

D.G. cargo acceptable 

No reefer cargo acceptable

No special commodity with license/permit required acceptable

Over-sized cargo must with prior enquiry and confirmation from party concerned

Official announcement on opening of services by UGMC TPE are the servicing ports locating within the vicinity of Guangdong Province and Fujian Province

 Official announcement of fleet assignments on service by UGMC TPE are as follows:

Direct tackle delivery is most economical. Delivery via water-front floating CY will be higher. The highest is via River Trade Terminal.

General cargo: 4 days in floating CY counting from date of vessel arrival (start of vessel operation) in Hong Kong. Date of delivery to CCA is also counted as 1 day.

General cargo: 10 days in River Trade Terminal counting from date of vessel arrival (start of vessel operation). Date of delivery to CCA is also counted as 1 day.

Timely and proper dispatch of G.E. manifest; amendments; consignee and/or notify party and/or cargo descriptions in Chinese version; will facilitate prompt connection of China transshipment container.

Unless of extremely commercial needs, otherwise better not to accept client’s request on designation of “CCA feeder company” and/or “Terminal of entry”. Reasons due in acceptance of such request may limit the chance of tackle delivery in Hong Kong and/or paying higher feeder freight and/or having our containers scattered to different place/ terminal in one single port and resulting empty container can not be pooled together in one or two CCA’s container yard.

Normally there are two separate gateways to deliver container (not counting Taiping). One is via feeder vessel to Yantian then onward movement via domestic trucking. The other is via direct cross-border trucking form Hong Kong. Must make clear with shipper on the requiremnet at time of booking. This is because the container via Yantian will store in water-front floating CY, while via direct cross-border trucking will store in Floata’s River Trade Terminal. Any mis-handling will cause extra cost and/or problem.