Loading Certificates

Loading Certficates

OIC SERVICES, INC. is the authorized agent for the National Council of Angolan Shippers (C.N.C.A.-Conselho Nacional de Carregadores de Angola). C.N.C.A. is the Angolan government agency that regulates the implementation of Decree No. 19/94, dated 28 January 1994, published in the Statue Book of Angola D.R., May 1994.

The following is a summary of the National Council of Angolan Shippers’ regulation:

All cargo destined to Angola has to have an import license and every bill of lading has to be accompanied by a loading certificate. Only the C.N.C.A. or its agents have the authority to issue loading certificates.

Each bill of lading must have a corresponding loading certificate. Without a loading certificate, cargo will not be cleared.
Each loading certificate has a specific serial number that is duly signed, dated and stamped by the authorized C.N.C.A. agent.
To receive a loading certificate, the shipper has to pay the following Harbor Data Processing and Loading Certificate Fees:

20' Container, US$100.00/container
40' Container, US$200.00/container
Bulk/conventional, US$5.00 per w/m

Loading Certificate fees US$60.00 per bill of loading.

The above charges have to be collected at the moment that the cargo is loaded. Penalties for failure to comply with these regulations can result in a fine of US$5,000.00 per incident and a doubling of C.N.C.A. fees. For further information, please contact OIC SERVICES, INC. directly at:

12337 Jones Road - Suite 301
Houston, TX 77070
Telephone: (832) 912-6820
Fax: (832) 912-6864
E-mail: info@oicservices.com

Conditions for Discharging on Angolan Ports

Registration

- Max draft for Luanda e Lobito ports are 9, 5 mts. For Namibe is 10,5 (berthing in high tides). No other restrictions.

Delays

- Luanda is normaly congested ( average delay 2 days )
- Lobito and Namibe are normally available.

Discharging rates

Luanda- Each terminal has 2 shore cranes
- Discharging rate - 750 MT/ day- to trucks alongside. Working hours: 07H30/17H30 (1/2s ,s,excluded).
- If the receiver works during the night is normally possible discharge more 450MT, what makes a total day about 1.200 Mt/day. It's possible work s/s/h as extra hours.

Lobito- Discharging rate 750 MT a dat per wagon or truck. Working hours are 08H00/24H00. (1/2s,s,h excluded).
- First day operations steverdores stop at 20H00. It's possible work s/s/h as extra hours

Namibe- Discharging rate - 400 MT/ day- to trucks alongside. Working hours: 08H30/20H00 (1/2s ,s,excluded).
In Namibe is not possible to work s/h

- The mentioned figures above are depending on others facts as follows:

The capacity of trucks company. It means if there are enough trucks to assist the operation of discharge and not obliged stops operations for missing trucks. The company trucks also have influence in the rate of loading. The localization of Warehouses receivers - means that some receivers have warehouses in some dangerous places that obliged not moving trucks to there between some critical hours. The quality and numbers of receivers warehouses- means that that if vessel discharge quickly that the capacity of receivers, sure that in a minute will come a trucks congestion at receivers house and the trucks begins missing alongside vessel. The shore equipment has normally more than 30 year old, what means that some stops for damages are frequently. So is important ship crane capacity
Documents

The Agent needs the following documents:

Cargo manifest;
Cargo plan; and ship particulars
Copy of the B/L's.

The receivers needs in advance the following documents, so the custom clearance and the payments can be done in advanced, before vessel's arrival:

Original B/L
Certificates of origin, quantity and quality and phitosanitary
C.R.F( cleaning find info report) by BIVAC
CNC waiver. (Angola Shippers Council)

For more information visit: http://www.orey.com/angola/english/portsangola.asp