Customs Clearance in Port Should be Forbidden?

In order to improve the situation with import cargo customs clearance it is necessary to forbid providing customs clearance in the port, suggested deputy director of Eurosib Terminal Alexander Puchkov, who was formerly the head of the largest maritime customs house in the country, the Baltic Customs.

He believes that everyone will benefit from such a decision. The city administration will receive increased tax revenues from the dry ports. The stevedore companies will be able to increase traffic and get rid of the containers stored at the their terminals. And the logistics terminals will have more clients.

Nowadays the lowest limit of the customs value in the Saint-Petersburg Customs is higher than the one in the Baltic Customs, therefore everybody prefers to have their cargo cleared in the Big Port of Saint-Petersburg, explains A. Puchkov.

And as far as cargo owners have a choice to clear cargo in the port or beyond its limits, no one will leave the port because the extra expenditures on intra-customs transit make goods incompetitive in comparison with those cleared in the port.