U.S.
HEADQUARTERS
ALLIANCE
USA – AN OVERVIEW
The Alliance ( U.S.A.) Headquarters located in the central
South-Eastern hub of Atlanta Georgia, controls the Group’s
stateside consolidation activities both on an import and export
basis.
 The U.S. office was primarily
established to serve the brokerage and forwarding needs of The
Alliance Group (U.K.) being the first U.K. freight forwarder
to comply with the amended legislation contained within the
1984 Shipping Act, and was subsequently the first forwarder in
the U.K. to file full freight tariffs with the Federal
Maritime Commission in Washington, along with an F.M.C.
N.V.O.C.C. bond valued at $50,000.00 ensuring security of
tenure for its extensive customer base.
The Atlanta office has quickly grown to a self-sufficient entity,
handling sea and airfreight cargoes not only for Alliance U.K. but
for over fifty worldwide agencies trading
both into and out of the U.S. and is managed by an experienced team
of Anglo-American staff, understanding and catering for the
multifarious needs of its global trading partners.
FOREIGN
AGENTS REPRESENTATION
 Alliance was established initially to
service the needs of the U.K. Group, but has as a result of
its bias towards transferring senior U.K. management to run
its U.S. interests, quickly gained a reputation for
understanding the differing needs of Commonwealth and European
shippers and freight forwarders, many of whom had failed to
secure the levels of service from their previously appointed
U.S. on-site brokers/freight forwarders, and many of whom are
now represented by Alliance in the U.S.A.
Have you suffered from the following problems with your U.S.
agents?
- Late repatriation of funds collected (ie. freight,
duty, disbursements etc)
- Varying rates of exchange used on the final remittance
of those funds
- Lost cargoes
- Poor customer service
- Lack of data and feedback with updates of impending
changes especially with duty rates, F.M.C. regulations
(ie.1984 Shipping Act/1990 Bonding)
- Poor or often non-existent marketing and sales
capabilities
- Promises made but never fulfilled
- Chapter 11 "Retreat"
Many of our existing global agencies have depressing stories of
U.S. reciprocating agents who have failed abysmally in the
performance of their duties – if you are one of these agencies and
are looking for a U.S. service that is "par excellence" -
contact us now.
SERVICES
OFFERED BY ALLIANCE U.S.A.
INCLUDE:
Import
Division (Sea/Airfreight)
- Fully bonded services with tariffs filed with the
F.M.C. in Washington
- U.S. Customs consultancy service for accurate tariff
interpretation for formal/informal entry purposes
- Automated broker interface (A.B.I.) at participating
U.S. ports including arranging Power of Attorney
- Interstate trucking and distribution services
- Order picking and processing including inventory
control
- U.S. Customs bonded warehousing and storage
facilities
- Transhipment and third party transactions
- Full import forwarding services, including customs
bonding (T.I.B.) F.A.K. rates (sea/air) for LCL or FCL
cargoes
- On-site agency representation for overseas agents, with
a full freight and disbursement collection service, agency
(sales) commission and marketing of joint services
Export
Division (Sea/Airfreight)
- Global groupage (LCL/LTL) services with highly
competitive freight rates for consolidated sea/air
shipments plus unbeatable F.A.K. rates for volume
shippers
- Prompt turnaround of freight rates quotations
- All export documentation including bills of lading,
U.S. Customs declarations, certificates of origin,
blacklist certificates, invoice certification and
legalisation
- Interstate collections from export terminal
delivery
- Nationwide (bonded) terminal receiving facilities
- Export packing and warehousing
- Full cargo insurance
- Bank presentation services for Letters of Credit
- Cross-trading arranged globally from the U.S.
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