Shipping to and from Eswatini Swaziland

Commodity

• Hazardous classes 1, 7 and 9, are all subject to approval before acceptance.
• No acceptance of Used Tyres
• No acceptance of Non DG charcoal
• No acceptance of Asbestos

Weight & Measurement

Specifically, for 20’ Containers:

• 24 TONS Maximum Payload for road haulage (inclusive of container tare weight)
• 22 TONS Maximum payload for railed containers (exclusive of container tare weight)

Specifically, for 40’ Containers:

• 28 TONS Maximum payload for road haulage (inclusive of container tare weight)
• 29.4 TONS Maximum payload for railed containers (exclusive of container tare weight)
• Overweight containers are subject to a fine imposed by the Government. Requests for movement of overweight cargo can be obtained from your nearest Maersk office.
• Effective 1 July 2016 the Shipper (or its representative agent) will be required to include the Verified Gross Mass (VGM) when submitting the pre-advise via NAVIS. The Navis update will update all Maersk systems and no further system updates is required from the Shipper.

Special Cargoes - No restrictions on movement of containers to inland points and are subject to rates supplied by your nearest Maersk office.

Bill of Lading Clauses - No special clauses/restrictions apply.

45' Containers - No acceptance of 45' containers.

Customs requirements - Customs documents (Cargo Dues + Bill of entry) are mandatory for Bill of Lading issue.

Detention Charges are applicable when the customer holds the line’s equipment longer than the agreed free time, detention days are counted from gate out empty to gate in full minus free days. The following charges are penalty surcharges when agreed free time has been exceeded and appear on applicable export shipments from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

The combined Freetime deals cover Detention only and not Demurrage. Demurrage is the storage charges incur in the terminal and no freetime is granted on storage as same is an out of pocket cost which is back to back recovery

From 15.08.2020 the Free Time deals will be applied based on the effective deals at the Price Calculation date – PCD