Grange Shipping

WELCOME

To the Grange Shipping Web Site.

We are an independent Shipping, Freight Forwarding, NVOCC and ERTS organisation based at Felixstowe, the leading container port in the United Kingdom

NEWS UPDATE (MARCH 2010):

ROAD FREIGHT - We are now able to offer a comprehensive trailer service - full and part loads, accompanied / unaccompanied to most parts of Europe. Please contact wendy@grangeshipping.co.uk or download a schedule here.

Please contact this office if you need any further information or advice on:

Statutory Authority - Export Examinations - From 1st April 2010 Hutchinson Ports (Felixstowe & presumably Thamesport) will introduce an Export Examination Surcharge of £142.20 to cover basic door-side export examination. Additional charges will be incurred if further handling is required. Please contact this office if you need further information.
Chinese New Year 14th February 2010 - As reported previously - capacity from the Far East into EU/UK is limited - Book your Freight Early!
New Port Health Procedures (and Charges) to apply from 1st January 2010 for imports of specified non-animal products from certain third countries.
Port Health Charges 2010 - revised (increased) rates to apply from 1st January 2010 will be published on our downloads page as they become available.

See our News Page for further articles.

We are company members of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, BIFA and are a FONASBA Quality Standards Approved Company. We trade under the conditions of BIFA 2005.

Please take a moment to browse our site. We hope it will give you an indication of who we are, what we can do and the services we can offer you.

Services & information

Ships Agency is attended on a country-wide basis. Our project cargo work covers hazardous goods including explosives, boats, cranes and planes, as well as the more bizarre - such as 2 white rhino's delivered alive and very much kicking!.

We charter ships and operate Warehousing and a Remote Transit Shed (RTS) within the Port of Felixstowe.

The company holds a UK Home Office Section 5 licence for the legal handling of certain kinds of arms and ammunition and is a member of the Explosives Industry Group of the CBI.

For Customs Clearance we have direct computer links with Felixstowe, Tilbury, Thamesport, Southampton and Liverpool. We are closely involved with Port Health and HM Customs issues including the New Export System (NES), CAP entries and the National Computerised Transit System (NCTS).

Our Links page includes updated links to HM Revenue and Customs and Shipping Lines. Further information including current Port Charges and an introduction to the company can be found on the downloads page.

The News page contains articles on rules for class 1.4S and Port Charges as well as Fumigation, Fuel Surcharges, Port Health updates, Vehicle Booking Systems (VBS) and implementation of the RHIDES driver identification scheme.