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DGX - Dependable Global Express

8/1/2018

Dear Valued Customers,

 

The following is provided for your information:

 

Holiday Schedule

The following offices will be closed in celebration of their local holiday:

Philippines	Ninoy Aquino Day National Heroes Day	August 21 August 24
Singapore	National Day Hari Raya Haji	August 9 August 22

 

Please remember that certain offices are across the International Dateline. The dates above are their dates, not the actual U.S. date.

 

Rate Changes

 

The following rate changes apply to origin/destination, respectively:

 

 

RATE TYPE	EFFECTIVE DATE	DESCRIPTION	AMOUNT OF INCREASE OR DECREASE
Low Sulfur Surcharge (LSS)	8/2/2018	USA to Australia and New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti and Papua New Guinea	FCL: $27/20' $54/40' (decrease) LCL: $1wm (unchanged)
EFAF/BAF	8/2/2018	USA to Australia and New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti and Papua New Guinea	FCL: $684/20' $1368/40' (Increase) LCL: $3wm (unchanged)

 

 

Marmorated Stink Bug Season Measures for Shipments to Australia

 

The Marmorated Stink Bug Season will begin September 1, 2018 and will end on April 30, 2019. During this period, all” high-risk” commodities are required to be fumigated at origin to avoid delays and extra costs upon arrival in Australia. 

The final measures have not been released as of yet however a first draft has just been published by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. 

For detailed information on this topic please refer to the below link:

 

http://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/before/pests/brown-marmorated-stink-bugs

 

We will inform you once the final measures have been released.

 

 

24 Hour Advance Manifest Rule-GACC

 

The General Administration of Customs China (GACC) recently released a new regulation on their current 24-hour advance manifest rule. This new requirement is for overseas shippers to provide their organization code or enterprise code (i.e. "USA Shipper provides EIN/CIK/equivalent.”) for any shipment exported into Mainland China. For any shipment imported shipped from China, the destination consignee should also provide its own organization code or enterprise code to GACC timely. Any such information should be provided before ETD of the sailing and any delay in providing this information will result in a customs penalty in China. 

 

If you are a DGX Customer, we will coordinate ensuring this information is properly filed with Customs in China. We appreciate your understanding with respect to this new requirement. We look forward to working with you to avoid any such China Customs penalties.

 

 

Hawaii to International Destinations

 

When you have a shipment for an international destination moving ocean carriage to Los Angeles prior to export, please be advised that freight must be received at our Honolulu facility on Tuesday by 3:00 P.M. Hawaii time, to be loaded on that week’s vessel headed to Los Angeles.  Should you want us to pick up your shipment, we need to plan it the previous day, so our cutoffs for ordering a pick up on freight destined initially to the US Mainland are Monday by 3:00 P.M.

 

We would like to share some recent news from our DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express blogs, with the below being a “cut and paste” effort from our DHX.com website, and Facebook page(s):

New Honolulu Warehouse

 

 

A Win-Win for Honolulu: Shipping, Distribution, and Logistics

 

If you’ve looked at DHX.com or our social media pages, you have seen our current major project in the works – we’re building a new warehouse and distribution center in Honolulu.

 

This facility is different than our other owned freight-handling facilities located in Southern California, Maui, Kona, and Guam because the ground was contaminated with oil and gas byproduct waste.

We bought four acres of land that has lain barren for over 20 years while being remediated. It was an eyesore to those working in the area. The property was not contributing positively to Hawaii or the community. We are now furthering the remediation process to the point the land can be useful and productive. We will be turning the four acres into a state-of-the-art public warehouse and distribution center. The building will be located within 10 minutes of the port in an area off Nimitz Highway.

 

DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express is proud of what we are going to be contributing to Oahu's economy and future. Not only does the property itself become productive, but with 4,000 pallet positions for storage, we’ll help ease the current shortage of public warehousing in the industrial part of town close to the port. A land lot with thousands of plastic pipes jutting in and out of the ground will be replaced by a new, clean facility providing job opportunities during construction and thereafter. Once open it will allow us to move out of a building that is 70+ years old and very inefficient into something new.

 

Help us celebrate this for the community and for the businesses needing our offerings. A complete win-win!

 View our progress on our Facebook page.

 

 

Beard for Buck$

 

About Charity, a Beard and a New Warehouse: By Brad Dechter

As you may be aware, we’re building a new warehousing facility in Honolulu. To make a long story short, we received the signed agreement to purchase the property, vacant land, on a Saturday during the period of the major league baseball playoff chase in 2017. On that Saturday in September, I decided, like so many LA Dodger players in their quest to win the World Series, to not shave again until the prize was won—in this case, our new warehousing facility opening. I then flew over to Oahu when we had to arrange to finance both the land purchase and building construction. I told the bankers that I was growing my beard as a daily reminder of our commitment to getting the project done, so every morning when I stand in front of the mirror, I am reminded of my responsibility to complete our project.

During one of my visits to Honolulu, I became aware that the fence on the perimeter of the property served as a “lean-to” area that homeless folks had been using to support their temporary shelters. They were camping in certain areas around the outside of the fence. This visual sparked an idea for me to believe that something good could come out of this construction project and the beard!

I went out to our partners and vendors involved with the project and asked for volunteers to donate to a charity that helps the homeless. Upon reaching out to volunteers including Massdec (the developer) and DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, Inc. (both owned by us), six additional companies or individuals agreed to donate $250 an inch to charities assisting the homeless. That's $2,000 an inch. We then had three other companies join us, bringing the number of companies to eleven as of this post, or $2,750 an inch. My beard is now five inches long, growing slowly, meaning we’ve already earmarked $14,000 for charity. The facility has another 8 months before completion, during which I hope the beard will grow an additional 5-7 inches (may I add much to my wife’s dismay– she really hates it)! But it’s for a great cause.

I would like to thank the following participants:

• American Savings Bank (Financier) and Dan Oshima, its Vice President
• Central Pacific Bank (Financier)
• Massdec LLC (Developer)
• DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, Inc. (Lessee)
• Honolulu Builders (Contractor)
• Anonymous Officer at Massdec’s Environmental Consultant
• Anonymous Officer at our Ocean Carrier to Hawaii
• Cades Schutte and the Cades Foundation
• MC Architects (Architect)
• Honolulu Freight Service- Mike Beidleman
• Matson Giving Pacific Committee

Again, these participants have already raised $14,000 to be donated to charities!

Our campaign was developed to raise money for "every inch" of beard hair grown by me, President Brad Dechter of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, until the Grand Opening of our new warehouse in Honolulu, HI. The progress of the Beard for Buck$ campaign will be documented monthly here on our company Facebook page. Our primary goal is to help end homelessness in Honolulu through the provision of charitable donations from a group of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express partners and friends. It initially started as a campaign within our partners, but others have now joined in, and we have now opened the campaign to everyone who would like to help contribute to our cause! Your contribution supports the two charity organizations involved, but specifically for the homeless outreach programs in Honolulu. Your involvement and donations can be in any increments including $1 or more per inch and/or specific pledges of your choice (one-time donation, etc.) 100% of the donations will go to Kahauiki Village 

http://www.kahauiki.org/ and The Salvation Army-Hawaiian and Pacific Islands 

https://fundraise.salvationarmyhawaii.org/…/beard-f…/c184542. We hope that you join us in this fun, yet charitable cause. #beardforbucks #honolulu #hawaii

 

 

We will be posting monthly updates, with beard pictures to our Facebook page (Beard for Buck$ Photo Album). Just so you know, for a single donation of $10,000, I, the president of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, and DGX (Dependable Global Express) would be willing to dye the beard  purple, one of the official colors of Dependable Supply Chain Services, for a month!

For $25,000 and I’ll dye the beard and my hair, too! It’s all for a great cause, folks!

 

To view current progress and updates, please visit the DHX Blog

 

Should you have additional questions or scheduling concerns, please contact your local office or contact our DGX at 888-488-4888 or at 310-669-8888. For DHX Customer Service Center call us at 800-488-4888, Ext. 2020.

 

For Hawaii news updates see News Updates at www.dhx.com. 

 

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