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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
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DESCRIPTION
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AMOUNT OF INCREASE
OR DECREASE
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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)
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EFAF/BAF
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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.
Thank
you for your business - we appreciate it!