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Key Benefits

  • Access to specialists in wool exporting regulations
  • Skilled at securing low margin transactions
  • Reducing  in-house shipping department costs

Capabilities

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You've got the wool; you've found a buyer; now all you have to do is get it there whilst protecting the small profit you've achieved. That's where AWF come in. Australian Wool Forwarders makes sure the wool gets containerised on time for specific vessel in accordance with sales contracts and/or letters of credit, provides accurate documentation for a hassle-free export.

Skills
What we are skilled at doing is:
  • Getting the merchandise carted to a centralisation depot by road or rail
  • Arranging to have the wool dumped
  • Organising the correct containers for shipping
  • Finding the most favourable vessel and ensuring the containers get to it on time
  • Fixing the insurance neXDOC®
  • Following up: sorting out the perceived L/C and quality discrepancies
 
Along the way we accurately prepare, obtain official stamps, and distribute all the paperwork necessary for your clients to receive the consignment in a timely and efficient manner.
 
AWF prides itself on maintaining the integrity of the documentation "pipeline": you may be confident that there will be no discrepancies between sales contracts, L/Cs and other documents,
 
Some of the documents:
  • Proforma invoices / invoices
  • Packing lists
  • Certificate of Australian Origin
  • Technical Certification: eg: AWTA, hazardous certificate, specific L/C certification, etc...
  • Health Certificate
  • Bill of Lading
  • Shipping line certificates
  • Insurance Certificates
 
Who might our customers be?
Overseas Wool Mills Overseas wool mills wanting to achieve the following:
Cut middle man
Cut cost of running a full export department in Australia
Using new technologies like the electronic bidding system
Using commission buyers
Australian wool growers/farmers Australian wool growers/farmers wanting to take control of their own exports by trading directly with their overseas buyers.
AWF is the tool the wool growers/farmers need to safely achieve their export.
Wool Trading houses Trading houses wanting to minimise their running cost by contracting their export work
Australian Wool Forwarders enables Wool trading houses to achieve a considerable saving
For more information specific to your neXDOC®, please send us a message: email, "Contact Us" or by phone.