It's important to know about transit ports

"transit port" , sometimes also called "transit place" , refers to the port of destination from the port of departure, through the third port in the course of the journey, where the means of transport stop, load and unload the goods, supply and so on, the port of transit is the port where the goods are transshipped and continue to the destination. Here both the shipping company a one-time transit also because of the shipper duty-free reasons for the conversion of transshipment orders.

The status of the port of transit is that the port of transit is the base port, so the ships that call the port of transit are usually the large ships from the main international sea routes and the feeder ships to and from the ports in the region. Port of discharge/place of delivery = port of transit/destination? If only by sea, the port of discharge is indeed the port of transit, and the place of delivery is the port of destination. In booking, generally only need to indicate the place of delivery on the line, whether to transit, or to which transit port is decided by the shipping company. In the case of multimodal transport, the port of discharge is the port of destination and the place of delivery is the destination. As different ports of discharge will have different forwarding charges, so in booking must indicate the port of discharge. Transit Port of the wonderful use of tax exemption here to say is a staged transit. Tariff reduction can be achieved by setting the port of transit as a free trade port. If Hong Kong is a free trade port, if the goods to Hong Kong Transit; non-state special provisions of the goods, basically can achieve the purpose of export tax exemption, and even tax rebate subsidies. Hold cargo. This is a shipping company transfer. In International Trade, a variety of factors lead to goods in transit can not move forward, the need to hold goods. The consignor may apply to the Shipping Company for detention before arriving at the port of transit. The goods will be shipped to the destination port after the trade problem is solved. This is often easier to operate than a direct ship. But it's not cheap. PORT-OF-TRANSIT CODE A ship will call at more than one port, so there are many port-of-entry codes filed by a ship at the same dock, that is, subsequent port-of-transit codes. If the shipper fills in the codes at will, anything that doesn't match will keep the container out of port. If it matches but is not a real port of transit, then the ship will be discharged into the wrong port even after entering the port. If you change it to correct before shipping, the boxes may also be unloaded at the wrong port. Re-shipment costs are very high and may also be subject to heavy fines. In the course of international carriage of goods, goods need to be transshipped at certain ports or other places for reasons of geography or political economy. When booking a space, you need to limit the port of transit. But ultimately it is up to the shipping company to accept the transit here. If accepted, the terms of the port of transit are clear, usually with a notation after the port of destination, generally connected VIA or w/t (with transshipment at...) . Transit Port of Loading: Shanghai, China Port of Destination: London, UK w/t Hong Kong in practice, we can not treat transit Port as a Destination Port directly, to avoid shipping errors and unnecessary losses. Because the transit port is only a temporary port to transfer the goods, not the final destination of the goods.