The General Directorate of Customs (DGA) informed today that cargo consolidation companies (movers or delivery) that receive the goods through the port of Haina can now transfer them by land to the authorized warehouses in Santiago and Puerto Plata.
The entity will allow these transfers after its general director, Eduardo Sanz Lovatón, met with representatives of these companies in New York to listen to their problems, and benefit through them to the dominican diaspora and their family members who use these services.
Of the 105 companies dedicated to the import of consolidated merchandise in the Dominican Republic, 31 operate in Santiago and Puerto Plata.
This provision seeks to decongest the warehouses of the port of Haina, a terminal that receives 22.8% of the containerized cargo that arrives in the country.
In a press release, Customs He explained that the consolidated containerized cargoes that arrive through the port of Haina are dispatched only after being inspected with x-ray technology. However, he indicated that these loads, due to their characteristics, will later be physically inspected in the warehouses of the institution in the northern region.
It is also expected that the distribution of these shipments, which have historically been sent to relatives in the north, will be speeded up so that they reach their final destination in less time.
“It is a service that we provide mostly to the Dominican community abroad and a very important complaint that they had is that much of that cargo is destined for Cibao,” explained Sanz Lovatón.
The official held a meeting in the United States last March with the Federation of Cargo Consolidators of the Dominican Republic (Fecodeca) -which brings together 105 shipping companies that operate in the United States and the Dominican Republic-, and the associations of Cargo Consolidators of the Dominican Republic (Acoredom) and Cargo Consolidators of the North Region (Acocarenor).
