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Baltic Customs is a government agency whose task is to clear cargo arriving by sea and river in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. Administratively, it is part of the North-West Customs Directorate of the Federal Customs Service. Today, the Baltic Customs is the largest in the Russian Federation: according to statistics, about 20 million tons of cargo are processed there annually, and the amount of customs payments transferred to the budget is approximately 330 billion rubles. The total number of personnel at this customs office is now more than 1,300 people.
History of Baltic Customs
The history of this Russian customs authority began on November 15, 1703, when a foreign merchant ship arrived at the newly built port of St. Petersburg with a cargo of wine and salt. It was the very first commercial vehicle inspected in the harbor.
The current Baltic Customs was established on June 19, 1992. The main purpose of its creation was the need to separate the functions of internal and border customs, and its coverage area includes the water area, berths and adjacent waters of the seaport of St. Petersburg, as well as several sea checkpoints: Leningradsky, Nevsky, Vasileostrovsky, Litke base in Kronstadt.
Customs clearance in the seaport of St. Petersburg
Sea freight is considered a very old and proven method of transporting goods throughout the planet. They are quite developed and beneficial to many companies because they are very inexpensive, because operating a cargo ship is cheaper than paying for rail transportation services. This is due to the fact that the economic component for ships is more accessible than for trains, planes and cars.
Structure and departments of the Baltic Customs
Today, the Baltic Customs includes eight customs posts:
- Central;
- Kronstadt;
- Pargolovsky;
- Yaninsky;
- Pushkinsky;
- Harbor;
- Turukhtanny;
- Forest port.
They house customs clearance departments for cargo. In addition, the Baltic Customs also includes the following departments:
- Currency Control Department (CCU);
- Customs Value Control Department (OCTS);
- Risk Management System Application Department (RPSUR);
- Customs Transit Control Department (OCTT);
- Customs Payments Department (CPD);
- Department of Customs Statistics (OTS);
- Trade Restrictions and Export Controls Division (TREC);
- Department of Commodity Nomenclature and Origin of Goods (OTNiPT).
Registration at Pushkinsky transport station
When importing goods into the territory of the Russian Federation by road from the ports of Finland and the Baltic states, customs clearance is carried out at the Pushkinsky customs post, which operates in the “Dry Port” mode and operates at the terminals of the “First Container Terminal”. The address of the Pushkinsky customs post of the Baltic customs is the village. Shushary, Moskovskoe highway, building No. 54. Employees of Petra-Logistics, during customs clearance at the Pushkinsky customs post of the Baltic customs, ensure timely release of goods, have the opportunity to undergo customs control without inspection and inspection of cargo at the level of document verification.
At the posts of the Baltic customs, our company regularly carries out customs clearance of the following items of goods:
- machines and various types of equipment;
- machines, special equipment, automobiles;
- electronics, computer and household appliances;
- building materials, plumbing, stone products, marble, paints, fertilizers;
- clothing, shoes, textiles, toys;
- furniture, dishes, stationery, haberdashery;
- food, vegetables, fruits, flowers and other goods.
If necessary, the company provides assistance in passing veterinary and phytosanitary control procedures, carries out intra-port forwarding, etc.
Cargo cleared at Baltic customs
At the Baltic Customs, almost all categories of goods that are transported in its area of operation across the border of the Russian Federation are processed. The only exceptions are cargoes that must be cleared at Excise and Energy customs. As a border checkpoint, the Baltic Customs handles both export and import cargo, including those traveling in transit.
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Customs clearance services in the seaport of St. Petersburg
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Transport logistics – development of new or optimization of old transport routes
Warehouse logistics - placement of cargo in temporary storage warehouses, storage of cargo in transshipment warehouses.
Customs clearance (customs clearance/customs clearance) – collection and registration of a set of shipping documentation, selection of HS codes, filling out a customs declaration, electronic declaration, acceleration of the customs control process.
Terminal (intra-port) forwarding – loading of cargo for export / unloading of cargo for export, transit movement of cargo arriving by sea using railway transport, truck transport, air transport.
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