Sea Logistics Specialist

It's more than a job

As a member of the Freight Forwarding team Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in transporting goods, optimising processes, and fulfilling our customers' promises. And by transporting medicines, toys and important machine parts, you are not only delivering goods, you are making small and big moments possible for people all around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

Job Purpose

• To complete the daily processing of all Seafreight shipments and dispatch of freight, documentation, and any other related requirements.

• To help in increasing productivity of the National Seafreight Import Desk of Australia.

• To ensure high compliance is maintained in line with Australian Customs Guidelines.

• To ensure the overall accuracy of the entries being processed, which includes but is not limited to:

• • Sea Cargo Automation reporting and import shipment declaration to the Australian Customs Authority
  • Shipping Line and Co-Loader’s documentation archiving to the KN System
  • To ensure that the service expectations of customers are delivered with minimum to zero escalation and the behavioral expectations of the company are met and observed at all times.

Main Responsibilities

• Monitors all shipping line and co-loader's documentation that is necessary for the sea cargo lodgments and reports to the Customs Authority. These documents are necessary for the releasing and delivery of both BAL and non-BAL shipments handled by KN or with KN's participation.
• Initiate calls and meetings with the shipping lines and co-loaders involved to speed up the release of the shipping documents and/or to follow up on missing documents and/or incorrect document information.
• Notifies relevant parties in the AU local offices and origin departments with regards to the necessary actions to be done to release the documents from the shipping line and co-loaders.
• Coordinates LOA (Letter of Authority), OBL/Telex Release documents releasing with the origin departments, which is necessary for KN to obtain the delivery orders from the shipping line prior to the shipment ETA.
• Checks and reviews the correctness of the carrier and co-loader invoices and coordinates with the KN Accounts Department regarding the payments, and in parallel, performs the necessary transactions in SeaLog and other KN payment systems.
• Checks and reviews Shipping Line and Co-Loader's document information and/or details to match with the information indicated in SeaLog, and collaborate with the Managed Service and/or Sea Cargo teams for the necessary actions in case an incorrect or mismatched information is found.