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DGX - Dependable Global Express
6/29/2018
Dear Valued Customers,
The following is
provided for your information:
Holiday Schedule
The following offices will be closed in celebration of
their local holiday:
Hong
Kong
|
HKSAR
Establishment Day
|
July 2
|
Japan
|
Marine
Day
|
July 16
|
United
States*
|
Independence
Day
|
July 4
|
*No schedule changes for the week of July 4th, all
cut-offs and departures will remain the same.
Please remember that
certain offices are across the International Dateline. The dates above are
their dates, not the actual U.S. date.
Rate Changes
The following rate changes apply to origin/destination,
respectfully:
RATE TYPE
|
EFFECTIVE DATE
|
DESCRIPTION
|
AMOUNT OF INCREASE
OR DECREASE
|
Low
Sulfur Surcharge (LSS)
|
7/4/2018
|
USA to
Australia and New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti and Papua New Guinea
|
FCL:
$28/20' $56/40' (Increase)
|
EFAF/BAF
|
7/4/2018
|
USA to
Australia and New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti and Papua New Guinea
|
FCL:
$654/20' $1308/40' (Increase)
|
24 Hour Advance
Manifest Rule-GACC
The General Administration of Customs China (GACC) recently
released a new regulation on their current 24-hour advance manifest rule. This
new requirement is for overseas shippers to provide their organization code
or enterprise code (i.e. "USA Shipper provides
EIN/CIK/equivalent.”) for any shipment exported into Mainland China. For
any shipment imported shipped from China, the destination consignee should also
provide its own organization code or enterprise code to GACC timely. Any such
information should be provided before ETD of the sailing and any delay in
providing this information will result in a customs penalty in China.
If you are a DGX
Customer, we will coordinate ensuring this information is properly filed with
Customs in China. We appreciate your understanding with respect to this new
requirement. We look forward to working with you to avoid any such China
Customs penalties.
Hawaii to International Destinations
When you have a
shipment for an international destination moving ocean carriage to Los Angeles
prior to export, please be advised that freight must be received at our
Honolulu facility on Tuesday by 3:00 P.M. Hawaii time, to be loaded on that
week’s vessel headed to Los Angeles.
Should you want us to pick up your shipment, we need to plan it the
previous day, so our cutoffs for ordering a pick up on freight destined
initially to the US Mainland are Monday by 3:00 P.M.
We would like to share some recent news from our DHX-Dependable
Hawaiian Express blogs, with the below being a “cut and paste” effort from our
DHX.com website, and Facebook page(s):
New Honolulu Warehouse
A Win-Win for Honolulu: Shipping,
Distribution, and Logistics
If you’ve looked at DHX.com or our social media pages, you have seen our
current major project in the works – we’re building a new warehouse and
distribution center in Honolulu.
This facility is different than our other owned freight-handling
facilities located in Southern
California, Maui, Kona,
and Guam because the ground was contaminated with oil and gas
byproduct waste.
We bought four acres of land that has lain barren for over 20 years while being
remediated. It was an eyesore to those working in the area. The property was
not contributing positively to Hawaii or the community. We are now furthering
the remediation process to the point the land can be useful and productive. We
will be turning the four acres into a state-of-the-art public warehouse and
distribution center. The building will be located within 10 minutes of the port
in an area off Nimitz Highway.
DHX-Dependable
Hawaiian Express is proud of what we are going to be contributing to Oahu's economy and future. Not only does
the property itself become productive, but with 4,000 pallet positions for
storage, we’ll help ease the current shortage of public warehousing in the
industrial part of town close to the port. A land lot with thousands of plastic
pipes jutting in and out of the ground will be replaced by a new, clean
facility providing job opportunities during construction and thereafter. Once
open it will allow us to move out of a building that is 70+ years old and very
inefficient into something new.
Help us celebrate this for the community and for the businesses needing
our offerings. A complete win-win!
View our progress on our Facebook page.
Beard for
Buck$
About Charity, a Beard and
a New Warehouse: By Brad Dechter
As you may be aware, we’re building a new warehousing facility in
Honolulu. To make a long story short, we received the signed agreement to
purchase the property, vacant land, on a Saturday during the period of the
major league baseball playoff chase in 2017. On that Saturday in September, I
decided, like so many LA Dodger players in their quest to win the World Series,
to not shave again until the prize was won—in this case, our new warehousing
facility opening. I then flew over to Oahu when we had to arrange to finance
both the land purchase and building construction. I told the bankers that I was
growing my beard as a daily reminder of our commitment to getting the project
done, so every morning when I stand in front of the mirror, I am reminded of my
responsibility to complete our project.
During one of my visits to Honolulu, I became aware that the fence on the
perimeter of the property served as a “lean-to” area that homeless folks had
been using to support their temporary shelters. They were camping in certain
areas around the outside of the fence. This visual sparked an idea for me to
believe that something good could come out of this construction project and the
beard!
I went out to our partners and vendors involved with the project and asked for
volunteers to donate to a charity that helps the homeless. Upon reaching out to
volunteers including Massdec (the developer) and DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, Inc. (both owned
by us), six additional companies or individuals agreed to donate $250 an inch
to charities assisting the homeless. That's $2,000 an inch. We then had two
other companies join us, bringing the number of companies to ten as of this
post, or $2,500 an inch. My beard is now four to five inches long, growing
slowly, meaning we’ve already earmarked $10,000 for charity. The facility has
another 10 months before completion, during which I hope the beard will grow an
additional 5-7 inches (may I add much to my wife’s dismay– she really hates
it)! But it’s for a great cause.
I would like to thank the following participants:
- American Savings Bank
(Financier) and Dan Oshima, its Vice President
- Central Pacific Bank
(Financier)
- Massdec LLC (Developer)
- DHX-Dependable Hawaiian
Express, Inc. (Lessee)
- Honolulu Builders
(Contractor)
- Anonymous Officer at
Massdec’s Environmental Consultant
- Anonymous Officer at our
Ocean Carrier to Hawaii
- Cades Schutte and the Cades
Foundation
- MC Architects (Architect)
- Honolulu Freight Service-
Mike Beidleman
Again, these participants have already raised $10,000 to be donated to
charities!
Our campaign was developed
to raise money for "every inch" of hair grown by President Brad
Dechter of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express during a timeframe of one year,
ending on April 1st, 2019 (Grand Opening of our new warehouse in Honolulu, HI).
The progress of the Beard for Buck$ campaign will be documented monthly here on
our company Facebook page. Our primary goal is to help end homelessness in
Honolulu through the provision of charitable donations from a group of DHX-Dependable
Hawaiian Express partners and friends. It initially started as a campaign
within our partners, but others have now joined in, and we have now opened the
campaign to everyone who would like to help contribute to our cause! Your
contribution supports diverse organizations involved, but specifically for the
homeless outreach programs in Honolulu. Your involvement and donations can be
in any increments including $1 or more per inch and/or specific pledges of your
choice (one-time donation, etc.) 100% of the donations will go to Kahauiki
Village http://www.kahauiki.org/ and The Salvation Army-Hawaiian and Pacific
Islands https://fundraise.salvationarmyhawaii.org/…/beard-f…/c184542. We hope that you join us in this fun, yet
charitable cause. #beardforbucks #honolulu #hawaii
We will be posting monthly updates, with beard pictures to our Facebook page (Beard for Buck$
Photo Album). Just so you know, for a single donation of $10,000, I, the
president of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, and DGX (Dependable Global
Express) would be willing to dye the beard “purple,” the official color of
Dependable Supply Chain Services for a month!
For $25,000 and I’ll dye the beard and my hair, too! It’s all for a great
cause, folks!
To view current
progress and updates, please visit the
DHX Blog
Should you have
additional questions or scheduling concerns, please contact your local office
or contact our DGX at 888-488-4888 or at 310-669-8888. For DHX Customer Service Center call us at 800-488-4888,
Ext. 2020.
For Hawaii news updates see News Updates at www.dhx.com.
Thank
you for your business - we appreciate it!