Pete used his 20 years’ experience of working on high value letters of credit to check and advise and after working with the banks involved, a workable version of the l/c was drafted that made all parties very happy which triggered the shipment moving forward.
Situations can change rapidly and when the breakbulk vessel arrived in Antwerp it had been loaded differently to the agreed stowage plan so Pete worked very closely with the stevedores and the shipping line to put together some alternative loading plans that were then submitted to the shipper over a SKYPE meeting and a new loading plan was agreed upon within a few hours allowing the stevedores to still load the vessel in time to avoid any additional costs at port.
“Long story short, customer was delighted, cargo was loaded and the l/c documents flew through then banking system and customer was paid much sooner than expected”
