Storage is not dead time. Used properly, a bonded facility close to your buyers turns a lumpy import programme into a steady, duty-efficient supply line — and stops your cargo racking up quay charges while you wait for an order to land.
Free days after arrival
5
Charging basis
Per pallet, per week
Climate monitoring
Continuous
Cover in store
Included
Goods held under bond have not formally entered the market, so duty and import VAT are not due until release. For a seasonal importer that is a serious cash-flow difference: you pay as stock leaves rather than the day a container lands. If the goods are later re-exported, they may never attract that duty at all.
Temperature and humidity are monitored continuously, cycle counts run to a schedule and the readings sit against your inventory record. Cover extends to goods in store, not just goods in transit, so there is no awkward gap between the two policies at exactly the moment cargo sits still the longest.
Release the quantities your buyers actually order, packed to your specification, with the outbound leg booked on the same reference. Staging stock near the market removes days from every order and takes demurrage — the charge nobody budgets for — out of the equation completely.
From the people who do it
Five of the team who run this part of CargoVault, on the work itself and on how far the company has come. Let it drift, or drag it yourself.
Emma Larsen
Warehouse manager, Malmö
“We began with one bonded unit and a forklift with a temper. The building we run now counts itself, and the customers who started with us are still here.”
Rafael Costa
Inventory controller, Porto
“Cycle counts used to be a yearly argument. Now they are a Tuesday. Accurate stock is the quietest kind of customer service there is.”
Julia Weber
Bond compliance, Hamburg
“Customs walk in unannounced and we open the records without any nerves. Getting to that point took years of doing the boring thing properly.”
Tim Brouwer
Pick and pack lead, Eindhoven
“We pack to each customer's spec, not ours. It is slower on paper and it is why our returns rate is a rounding error.”
Sanna Mäkinen
Cold store technician, Turku
“My sensors talk to the customer's record directly now. If a chiller drifts half a degree, we both know before anything is at risk.”
Emma Larsen
Warehouse manager, Malmö
“We began with one bonded unit and a forklift with a temper. The building we run now counts itself, and the customers who started with us are still here.”
Rafael Costa
Inventory controller, Porto
“Cycle counts used to be a yearly argument. Now they are a Tuesday. Accurate stock is the quietest kind of customer service there is.”
Julia Weber
Bond compliance, Hamburg
“Customs walk in unannounced and we open the records without any nerves. Getting to that point took years of doing the boring thing properly.”
Tim Brouwer
Pick and pack lead, Eindhoven
“We pack to each customer's spec, not ours. It is slower on paper and it is why our returns rate is a rounding error.”
Sanna Mäkinen
Cold store technician, Turku
“My sensors talk to the customer's record directly now. If a chiller drifts half a degree, we both know before anything is at risk.”
