Korea is a fastidious  market, quite strict in terms of freshness, origin, taste, cost and especially focusing on food safety. Therefore, in order to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese products, the quality of transportation services for frozen goods for export to Korea also requires meeting strict standards.

Thanks to the Vietnam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA) signed in 2015, at present, the Korean market has become the main consumer of many products in Vietnam, the most popular is the food industry. frozen agricultural and aquatic products.

SM Global Logistics provides international sea freight solutions for customers. With  many years of operation and development, we provide a variety of services, including effective solutions in transporting frozen goods for export to the Korean market.

1. Seaports in Korea

Korea is a country with many large seaports, and these seaports play an important role in trading and transporting goods back and forth with many countries. We would like to list some seaports to which Vietnamese goods will be delivered:

Port of Incheon

Port of Busan

Port of Ulsan

Gwangyang Port

2. Frozen products exported to Korea

SMG’s strength is professional logistics services related to:

• Seafood: clams, squid, octopus, frozen fish…
• fruits, products that need to be refrigerated
• agricultural products…

3. Customs procedures for exporting

Customs documents exported to Korea normally include:

– Business registration of the exporting enterprise (if exporting for the first time, the next time is not necessary)

– Certificate of tax code (if exporting for the first time)

– Commercial contract

– Packing list

– Container handover record

Shipping mark

For export goods, when ensuring convenient transportation and customs clearance, enterprises should stick shipping marks on the packages.

Certificate of origin

When exporting, the Vietnamese government does not require the exporter to make Made in Vietnam origin for exported goods. However, in many cases, the buyer will ask the exporter to make a certificate of origin Made in Vietnam.

For customers in countries that have signed free trade agreements with Vietnam, it may be necessary to make a certificate of origin according to the form in the corresponding free trade agreement so that the buyer can enjoy special preferential import tax. according to the agreement.

Tax

Taxes that may have to be paid when importing goods for business are usually import tax, excise tax, value added tax (VAT), environmental protection tax, etc.

You first need to determine the HS Code of the goods to be able to look up the exact tax rate. HS Code usually only states the general nature of the goods, not the name of the item. You have the right to choose the HS code with a more favorable tax rate.

 

4. Transportation from Vietnam to Korea

BY SEA

Sea is a low-cost shipping method, but you need to have an amount of goods from 300kg – 500kg or more to be economically efficient. If the item is too small, it is more economical to send it by air.

Shipping time by sea is also quite long. From Vietnam to Korea the main ports take about 6-9 days, for smaller ports it takes 10-15 days.

Cargo shipping by sea will have two forms, which are full container shipping – FCL and general container shipping or retail cargo – LCL.

 BY AIR

• Express delivery service – Express: Carriers that provide shipping services from Vietnam to Korea such as DHL. Fedex, UPS, Viettel post, VNPpost, EMS… They will ship small shipments.

 

• Air cargo : This is a large form of shipping and needs a lot of customs declaration procedures, making goods at the airport … then you can export goods to Korea. Airlines such as Vietnam airlines, Vietjet… all provide this freight service. Shipments over 50kg are suitable for air cargo. In addition, air cargo also transports vegetables and fruits that need to be kept cold or cool, some dangerous goods and live animals.

 

5. Why choose SM Vietnam Global Logistics for delivery cargo

SM Global Logistics has many years experience for exporting shipment

SM Global Logistics is known as one of the leading freight forwarding companies in Vietnam, providing ocean freight, air freight for export- import cargo service, customs clearance and local trucking. We can handle all term, include DDP until final destination. Until now, we have 4 branches in Vietnam and the network of agents all over the world to ensure handling shipment for many routes and types of commodity.

SMG get our own trucking team with a big volume of truck and we are able to arrange special vehicle for all kinds of cargo. Besides, we have contract with many line: ONE, Wanhai, EMC, Yangming, Cosco…so SM Global confidents with the competitive rate, even if arrange a huge of space.

SM Global Logistics always brings the best customer service, ready for 24/7

We are always ready to answer, solve problems that related to shipment in order to provide the best service. With the spirit of international working, we not only work according to the Vietnamese time zone, but also have someone on duty to ensure that we do not miss any of our customers’ needs. We believe, good service will be what keeps customers more than anything.

SM Global’s strength is exporting cargo from Vietnam to Japan

We had experience in handling Japan shipments accounting for around 22% total volume cargo (data 2021), with a big volume, we got competitive ocean freight and other service also.

• The main commodity: garment, seafood, furniture, agricultural goods, iron and steel…
• Volume per month: From 50- 70 containers (20 DC & 40HC)
• Port of loading: Ho Chi Minh port, Hai Phong port, Da Nang Port, Qui Nhon port
• Port of discharge: Incheon, Busan, Ulsan, Gwangyang,…

Here is some shipments that is handled by SMG from Vietnam to Korea:

 

 

 

Export frozen uncooked white clam from Haiphong, Vietnam to Busan, Korea

 

 

 

Export frozen cut baby octupus from Hochiminh, Vietnam to Busan, Korea