Dubai Trade Filing
We hold the portal access and the registrations, so you can import through Dubai without setting up and running your own trade accounts.
You Do Not Need Your Own Account
Clearing goods through Dubai means transacting on the emirate's trade systems, which in turn means registrations, credentials, balances to maintain and people who know how to drive them. For a business that imports a few times a year, all of that is overhead. We hold the access and submit on your behalf, which is a different service from simply preparing your declaration - here the submission is ours as well.
What Goes Through the Portal
Most customs interactions in Dubai are portal transactions rather than counter visits.
Holding your own portal access is right for some businesses and pure overhead for others. It depends on volume more than anything.
If you import weekly, in-house access and staff who use it daily will usually pay for themselves. The knowledge stays current because it is used constantly.
Access used four times a year is expensive to maintain and easy to get wrong, because nobody stays practised at it.
Overseas suppliers cannot hold local access in their own right, so submissions have to be made by a party that can.
Handled End to End
The intention is that you send documents and receive released cargo.
Invoice, packing list and transport document. We build the transaction from them rather than asking you to enter anything.
The declaration is filed and the duty and fees settled through the system, then recharged to you.
The delivery order and release come back, and the cargo moves on our own trucks if you want it to.
Why Cannata
System access is not the hard part. Knowing what the system will reject before you submit it is.
Submissions are routine work here rather than an annual event, which is what keeps rejections rare.
If a submission goes wrong, the goods are with us - not stranded at a terminal while somebody investigates.
Portal submission, clearance, storage and delivery on a single instruction rather than four suppliers.
Rate Request
Give us the route and the cargo and we will come back with a rate, usually within one working day.
Our FAQs
What customers ask about portal filing.