Expertise & Operations
The operational side of the business, described plainly. These are the functions a beverage load passes through between a supplier and a shelf, and they are the ones we run ourselves rather than buy in.
B2B Operations
We sell to businesses rather than to consumers: wholesalers, cash and carry operators, importers, and hospitality groups. Orders are quoted per pallet or per tray, invoiced once, and settled on agreed terms. There is no consumer channel behind it.
Beverage Handling
Drinks are heavy and sold by the pallet, so a load reaches its weight limit long before it runs out of floor space. Cans, glass, PET, shrink wrapped trays, mixed pallets: how a load is built decides what it costs to move, which is why we build it ourselves.
Import & Export
Product moves into the Netherlands and back out of it across ten markets. Two of those ten sit outside the EU customs union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, which is why the documents below matter as much as the freight rate.
Customs & Documentation
Clearance, transit declarations, and the guarantees that sit behind them, handled inside the holding rather than passed to a broker. A load held at a border because a document was wrong costs considerably more than the document ever saved.
Logistics & Incoterms
Freight moves on a dedicated carrier working out of one of our own warehouses, on a schedule built around our shipping calendar. We quote under any of the eleven Incoterms, which in practice means the buyer chooses how much of the journey they want to carry.
Transit Documents, and What They Actually Do
Two documents do most of the work in European road freight, and they are routinely confused with each other. The difference decides whether a load keeps moving.
Covers non-Union goods travelling between two customs offices before duty and import VAT have been paid. The goods move under a guarantee for what would be owed if they never arrived, and the charges fall due at the office of destination. This is the document behind most stock that has landed at Rotterdam or Antwerp and has not yet been cleared.
Covers Union goods that have to cross a non-EU territory and keep their Union status on arrival. A load driven from the Netherlands to Italy through Switzerland is the everyday case. Without it the goods can be treated as non-Union when they re-enter, which turns a routine delivery into a customs problem.
Incoterms, Grouped by Where Risk Passes
The eleven terms are less eleven options than four families. What separates them is the point at which the goods stop being our risk and become yours, and who is named on the customs entry at each end.
- EXW
The buyer collects. Risk passes at our door and the buyer arranges everything after it.
- FCA
- FAS
- FOB
We deliver to the carrier the buyer has nominated. The buyer pays for the main leg and carries the risk on it.
- CFR
- CIF
- CPT
- CIP
We pay for the main leg, but risk still passes to the buyer at the start of it. This is the family most often misread: paying the freight is not the same as carrying the risk.
- DAP
- DPU
- DDP
We carry the risk all the way to the named place. Under DDP we also clear the goods on import and pay the duty, which is the term most buyers want and the one most sellers avoid.
"Every handover is a margin and a delay. We removed the ones we could."