Everything You Need to Know About Sailing Into Australia
Sailing into Australia is not as difficult as it seems. As a fully licensed shipping organisation, we can boldly say that sailing into Australia is one of the easiest things to do.
Import A Boat is fully licensed. We have specialisation in bio-security and custom clearance of your boats into Australia and New Zealand. We have experts who understand the system and the way things work. This is why we are comfortable with working you through what sailing into Australia entails.
Documentation
For something as important as the importation of sea vessel into Australia, you can be sure that there would be the need for documentation. The documents you would need while sailing into Australia are
- Authority letter, which grants us the power to manage customs clearance on your behalf
- Marine Survey document, which is used for the valuation of your document or purchase invoice
- Identification card, which can be any of your passport or driver’s licence
- Document for gas exemption, which grants you the privilege to use exemption of personal import for the gases onboard
- Plastique inspection copy, which you received when your vessel arrived.
Entry Ports
At Import A Boat, we have different entry ports where we can use to handle your vessel clearance. The ports are;
- Western Australia: Port Hedland, Fremantle, Dampier, Bunbury, Broome and Albany
- Victoria: Melbourne, Portland, Geelong & Westernport
- Tasmania: Launceston, Burnie Hobart, & Devonport
- South Australia: Port Lincoln & Port Adelaide
- Queensland: Bundaberg, Mackay, Cairns, Brisbane, Gladstone, Townsville, Thursday Island & Weipa
- Northern Territory: Gove & Darwin
- New South Wales: Sydney, Newcastle, Port Kembla, Coffs Harbour & Lord Howe
As a requirement of the law, you are expected to notify the Australian Customs office not later than ninety-six hours before the arrival of your boat. Failure to do this holds many legal consequences, including criminal conviction, delay, fines or legal expenses. You can call or shoot us a mail about your vessel arrival. You can also directly reach out to the Australian custom to notify it.
Duty-Free Entry
As a developing country, Australia has some agreements on free trade with boats and yachts manufacturing nations, including the United States of America. And if you are importing from the country into Australia, you can benefit from this.
What you have to do to benefit from this is you ensuring that
- Your boat has been manufactured in one FTA country.
- You can supply documentary evidence to prove the first requirement.
- Your boat is shipped directly from its “country of origin” to Australia. If it detours, the detour should not be significant enough (For a long time) to render your claim ineffective.
Necessary Information
In importing your boats into Australia, you will have to supply some information. This information includes
- Craft’s name
- Intended initial Arrival port
- Estimated time of arrival
- Last call ports ( up to four)
- Details of onboard people
- Details of recently encountered diseases or illness
- Declaration and details of animal or firearms on board