Wrapped against the tropics
Multi layer wrap with a moisture barrier, sealed heads and edge protection. Every roll gets the same wrap, regardless of grade or transit length.
Getting it to your plant
Export & logistics
We are built for export. Everything from the wrap on the roll to the paperwork in the file is designed for the ocean leg out of the valley.
Route
The valley to Buenaventura to your port.
Everything we sell is made in the Valle del Cauca, at our own mill near Cali and at qualified partner mills across the same valley. Buenaventura, Colombia's main Pacific container port, is roughly 125 km west over the Cordillera Occidental. From any point in the program that is a same day inland haul, so paper reaches the port without an overnight stop.
From Buenaventura there are established container services to the US West Coast, to the US Gulf and East Coast via the Panama Canal, and to Northern Europe. Where a customer's routing favors the Caribbean side, we can arrange dispatch through Cartagena or Barranquilla instead.
Transit times vary by carrier, service and season. We quote the schedule current at the time of offer.
| Loading port | Buenaventura, Colombia (Pacific) |
|---|---|
| Alternate ports | Cartagena or Barranquilla on request |
| Inland haul | About 125 km, valley to port |
| Incoterms | FAS, CIF (Incoterms 2020) |
| Cargo insurance | ICC (C) with War and Strikes at 110% of invoice, on CIF terms |
| Container types | 40' HC standard, 20' for heavy grades |
| Currencies | USD, EUR |
| Primary markets | North America, European Union |
Packing
Rolls arrive dry, round and uncrushed.
Most quality claims on imported paper are handling problems rather than paper problems. Our packing standard assumes a long ocean leg, a humid port and at least two transfers before the roll reaches your unwind stand. It is one standard, applied to every roll we sell, whichever machine ran it.
Stowed to survive the leg
Rolls loaded eye to sky or eye to side depending on your unloading equipment, chocked and airbag braced. We photograph every loaded container before the doors close and send the set with the shipping documents.
Labeled for your warehouse
Each roll carries lot, grade, basis weight, width, diameter, gross and net weight. Barcode or customer specific label formats accommodated on contract volumes.
Check moisture when the rolls reach you. It is the most useful thing you can add to an incoming inspection. Paper that shipped inside specification can arrive at twelve percent, and it will then fail a tensile test for reasons that have nothing to do with how it was made. Our lot certificate records the moisture at dispatch. If your reading is well off ours, something happened in the container, and that is much easier to sort out at the time than six weeks later.
Paperwork
Documentation that clears first time.
- Commercial invoice and packing list, with roll level detail
- Bill of lading, per your consignee and notify instructions
- Certificate of origin, issued by the Colombian chamber of commerce
- Valle Kraft lot test certificate for the shipped lot
- Insurance certificate on CIF shipments, Institute Cargo Clauses (C)
- Fiber content declaration for the shipped grade
- Phytosanitary or fumigation certificates where the dunnage requires it
- Buyer specific forms. Tell us early and we will build them into the file
Trade agreement treatment
Colombia has free trade agreements in force with both the United States (the US Colombia TPA) and the European Union. Qualifying goods of Colombian origin can receive preferential duty treatment under those agreements, and we issue origin documentation accordingly.
Tariff classification and preference eligibility depend on the specific HS code, the importing country's rules and the origin criteria applied. Confirm treatment with your customs broker before contracting. We will supply whatever origin evidence your broker needs.
For your compliance team
Origin evidence is available under NDA on request:
- Named mills and their capacity. Machine width, speed, operating days and annual nameplate tonnage, set against our actual shipped volume.
- Mill production records tying reel numbers to specific production dates and machines.
- Recovered paper purchase invoices from Colombian suppliers, showing the fiber input behind the output.
- Energy and payroll records consistent with the production claimed.
- Site access to any mill in the program, on reasonable notice.
Commercial terms
How we structure supply.
Contract volume
Monthly or quarterly allocation against a fixed deckle plan. This is the arrangement we prefer and the one we price best, because it lets us plan deckle across the program and hold capacity for you when the order book tightens.
Spot and trial orders
Single container trial shipments are welcome and expected. Nobody should commit annual volume to paper they have not run on their own line. Trial pricing reflects the run size.
Payment
Irrevocable letter of credit at sight against a confirming bank, or telegraphic transfer terms for established accounts. Terms are agreed per contract and stated on the offer, with no surprises at shipment.
Claims
Notify us within the agreed window with roll lot numbers and photographs. We hold retained samples against every lot, so a claim can be tested against what actually shipped. Your claim is with Valle Kraft, and it stops with us.
Give us a destination port and a tonnage.
We will come back with a landed cost for that port.