Why freight forwarders choose GetCTN
The fastest, most transparent way to clear African customs — backed by real compliance officers.
Validated within a few hours
Standard turnaround measured in hours, not days — so your cargo clears without demurrage.
Officer-reviewed, fully transparent
A senior officer cross-checks every filing against destination customs before it is validated.
Accredited & trusted
WCA Family member #87624 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, trusted by DHL, DB Schenker and Nestlé teams.
Transparent pricing
Government fee plus a fixed service fee — you see the total before you pay, always.
Five languages, real desks
English, French, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish — with regional officers who know the local rules.
What that looks like on an actual file
The cards above are claims. This site also publishes a record of them operating: one Angola ARCCLA application, followed from the first email to the certificate landing in the customer’s inbox.
The reply naming the missing document went out about a minute after the request arrived. A draft invoice followed, with the card charge shown against the certificate cost before any payment was taken. The first draft certificate reached the customer about seven hours in. Start to finish the file took 26 hours and 5 minutes — most of that waiting, not working.
The draft stage is the part worth knowing about: the authority prints the original only after the draft is approved, and on that file the single correction anyone asked for was caught there, before validation rather than after it.
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