Tarek Abu-Gabal Email & Phone Number

Cairo, Egypt

• Oversight and leadership for the freight and clearance teams.
• Facilitate the clearance of goods through customs and ports efficiently, ensuring all procedures are followed correctly to ensure smooth operations.
• Review, and manage all necessary shipments documentation through liaising with suppliers and trademark owners.
• Follow up on clearance processing with custom brokers for all import shipments and resolve any issues or delays that arise during the clearance process.
• Reviewing labels and HS Code for all import consignments and ensuring that they comply with customs requirements.
• Ensure compliance with all national and international laws and regulations related to imports and exports, and stay updated on changes in customs regulations and laws and inform the team and company of these updates.

Egypt

• Supervising and team leader for freight team and for clearance team.
• Mentoring, coaching, and training for our team members.
• Conduct performance appraisal meeting for logistics team.
• Conduct meetings for reporting and tracking meeting the KPIs.
• Participate and lead weekly international conference calls with our suppliers and trademark owners.
• Liaise with brand teams, internal cross functional teams and shipping suppliers to efficiently move shipments to the desired locations in line with brand requirements.

Egypt

• Manage Company Imports and Exports including Freight and Customs Clearance (Garments – Cosmetics – Foodstuff – Shopfitting).
• Responsible for daily communication and follow up of all imports, inter-country transfers and exports with freight forwarders and customs brokers.
• Check costs and quotations from freight forwarders and clearing agents against approved rates.
• Continuously track shipments progress and communicate delays or concerns to affected parties.
• Liaise with our (Product Registration & Compliance) PR&C department to get the MOH pre-import approval and the final MOH approval from Ministry of Health for any cosmetics shipment.
• Responsible for create insurance policy with the service provider for each shipment.

• Managing all relations with all suppliers all over the world.
• Translating all required documents.
• Generating Purchase orders and Follow up with suppliers.
• Managing all import & export process and prepare all required clearance documents.
• Dealing with shipping companies and customs clearance companies.
• Issuing all necessary reports in an accurate & timely Commitment.

• Responsible for provide the company and its vessel with all its requirements and needs (provisions, products, courses, hotel agreements, rental equipment) locally and foreign.
• Prepare Request for quotations (RFQ) to suppliers/ Vendors to obtain prices according to purchase request, sales offer or company requirements.
• Review prices and product specifications from various suppliers/ vendors to determine which would provide the best deal.
• Review RFQs received from supplier prices against the supplier price list (if applicable) to ensure prices and discounts matches the company agreements and order budget.
• Review items specifications (with the requestor) and quantity in received RFQs against the sales orders items to ensure they match.
• Obtain costing and sales confirmation on prepared PO specifications, quantities, prices and shipping conditions before issuing to supplier.

• Handling Logistics & monitoring the shipments (import or export to clear them from the customs) through all airports, sea ports and land.
• Responsible for preparing all related documents for exporting and importing shipments for (All the whole Company).
• Assist the Shipping and Logistics Supervisor in handling customs liquidations.
• Handling customs clearance.
• Maintain good filing practices in logistics.
• Coordinate activities to meet shipping /loading/ unloading requirements to agree to quality and costs.

• Writing all shipping (local + foreign) correspondence.
• Dealing with all our suppliers concerning the shipping procedures.
• Requesting quotations from shipping companies.
• Calculate shipping cost for each order.
• Dealing with shipping agencies.
• Follow up all shipments and ensuring their arrival to the port.

• Deal with Shipping Lines and Airlines.
• Provide quotations to new and existing customers.
• Determine and recommend shipping costs and routing options to the customer for their selection.
• Use preferred list of truckers and vendors to identify customer solutions based on rates and service.
• Arrange pickup and transportation of any export freighthandled.
• Maintain efficient processes associated with sea exportshipments.

Bch. Degree, Logistics And Supply Chain, Excellent With Honor

Total G.P.A: 3.84 out of 4 “Excellent with Honor” – Ranked seventh on my cohort 2013.

Student, American Diploma, Excellent