After you obtain all important export documents and your containers are ready to be sent to the cargo terminals, you need to check whether the terminal is ready to receive your containers or not. If you fail to perform this check or don’t do it correctly and on time, you may expect your containers to get delayed for shipping. In other words, all your efforts, time and money put in export preparation may go into vain if you fail to understand the importance of pre-receival advice (PRA). Find out more about PRA and how to deal with it. What Is PRA? Traditionally, the exporters in Australia would dispatch their containers to the terminals without any prior information. It would lead to a lot of chaos in a number of situations. It was then that a paper-based document called export receival advice (ERA) was introduced that directed the exporters and their agents to inform terminal operators about the arrival of containers for shipment. However, the manual documents consumed a lot of time a...