Container ship alongside a line of port cranes

Before the
berth.

Audit commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, and ten-digit ECOWAS CET tariff codes before your vessel reaches Apapa or Tin Can Island.

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Maritime & air freight clearing 38+ licensed Nigerian clearing desks   /   Apapa · Tin Can · Onne · MMIA
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FIG. 01 — QUAYSIDE CONTAINER STACKS APAPA & TIN CAN ISLAND CORRIDOR

The problem at the port

One shipment.
Two weights.

The packing list says 81,200 kg. The bill of lading says 84,600 kg. And Line 01 is declared under a 10% tariff code instead of the 5% cold-rolled steel subheading. At Apapa or Tin Can Island, that single mismatch triggers a 25% Customs Demand Notice and $250+ per day of terminal demurrage.

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Follow the
paper trail.

Select a pre-arrival consignment and source document below to see how Clearport cross-checks packing list weights, bill of lading manifests, Form M declarations, and ten-digit ECOWAS CET tariff codes in under 45 seconds.

Discrepancy flagged · Needs review

CP-8849 / Sifax Shipping Company Limited (RC 470456)

Cold-rolled non-alloy steel coils (1.2mm)

Form M: MF20260051904 · B/L: MSCU77291038 · Discharge: Tin Can Island TICT · CIF: $212,000

Packing list gross weight 81,200 kg
Bill of lading gross weight 84,600 kg
Declared HS code 7209.25.00.00 · 10%
Reviewed ECOWAS CET code 7209.17.00.00 · 5%

MF20260051904 · Commercial invoice line 01

Cold-rolled steel coils · HS 7209.25.00.00

Declared at 10% duty ($212,000 CIF). Mill certificate MTC-4491 confirms 1.2mm gauge qualifying for 7209.17.00.00 (5% duty).

AI audit finding & duty exposure

3,400 kg to reconcile + 5% CET tariff reduction

Bill of lading gross weight (84,600 kg) exceeds the commercial invoice packing list (81,200 kg). In addition, Mill Test Certificate #MTC-4491 confirms 1.2mm thickness, qualifying for 5% duty under ECOWAS CET 7209.17.00.00 instead of 10%.

Line Commercial invoice entry Audit action Status
01 Cold-rolled steel coils, width 1,250mm, 1.2mm Reclassify 7209.25 → 7209.17 (5%) Amend
02 Galvanized slit steel strips in bundles (420mm) 7212.30.00.00 · Mill cert matched Matched
Estimated duty & demurrage exposure $11,100.00 (₦17.1M)
Audit time 41.2 seconds
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Pre-arrival clearance

From file
to filing.

Clearport completes pre-arrival cargo document audits in under 45 seconds so clearing officers can resolve weight, tariff, and permit discrepancies before the vessel berths.

01.

Ingest

Attach source PDFs

Attach the commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, and Form M PDFs to one shipment file on your clearing desk.

02.

Audit

Azure AI & CET check

Azure AI Document Intelligence extracts line entries while Azure OpenAI on AKS cross-checks gross weights, FOB/CIF values, and 5,842 ten-digit ECOWAS CET tariff codes.

03.

Resolve

Export PAAR audit sheet

Review SONCAP or NAFDAC permit findings before berthing, record your decision, and export a PAAR & Cargo Audit Sheet for NICIS II or B’Odogwu filing.

Container ship underway approaching port
Deep-Sea Vessel Approach 72 HRS BEFORE BERTH

Pre-arrival manifest & bill of lading window.

Audit master bills of lading, commercial invoices, and Form M declarations while the vessel is still underway in the Gulf of Guinea.

Shipping containers on port transfer chassis
Quayside Transfer APAPA & TIN CAN

Gross weight & seal reconciliation.

Catch container tare and packing-list weight variances before terminal gate examination.

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Bonded Depot IJORA · ONNE · MMIA

Off-dock & air cargo release.

SONCAP, NAFDAC, and CRIA certificate verification before bonded transfer.

Inside a large bonded cargo warehouse with palletized consignments
Consignment Bay MULTI-LINE INVOICE OCR

Palletized & industrial machinery lines.

Reconciles up to 250 commercial invoice lines against ten-digit ECOWAS CET headings.

In use

Across the
clearing desks.

38+ licensed clearing agencies and maritime logistics operators use Clearport across Apapa, Tin Can Island, Onne, and MMIA Lagos.

GMT Nigeria Limited 42 Burma Road, Apapa & Tin Can Island, Lagos
CAC RC 333700 ↗ Verified corporate record
Apapa & Tin Can Island Industrial machinery & FMCG inputs
99.4% first-pass PAAR accuracy Audits 80+ multi-line commercial invoices weekly
Sifax Shipping Company Limited 54 Warehouse Road, Apapa, Lagos
CAC RC 470456 ↗ Verified corporate record
Tin Can Island & Ijora Container terminal & bonded brokerage
6,800+ TEUs cleared query-free Automated B/L vs. packing list weight verification
Fortune Global Shipping & Logistics Ltd 15 Fatai Irawo Street, Ajao Estate, Lagos
CAC RC 662247 ↗ Verified corporate record
Lagos & Onne Port Marine project cargo & energy logistics
$142M+ CIF project cargo audited ECOWAS CET Chapters 84–89 tariff verification
Red Star Express Plc 70 International Airport Road, MMIA Lagos
CAC RC 200303 ↗ Verified corporate record
MMIA Air Cargo Lagos High-priority air freight & pharma logistics
4.6× faster air waybill release NAFDAC & statutory 0% VAT exemption screening
Inside a large bonded cargo warehouse with palletized consignments

Multi-line commercial invoices

250 lines.
One audit sheet.

Whether you are clearing a single twenty-foot container of cold-rolled steel or a 180-line pharmaceutical and industrial spare-parts consignment, Clearport reconciles every line against the ECOWAS Common External Tariff before filing.

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Pricing

Plans for
the desk.

Monthly pricing in US dollars. Each tier includes cargo document reconciliation, ten-digit ECOWAS CET tariff review, and downloadable PAAR audit sheets.

Individual desk

Broker

50 consignments per month · 1 seat · Ten-digit ECOWAS CET HS-code checks, packing list vs. bill of lading weight reconciliation, and PAAR audit sheets.

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Clearing team

Commercial

250 consignments per month · 5 seats · Multi-page invoice OCR, ECOWAS CET classification, SONCAP/NAFDAC permit checks, and audit-sheet export for B’Odogwu filing.

$449 / month Open a workspace ↗

Multi-desk operations

Enterprise

1,000 consignments per month · 20 seats · B’Odogwu audit-sheet export, Microsoft Entra ID SSO, Azure Key Vault HSM encryption, and dedicated enterprise provisioning.

$1,250 / month Open a workspace ↗

Leadership

The clearing
desk team.

Founded in Apapa and Victoria Island, Lagos, our team combines deep ECOWAS customs brokerage experience with production document AI engineering.

Olumide Adebayo, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clearport

Co-Founder & CEO

Olumide Adebayo

11 years leading maritime trade documentation and customs clearance operations across Apapa and Tin Can Island terminals.

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Zainab Danjuma, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Clearport

Co-Founder & CTO

Zainab Danjuma

Principal Document AI and distributed systems architect. Built OCR and tariff classification pipelines on Azure AI Document Intelligence and AKS.

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Ifeanyi Nwachukwu, Head of Tariff and PAAR Compliance at Clearport

Head of Tariff & PAAR

Ifeanyi Nwachukwu

WCO Harmonized System auditor and CRFFN-licensed compliance specialist overseeing Clearport’s 5,842 ECOWAS CET ten-digit tariff rules, SONCAP, and NAFDAC schedules.

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