The document discusses exporting flowers from Colombia to Japan. It notes that Colombian flowers are mainly produced for export by small and medium farms concentrated in few regions. It also provides background on Japan's large economy and status as a high-tech powerhouse. The document outlines the documentation and licenses required to export flowers to Japan from Colombia, including commercial invoices, import licenses, certificates of origin. It discusses maritime and air access options, with air transport being faster to deliver fresh flowers. Key ports and transit times from Colombia to ports in Japan are listed.

1. How to export flowers to
Japan?
Luisa Carolina Parra Belmonte

2. Characteristics of the colombian
flowers
Colombian flowers
are mainly
produced for
export, are
cultivated
principally by small
and medium size
farms, and
production is
concentrated in few
regions.

3. Characteristics of Japan
Japan is the world’s
third largest
economy in the
world - bigger than
the UK and Germany
combined. In 2014 it
made up 6% of world
Gross Domestic
Product (GDP).
Japan remains the
high-tech
powerhouse
economy of Asia.

4. Requeried Documentation

5. Commercial Invoice duly signed
by the carrier, containing:
exact description of
the goods, number
of packages, rates of
customs
nomenclature
according to
Brussels, signals,
codes,
quantity, value,
place, date,
recipient, name of
the consignee,
conditions for
payment and

6. Import license, when the
merchandise is imported under:
 Or System-AA: Approval
of a government-owned
bank of change or
 System-AIQ: Approval of
the Ministry of Industry
and International Trade
or
 System-IQ: Import
License assigned by the
Ministry of
 International Trade and
Industry and the
authorization of the Bank
of change
 with the import license

7. A packing list

8. Certificate of Origin and
Certificate of Dispatched

9. Certified by the
local Chamber of
Commerce.

10. Maritime Access

11. Frequencies and transit time
from the Colombian ports
SOURCE DESTINATION DAYS OF DIRECT TRANSIT
DAYS TRANSIT
CONNECTION WITH FREQUENCY
BARRANQUILLA
KOBE 37-40 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
NAGOYA 40-42 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
OSAKA 40-46 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
YOKOHAMA 26-43 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
BUENAVENTURA
KOBE 28-36 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
NAGOYA 44-57 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
OSAKA 25-45 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
YOKOHAMA 26-28 27-37 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
BUENAVENTURA
KOBE 35-42 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
NAGOYA 40-47 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
OSAKA 25-43 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
YOKOHAMA 40 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
CARTAGENA
KOBE 42 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
NAGOYA 50 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
OSAKA 55 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
YOKOHAMA 35 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
SANTA MARTA
KOBE 42 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
NAGOYA 40-45 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
OSAKA 35-40 WEEKLY FREQUENCY
YOKOHAMA 25-45 WEEKLY FREQUENCY

12. Shipping Lines and forwarders
with services offering to Japan

13. AIR ACCESS

14. Air Services
There are currently no
direct air services from
Colombia toward this
destination, however the
mobilization of the
charging is done via
services with
connections in various
European cities such as
Frankfurt, Paris,
London,Amsterdam and
Luxembourg, as well as
in the United States,
Canada and Taipei from
where the load is send
to Japan, in passenger
and freight services.

15. Connections of airlines providing
service to Japan

16. How to export flowers to
Japan?
The Colombian
flowers are
exported to Japan
by means of air
access, because
the air access is
faster and the
flowers arrive fresh
to your destination
in the airports of
Japan

17. Bibliography
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 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/expo
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