Challenge:
A leader in aerospace operates across multiple UK and EU sites, managing a high volume of international shipments involving dual-use goods. Their in-house teams faced increasing pressure to maintain compliance standards while ensuring fast, uninterrupted movement of parts critical to aerospace production.
With 500–700 shipments processed each month, manual customs handling created risks of delays, reporting inconsistencies, and exposure to compliance penalties; particularly for sensitive export-controlled materials.
Solution:
To strengthen speed and compliance, they partnered with C4 Logistics, leveraging our Customs Office expertise and Drop & Book online facility.
This integrated setup centralised all export and import declarations, allowing shipments to be booked and cleared quickly through a single digital portal. C4’s specialist customs team provided proactive oversight, ensuring all documentation for dual-use goods met HMRC and EU export control regulations.
Result:
With C4’s support, a leader in aerospace now maintains a 97%+ compliance success rate, with any minor discrepancies traced to client-side data issues; not procedural errors.
Shipments are processed faster, documentation accuracy has improved, and audit readiness is consistently achieved across all operational sites.
By combining automation with expert oversight, C4 Logistics helps a leader in aerospace to maintain control, compliance, and continuity , keeping production on schedule and global trade flowing smoothly.