James
Director
Co-founder of Avocet Clearance. With expertise in tariff classification and duty suspensions, James plays a key role in optimising trade processes and ensuring compliance for our import clients.
Holly
Director
Co-founder of Avocet Clearance. With a background in forwarding and clearance, Holly works closely with the operations team, ensuring our services meet our clients requirements.
Kat
Compliance Manager
Kat has been with Avocet since the very beginning. She focuses on internal auditing, training and compliance within the team.
Ben
Operations Supervisor
Ben overseas all import, export and transit operational activity undertaken by Avocet Clearance in both the Manchester and Belfast offices
Jacob
Team Leader
As team leader, Jacob provides hands on support to the team, tackling the more difficult tasks himself at times.
Jaime
Customs Broker
Jaime helps us operate 24/7 by working a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. He also supports the company in marketing activities.
Isaac
Customs Broker
Isaac is the companies early bird, opening the office during the week from 7am each day and tackling any urgent clearances and releases.
Zuzana
Customs Broker
Zuzana helps us operate 24/7 by working a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. She also supports Kat with compliance auditing and reporting.
Veronika
Customs Broker
Veronika works our export and transit desk during the week, ensuring all outbound movements are handled consistently and effectively.
Tammy
Customs Broker
Tammy works some of our weekly nightshifts, providing support in all areas to our customers who need assistance during this time. Tammy also heads up our excise due diligence function.
Amy
Customs Broker
Amy is based at our Belfast office and handles a number of Northern Ireland specific accounts, in addition to supporting the team with UK flows. Amy specialises in TSS and the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Ashley
Customs Broker
Ashley helps us operate 24/7 by working a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. He also tackles some of our more complex customs declarations including excise imports and onward EMCS movements.
Cory
Customs Broker
Cory helps us operate 24/7 by working a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. He also tackles some of our more complex customs declarations including inward processing, outward processing and customs warehousing imports, diversions and removals.
Murad
Customs Broker
Murad works some of our weekly nightshifts, providing support in all areas to our customers who need assistance during this time.
Tenzin
Customs Broker
Managing key clients, booking transport, completing IPAFFS and safety & security declarations. Often the first point of contact for new shipments and declarations.
Eleanor
Customs Administrator
Eleanor works on our simplified import desk responding to clearance requests, raising frontier import declarations (SFDs) and common health entry documents (CHEDs).
Tren
Customs Administrator
Tren works on our simplified import desk responding to clearance requests, raising frontier import declarations (SFDs) and Goods Movement References (GMRs). Tren also manages some of our key customer accounts.
Matthew
Customs Administrator
Matt works on our simplified import desk responding to clearance requests, raising frontier import declarations (SFDs) and claiming inventory records at certain ports of arrival (UCNs).
Joao
Customs Administrator
Joao works on our simplified import desk responding to clearance requests, raising frontier import declarations (SFDs) and also export safety and security declarations (ENS) into the EU.
Sue
Business Support Manager
Sue supports the business by managing human resources and overseeing the purchase ledger.
Hannah
Finance Administrator
Hannah manages the sales ledger and credit control, including set up of new clients and credit accounts.
Mike
Management Accountant
Mike works closely with our accountant and is responsible for financial reporting.