Container Movements Clerk

Company: Competitive salary Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Salary: MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (UK) Posted: Jul 22, 2025
Permanent, full-time
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Job Description

Container Movements Clerk

Full Time, Permanent

We’re looking for a Container Movements Clerk to join our Logistics department. The successful applicant will ?provide a link between Transport, hauliers and Port Operations departments?, pre-advising empty and full containers to ports and depots.

Skills and experience you’ll bring to us

  • Excellent numeracy, literacy, and IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
  • Proven ability to plan and prioritise work, meet strict deadlines and be flexible in a fast-paced and demanding environment.
  • Ability to address and resolve day to day business issues with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally.
  • A continued positive attitude to new business challenges.
  • Desire to improve current procedures
  • Ability to always demonstrate professionalism.
  • Previous shipping experience preferred.
  • Experience working as part of a team and a willingness to assist colleagues.

How you will help us and what you can expect

  • Pre-advice of export containers in MSC and port community systems.
  • Confirmation of empty restitution locations to customers and hauliers.
  • Pre-advice of empty containers to regional ports and depots.
  • Release of import line haulage containers from UK ports and depots.
  • Cancellation of expired empty pre-advice.
  • Creation of shipper-owned equipment records in MSC Systems for units entering the fleet.
  • Monitoring of reefer booking temperatures ensuring all relevant systems are updated with correct settings.
  • Notification of all identified pre-advice failures to Logistics Analysts team for investigation.
  • Correction of illogical or missing equipment activity records in local and global systems to maintain their accuracy.
  • Analysis of data reports to ensure accuracy and avoid cost.
  • Periodic review of current procedures to identify opportunities for increased efficiency.

So, if you feel that you are the Container Movements Clerk we are looking for then please apply now.