Car Information

Buying a used car can be difficult if you don’t know where to start. In this category you will find articles related to everything from how to buy a used car online, how to import from Japan, all about local fees and taxes, and more—all created to make your used car buying experience easier. You’ll also find information on specific cars, in addition to how to stay safe on the road once your car arrives.

5 Tips for Importing Used Cars from Japan to Mozambique

Importing a vehicle from Japan to Mozambique can be quite tricky for many, especially if you are not aware of the regulations and other legal hurdles that go along with this process. Nevertheless, it is not as hard as most people would like to make it out to be. One only needs to study the regulations about importing a vehicle from Japan to Mozambique and they will be good to go.

The most important thing is to find out the basic requirements, such as age restrictions if any, importation costs, and so forth. So, to help you in your goal of importing the perfect Japanese used vehicle, we have compiled 5 tips to help you import a used car to Mozambique.

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Ugandan Ambassador Visit to BE FORWARD Office in Tokyo

The BE FORWARD office in Tokyo welcomed Ugandan Ambassador Betty Grace Akech Okullo and First Secretary Nasanairi Kamudoli on August 21st to discuss BE FORWARD business in Uganda.

BE FORWARD currently ships around 600 – 800 used cars monthly to Uganda and offers two local support centers in Kampala and Malaba. The Ambassador spoke with BE FORWARD President Hironori Yamakawa and the executive team about several concerns that she has, one being the amount of broken down cars that have been abandoned on the roads of Kampala.

BE FORWARD Uganda

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How to Import a Car from Japan to the Caribbean

Before importing a car from Japan to the Caribbean, it is important to ensure that the vehicle is no older than six years since its manufacturing date. This is quite a relief to car exporters, because the previous law was stringent against cars older than six years old. This means that more people in the Caribbean can afford to import cars for their personal use. In this import guide, we set out to find what kind and how much tax you would have to pay if you were to import a used car to let’s say, Trinidad & Tobago, the Bahamas, Barbuda or Antigua.

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Billboards for the Greater Good

For the most part, we might see billboards as a visual nuisance, perhaps a necessary evil, and occasionally something useful, and they’ve been around for well over a century! Advertising professionals pay a lot of money to put their message, product, or service out in front of the thousands of people that pass by these billboards every day, but is that all they’re good for? Aside from advertising, or live billboards that might show current traffic alerts, can a billboard do something good for the community? Here are four billboards we found that actually give something back to the communities which they stand in.

Sustainable Billboards
Source: www.takepart.com

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BE FORWARD Welcomes Tanzania Ambassador to our Tokyo Office

BE FORWARD welcomes Tanzania Ambassador to our Tokyo Office We were very honored to have H.E. Salome T. Sijaona, Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania visit our Tokyo office on April 18.

BE FORWARD has been doing business with Tanzania for ten years now and celebrated this year, the one year anniversary of the opening of our local office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Ambassador who also visited our local Tanzania office for its opening in July 2013 said, “With agreeable trade relations between Japan and Tanzania, BE FORWARD has been of great interest to me, as there is growing potential for deepening Japan – Tanzania relations.” We look forward to working toward that mission!

During the Ambassador’s visit to our Tokyo office, H.E. was introduced to several of our departments and our own staff from Tanzania. H.E. stated that she was pleased with the growth and success of BE FORWARD, saying it is one of the companies Tanzanians can trust doing business with.

Here are a few photos below with H.E. Salome T. Sijaona with BE FORWARD President Hironori Yamakawa, and a several of our staff.

BE FORWARD Tanzania

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JAAI Explained: How Japan Always Exports Quality Cars

How to export quality cars from Japan

If you are importing a used car, you want to be sure that you are buying a car of certified quality. One way to be sure of this is understanding that the car you are buying has undergone and passed a number of quality assurance checks. If there is only one thing the Japanese are renowned for it is their stringent quality standards, which is also reflected in their exhaustive automotive export testing that guarantees a quality car every time.

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BE FORWARD Holds First Student Internship Program

BE FORWARD, be forward

For the first time BE FORWARD held a 5-day student internship program, February 24th – March 7th. We invited five students from India who are currently studying at the Chiba University of Commerce in Japan through a partnership with Sir Padampat Singhania University in Udaipur, India.

During the internship they were able to spend time in our office learning about our car exporting business, with direct job shadowing of our sales and marketing teams. The interns also spent a day in the field at both the Kawasaki and Yokohama ports where we handle all of the logistics of shipping to overseas.

We were happy to have the students here and we hope they could take away some useful skills that will be valuable in their future careers.

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