Após o desalfandegamento, reencaminharam a remessa para o ponto de recolha.

Yes. Após and depois de can both mean after.

• após is a bit more formal and common in written, administrative, and logistics-style language.
• depois de is more neutral and very common in everyday speech.

So in this kind of delivery/customs context, após o desalfandegamento sounds quite natural and official.

Examples:

• Após o pagamento, enviaremos a fatura.
• Depois de pagar, enviaremos a fatura.

Both work, but the first sounds more formal.

Desalfandegamento is a noun meaning the process of clearing something through customs.

It is related to:

• alfândega = customs
• desalfandegar = to clear through customs
• desalfandegamento = customs clearance

This is the kind of technical noun you often see in shipping, postal tracking, and official notices. It is not usually the first word a learner meets in everyday Portuguese, but it is very useful in parcel-delivery contexts.

Portuguese often leaves out the subject when it is understood from the verb ending. This is very common.

Reencaminharam is 3rd person plural preterite, so it means something like they redirected/forwarded.

In this sentence, the subject is not stated because it is either:

• unknown,
• unimportant, or
• obvious from the context.

In practice, it probably refers to a postal service, courier company, customs staff, or another institution involved in the shipment.

English often requires a subject, but Portuguese can omit it:

• Reencaminharam a remessa...
• literally: They redirected the shipment...

Reencaminharam is the pretérito perfeito simples (simple preterite).

It is used for a completed action in the past:

• first customs clearance happened,
• then the shipment was redirected.

So the sentence presents a finished sequence of events.

The verb comes from reencaminhar:

• eu reencaminhei
• tu reencaminhaste
• ele/ela reencaminhou
• eles/elas reencaminharam

In this sentence, the action is seen as complete and punctual, which is why the preterite fits well.

Not quite.

• encaminhar = to direct, send on, route, refer
• reencaminhar = to send on again, redirect, forward to another destination

The prefix re- adds the idea of doing it again or sending it onward after an earlier step.

In delivery language, reencaminhar is very natural when an item has already been handled somewhere and is then sent to a new location.

Remessa is a more formal/logistics-oriented word.

Very roughly:

• remessa = shipment / consignment
• encomenda = order / parcel
• pacote = package

In tracking or transport language, remessa often refers to the shipment as an item within a transport system, not just as a physical box.

So a remessa sounds especially appropriate in postal, customs, and courier contexts.

Yes, recolha comes from the idea of collecting or picking up, but in this context ponto de recolha means a pickup point.

In Portugal, this is a natural phrase for a place where the customer goes to collect a parcel.

Be careful: English collection point and Portuguese ponto de recolha match well in logistics, but recolha can also mean other kinds of collection depending on context, such as waste collection or data collection.

In parcel-delivery language, though, ponto de recolha is straightforward and idiomatic.

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English.

Here they help refer to specific, identifiable things:

• o desalfandegamento = the customs-clearance process for this item
• a remessa = the shipment being tracked
• o ponto de recolha = the pickup point assigned in this case

In English, some of these articles might be dropped in certain styles, especially in tracking updates, but Portuguese usually keeps them.

Yes. A very natural passive alternative would be:

• Após o desalfandegamento, a remessa foi reencaminhada para o ponto de recolha.

This means the same thing, but shifts the focus:

• Reencaminharam a remessa... = active, unspecified they
• A remessa foi reencaminhada... = passive, focus on the shipment

Portuguese, especially in notices and tracking messages, often uses both styles. The active with an omitted subject is very common.

Yes, it sounds very compatible with European Portuguese, especially because of the official/logistics style and the phrase ponto de recolha.

A Brazilian Portuguese speaker would understand it, but some wording might differ depending on the company or context. For example, in Brazil you might more often see alternatives involving:

• retirada
• ponto de retirada
• encomenda or pedido, depending on the context

So the sentence is perfectly understandable more broadly, but it has a distinctly European Portuguese feel.

Yes, a few:

• após: the final -ós is stressed.
• desalfandegamento: long word, with stress on -men-: de-sal-fan-de-ga-men-to
• reencaminharam: the nh sounds like the ny in canyon
• remessa: double ss gives a clear s sound
• recolha: lh sounds like the lli in million for many learners, though not exactly
• ponto: the on is nasal
• recolha in European Portuguese may sound reduced in unstressed vowels, which can make it harder to catch by ear

The two classic consonant combinations to watch are:

• nh
• lh

They are very common in Portuguese and worth practising early.