CBP's September 2006 Modernization Monthly Newsletter Discusses ACE Rail and Sea Manifest Design Approval, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted its September 2006 Modernization Monthly newsletter to its Web site. The following are "highlights" of some of the topics addressed in the newsletter:
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ACE E-Manifest Design for Rail and Sea Approved
CBP states that design work for ACE electronic manifest (e-Manifest) features, which will be for Rail and Sea, was approved in August, making way for the building of these new capabilities to begin.
Bringing ACE to Rail and Sea to Set Stage for a Multi-Modal Manifest
As part of the first set of Cargo Control and Release (CCR) capabilities, "M1" will bring ACE to both rail and sea ports, setting the stage for a multi-modal manifest covering all modes of transportation. (According to various trade sources, M1, which CBP has referred to as "e-Manifest: Rail and Sea," is part of ACE Release 6.)
CBP explains that a multi-modal manifest will allow CBP to eventually phase out and replace the four separate systems CBP uses today. Importers, exporters, and transportation providers will eventually only have to use one system, ACE, to move goods into or through the U.S. using ships, planes, trains, trucks, and pipelines.
Deployment of E-Manifest to Rail and Sea Expected to Begin in Fall 2008
According to CBP, deployment of M1 to rail and seaports is expected to begin in fall 2008. CBP notes that the current sea and rail Automated Manifest System (AMS) will be modernized and the first unified database in CBP history will be created for rail and sea.
Future ACE releases will expand the unified database to include truck and air modes of transportation, which CBP and Participating Government Agency (PGA) field users will be able to access through the ACE Secure Data Portal.
E-Manifest: Truck to Expand to New Hampshire and Vermont in October
CBP states that with ACE installations at New York land border ports near completion, CBP moves next to Vermont and New Hampshire, starting in October. ACE deployment begins in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, and ends at Highgate Springs, Vermont, with a total of 15 ports in the two states.
E-Manifest: Truck to Soon Become Mandatory
According to CSPO Executive Director Louis Samenfink, soon usage of e-Manifests will become mandatory for trucks.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/08/06 news, 06090805, for BP summary of "draft" deployment schedule for ACE e-Manifest: trucks (Release 4).)
CBP September 2006 Modernization Monthly newsletter available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/mod_current.ctt/mod_current.pdf