Deployment of the Re-cycled Master Air Waybill (MAWB) Solution .

To enable the deployment of the MAWB solution, the ICS will be unavailable for a 12 hour period commencing Saturday 18 June, 1700 hours until Sunday 19 June, 0500 hours AEST.

To facilitate the clearance of cargo before the outage, the ICS screening period for Air Cargo Reports will be reduced to 30 minutes from 1500 hours AEST on Saturday 18 June.

CI&SC staff will remain until midnight on Saturday to assist in the processing of any urgent releases and additional staff will be made available at the CI&SC from 0500 hours on Sunday to handle any queries or issues resulting from the outage and implementation.

If at all possible, Industry is encouraged to report cargo that is due to be reported during the outage period before the outage commences. EDI users who choose to send messages during the outage period and that have resend functionality should consider disabling resends for this outage period to reduce the backlog of messages accumulated during the outage.

After the outage, there will be a catch up period for the ICS to process the backlog of messages. This means that delays in message processing may be experienced for several hours after the ICS becomes available.

To assist you in identifying if your shipment is subject to a re-reported MAWB, a list of re-reported MAWBs from the previous 10 days is available http://www.cargosupport.gov.au/. This list will be refreshed tomorrow (Friday) and again on Sunday morning. If one of these MAWB numbers is part-shipped after the solution is implemented, then clearance may be affected. If you do not receive clearance for cargo associated with one of the listed MAWBs please contact the CI&SC.

For more information regarding the MAWB solution deployment, please see the Australian Customs Cargo Advice (ACCA) 2011/06 http://www.cargosupport.gov.au/notices/acca/acca.asp

For more information regarding the MAWB solution, please see the Release notes here http://www.cargosupport.gov.au/site/documents/Release_10_4_02_External.pdf

Regards

Anne-Marie McGowan
A/g Director | Client Engagement and Cargo Systems Branch
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
www.customs.gov.au