Author: Candida Edwards

CDS Guidance For Shippers: Update 4.6.1 Saturday 14th December 2024

The Customs Declaration Service (CDS) is continuing to evolve, with new guidance provided for shippers handling import and export declarations.

A CDS update is scheduled on 14th December 2024, during which the system will be unavailable from 21:30 to 23:30.

Key updates include requirements to align declaration submissions with specific document codes, reasons, and status codes as outlined in CDS guidelines. Missing or incorrect entries could result in rejections of declarations.

These updates will further align the system with international trade agreements and regulatory adjustments

Preparing for CDS Updates

To ensure smooth processing:

  • Pre-lodge declarations for shipments arriving on or after 16th December 2024, following the shared guidance to prevent rejections.
  • Verify that document codes, reasons, and status codes are completed accurately in alignment with CDS guidelines.

Resources and Guidance

https://www.gov.uk/business-and-industry/customs-declarations-duties-tariffs

For more detailed guidance, you can refer to the official HMRC resources or freight associations like the British International Freight Association (BIFA) or contact our Customs Team for advice customs@ukffcl.com

Future Forwarding expands in to Scotland, UK

We have expanded our network into Scotland with the opening of a new branch, providing services as a Freight Forwarder in Glasgow for all modes of transport and international trade lanes. With excellent connectivity for airfreight, road freight, and sea freight, this is a key location for Future Forwarding’s development plans, bringing additional knowledge and networks to complement the existing UK offices in Leeds and Manchester.

“We are extremely pleased to be opening our new location in Scotland. It is an exciting time as we look to grow our UK operations and reach new customers. With a long and established customer base in the north of England it seemed a natural step for us to open north of the border, where we hope customers will appreciate our quality of service and personal approach” said Richard Lawford, Managing Director UK

</blockquote>The office based at Rutherglen in Glasgow is headed up by Regional Director Jason Sanders, alongside co-directors Scott Gallacher and Kenny Cooney, all bringing extensive knowledge and many years of experience from the Scottish freight forwarding

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 “We are delighted to be joining the Future Forwarding family, and opening an office that will serve Scotland’s companies who trade on an international scale,” said Jason Sanders Regional Director Scotland, “We look to take pride in building solid relationships with customers and suppliers, and providing them support for their supply chain models and businesses through our bespoke and flexible service offerings”

Future Forwarding UK achieves ISO 9001 Quality Management Status

Future Forwarding UK has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification by the British Assessment Bureau

An official stamp on what we do best “Delivering Quality Worldwide” through operational excellence, engagement of people, process approach, continual improvement, relationship management and customer focus.

The journey to achieving ISO 9001 status started 6 months ago and required a full review of our daily activities and the key principles required, such as customer focus, continuous improvement, and process approach. Identifying areas for improvement, documenting the QMS (quality management system) processes, procedures, and policies, and ensuring that they are followed throughout the organization.

3PL customer participating in GMA “flash sale”, promoting small businesses

A newly established 3PL client participated in a Good Morning America flash sale.

The show focuses on promoting small businesses, new products, and up-and-coming designers producing a high volume of sales.

Participation requires stand-alone IT integration and a 72-hour shipping window.

In the past, our client used a warehouse referred by show organizers to process a high volume of orders.

Unfortunately, there were numerous challenges with some orders e.g.: wrong products sent, incorrect addressing, and unprocessed orders.  These challenges resulted in customer service issues jamming our client’s communications systems and led to complaints from show organizers.

Fortunately, our client had moved into a Future Forwarding facility two months earlier, notified us of the pending sale, and introduced us to the show’s IT consultant three and a half weeks before the show.

As the show date got closer, our in-house IT team configured the flash sale e-com site into our WMS for order fulfillment, shipping, and customer confirmation messaging.

All systems passed testing and were set to “go-live.”

In IT testing, the IT consultant forwarded standard orders which were received and processed without fail.

When the actual sale opened on a Saturday morning, some orders were made via electronic payment methods, populating a data field that was previously identified as “blank.”  The appearance of this data caused batched orders to fail.

Future Forwarding’s IT team was notified of the problem.  They gained remote access to the system, identified, and resolved the issue with less than an hour of downtime in the warehouse.

The IT team also discovered that the client’s “from” e-mail was restricted to 2500 outbound messages per day, so they replaced it with an address on the Future Forwarding domain to provide timely shipping and tracking information to consumers.

Order fulfillment and accuracy rate was and astounding 99.9001%!

Show hosts immediately asked our client to return for future participation.

Future Forwarding conducted a post-sale debrief with our client and agreed to future sale activities and sales activities with other third-party promoters.

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