Shipping Trade and Transport News 3rd October 2015

Company News

Hapag Lloyd five new ships

Container shipper Hapag-Lloyd announced it has signed a 12-year $372 million facility agreement with a banking syndicate to finance the construction of five new vessels ordered from a South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai  The five new 10,500 TEU vessels, are due to be delivered  between October 2016 and May 2017. The ships will be used on their South American routes and will expand the reefer capacity with 2,100 reefers plugs for each vessel.  The vessels are 333 mtrs long and 48 mtrs wide. 

Mearsk transfers 12 ships to third party management

The company has transferred the operating of these vessels to E.R Schiffart and Bernhard Schulte for the next five years to improve efficiency for the whole fleet by gaining experience from this operation.  Maersk have several new vessels on order for delivery in the next few years. 

Mearsk will a add to his docking order the port of Laem Chabang (Thailand) starting October 2015 and will eliminate the need for trans-shipment of their cargo.  

Maersk investigates a bid in Mexico

The tender relates to the Port of Veracruz

Port of Rotterdam

Rotterdam's ECT terminal saw its last vessel leave the port on the 1st of October 2015 as the port officially closed. 

Vessels Scrapped September/October 2015

Grampian Haven - standby safety vessel
Wan Voyager - bulk carrier
Gingko - bulk carrier

Vessels beached September/October 2015

Hui Ping - bulk carrier at Alang (Indian state of Gujarat)
Ramsi - Bulk carrier at Chittagong
Lotus Sun - Bulk carrier at Chittagong
Garnet - container ship at Chittagong

Trade News - Customs UCC

Changes under the UCC

The UCC is being introduced across the European Union (EU) on 1 May 2016. There’ll be a number of changes to how goods cross EU borders and some transitional arrangements will operate until 2020.

The main changes from 1 May 2016 are:

• mandatory guarantees for most special procedures and temporary storage (TS) – this only applies to new authorisations
• the ability to make some movements under TS rather than national transit or Electronic Transit System (ETS) – formerly New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)
• the removal of the earlier sales provisions relating to valuation – but there are some transitional arrangements
• all communications between customs authorities and economic operators must be electronic

For details of the full changes please contact us these include CSDR - OSR - SDP - INF - IP - PCC and type D customs warehouse.

The UCC is a revision of the Modernised Customs Code (MCC) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is updating public notices and guidance to reflect this. HMRC expect further EU guidance to be issued soon on topics such as Union Transit and Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) arrangements.

the UCC changes allow HMRC to obtain in advance the information on the shipment for import in the EU, customs authorities are able to analyse the risk before arrival of the goods and schedule the required controls. This information is sent by means of an entry summary declaration (ENS). 
 

The ENS shall be lodged at the first customs office of entry before arrival of goods at the EU customs territory. In order to avoid any interference in risk analysis for security and safety purposes, there are specific time limits to lodge an ENS depending on the mode of transport (see table below).  

In principal the carrier of the goods should lodge the ENS with the required details before arrival of the goods at the first customs border of the Union. However, the importer, consignee or a representative of the carrier (or any other person holding those particulars), is also entitled to lodge the ENS.The ENS can be submitted with one or more datasets. However, such details must mandatorily be stated in the ENS. 

 

SUMMARY

One of the main changes laid down by the UCC is the requirement to provide the six-digit commodity codes of the goods in the ENS instead of the four-digit codes (or a brief cargo description of the goods), as currently prescribed in the Community Customs Code (CCC). 

The UCC, its implementing provisions and delegated provisions will be in force as of 1st May 2016. To be aligned with the UCC requirement concerning the Entry Summary Declaration, any economic operator might want to adapt their ENS declaration systems to be able to provide sufficient details on the CN subheading (6digits) and consider the changed deadlines