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JAN 09, 2004 (newstodate): Airfreight customers respond positively and constructively to demands on tightened security, according to a leading Danish freight forwarding company.
-Facing up to the implemententation by March 5 of the US secutiry demands on air cargo including electronically conveyed lists with House and Master AWB data on all incoming cargo flights, we have sent out full information to our customers and the over-all response is clearly positive, says Henrik Nielsen, DFDS Transport managing director.
-We also do not expect any problems in meeting the new security demands that correspond to what has already been implemented within the seafreight business, he says.
-Our IT systems will easily handle the new situation, and as for the "sensitivity" of the shipments data required by US authorities, these are actually already known to the airlines that today get them by fax from the forwarders, so there isn't really anything unique to the new situation, he says.
From the end of the grace period, March 5, US authorities require airlines operating into a US destination to convey electronically a list with the shipment details not later than four hours before touch-down.
Failure to do so will result in heavy fines, including refusal to allow the aircraft to be unloaded, or even confiscations.
-Facing up to the implemententation by March 5 of the US secutiry demands on air cargo including electronically conveyed lists with House and Master AWB data on all incoming cargo flights, we have sent out full information to our customers and the over-all response is clearly positive, says Henrik Nielsen, DFDS Transport managing director.
-We also do not expect any problems in meeting the new security demands that correspond to what has already been implemented within the seafreight business, he says.
-Our IT systems will easily handle the new situation, and as for the "sensitivity" of the shipments data required by US authorities, these are actually already known to the airlines that today get them by fax from the forwarders, so there isn't really anything unique to the new situation, he says.
From the end of the grace period, March 5, US authorities require airlines operating into a US destination to convey electronically a list with the shipment details not later than four hours before touch-down.
Failure to do so will result in heavy fines, including refusal to allow the aircraft to be unloaded, or even confiscations.