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Dec 16, 2005 (newstodate): Lithuanian Customs Department has instructed customs officers at Lithuanian airports to accept and handle customs documents for shipments moving by airline road feeder services part of their way in the EU.
This is considered a major victory by airlines, GSAs and handling agents, who have long pushed energetically for relieving this bottleneck to air cargo exports.
-Lately, airport customs officers were creating artificial problems for us by refusing to handle the documents of offline carriers. We, however, found the articles in the EU Customs Code to prove the opposite, says Audrius Lukosevicius, Kales Airline Services Managing Director.
-Now aircargo can be handled, and export procedures finished, in Lithuania. Before we had to truck cargo and customs documents to the last EU airport, but they were not always returned to the shippers.
-It is very important for Lithuanian exporters to get back the customs stamped export declaration to prove to the authorities that the export shipment has actually left the EU, says Mr Lukosevicius.
This is considered a major victory by airlines, GSAs and handling agents, who have long pushed energetically for relieving this bottleneck to air cargo exports.
-Lately, airport customs officers were creating artificial problems for us by refusing to handle the documents of offline carriers. We, however, found the articles in the EU Customs Code to prove the opposite, says Audrius Lukosevicius, Kales Airline Services Managing Director.
-Now aircargo can be handled, and export procedures finished, in Lithuania. Before we had to truck cargo and customs documents to the last EU airport, but they were not always returned to the shippers.
-It is very important for Lithuanian exporters to get back the customs stamped export declaration to prove to the authorities that the export shipment has actually left the EU, says Mr Lukosevicius.