Is the US 100% screening deadline going to affect you?
We're less than two months from the time when all cargo moving on pax aircraft in the US will have to be screened -- and this includes cargo moving into the US from other countries.
Is this impacting any of you? Or have you heard of any significant developments?
Is this impacting any of you? Or have you heard of any significant developments?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Pierson on -
At first it looked like this would have no effect on our shipments of spare parts overseas. But on late Thursday 7/28/10 we were suddenly informed that our same-day AOG shipments would have to be tendered six hours in advance of flight departure, rather than four hours. If this sticks, it will have an impact on our operations.
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Permalink Reply by David Harris on -
Is it something you can adjust to, or is it going to be a p.i.t.a pretty much forever?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Pierson on
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They say it might "return to normal" in a couple of weeks, if the airline finds they can handle the screening requirements without endangering their flight departure times. But in the meantime they are offering a shorter cut-off time, provided you pay for the highest level of service (airfreight charges). I'm a bit suspicious that after a couple of weeks of receiving higher airfreight for the priviledge of submitting cargo under the previous deadline, that they are going to be hesitant to return back to the previous policy and forego that extra income. If that happens, then we have to make some hard decisions: pay more in freight, or re-juggle our staff schedules, etc. to accomodate a very early morning pickup and delivery to the airline. Of course, our freight forwarder may want additional charges for these changes as well, which might offset any savings, so we may end up having to accept the higher cost of doing business, even if we don't like it.
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Permalink Reply by David Harris on
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We're now three days into the new regime -- has anyone other than Richard seen any impact?
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Permalink Reply by Brandon L. Fried on -
After our first week under the 100% screening mandate, the Airforwarders Association (AFA) asked members how things went. Here is what they told us........
IAC's representing 709 operations across the U.S. participated.
Of the 709, 88 are Certified Cargo Screening Facilities (CCSF's) with another 13 having CCSF applications pending with TSA.
On the primary question, "How would you categorize your first weeks experience under the 100% screening mandate?",
67% reported no issues whatsoever. They likened the event to "Y2K".
28% reported only scattered problems but categorized them as minor start-up glitches.
5% reported encountering serious issues.
When asked to advise which airports and which airlines posed the most problems, few were named and there was no discernable pattern. Not surprising given that 95% reported few if any issues.
Next we took the pulse on expectations and asked "How are you feeling about the fall peak and beyond?
55% were quite satisfied that industry had things well in hand and did not anticipate any problems.
39% acknowledged they were a bit worried but cautiously optimistic.
6% have serious reservations about industry's ability to scale up to significantly higher volumes.
Clearly this is result of a lot of hard work, planning, and investment by all of the stakeholders - IAC's, our trucking partners, airlines and TSA. Being realistic, the first week of August is not known for high volumes. That test will come in the fall but members seem optimistic that as processes are refined and more CCSF's come on line that the industry is up to the challenge. AFA will be following this closely with additional surveys in the coming weeks.
Brandon Fried
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Permalink Reply by David Harris on
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Good to hear from you on this Brandon. Your members' experiences seem to bear out our expectations that the transition would go relatively smoothly, with most of the big players well ahead of the game and serious problems limited to a small minority of cases.
I hope you'll keep us up to date on this as volumes ramp up over the next few months. (Assuming volumes do ramp up, that is.)
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Permalink Reply by William Jones on -
there are few issues because there are few inspections
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