CBP Posts User Guide on Creating and Maintaining ACE Ocean Conveyance Records

CBP posted a user guide on how to Create and Maintain Ocean Conveyances, which contains step by step instructions for creating, viewing and maintaining ocean conveyance records in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Effective Sept. 29, ACE will be the only CBP approved Electronic Data Interchange for transmitting required advance ocean and rail manifest information to CBP. After Sept. 29, ocean carriers should be using the ACE Portal functionality to add all new conveyance records and to edit any existing conveyance records that are under their ACE account, CBP said. Those that have not established an ACE Portal Account should apply for an ACE account now, it said. The ACE Portal Application is available on CBP.gov and may be submitted electronically.

With less than 30 days to go until the ACE M1 transition on Sept. 29, 99 percent of ocean carriers and 94 percent of ABI software developers impacted by the required transition to M1 have either completed testing or are in the on-boarding process, CBP said. Those that are part of the one percent of the ocean carriers or the six percent of the ABI software developers who are NOT yet testing ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea must contact their Client Representative immediately for assistance, CBP said. All rail carriers are either in production or currently testing.

CBP user guide on how to Create and Maintain Ocean Conveyances available here.

(See ITT’s Online Archives 12070523 for summary of July reminder of the ACE M1 transition on Sept. 29. As of June 29, 91% of ocean carriers and 70% of ABI software developers impacted by the transition to M1 had either completed or were in the on boarding process.)