| Title: | Time is Running Out! We Need to Hear from You! |
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| Date: | 2012-08-21 |
| To: | ocean,rail |
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Attention Ocean and Rail Carriers, Software Vendors, and Service Centers:
The deadline to transition to ACE is only 27 business days away. ACS for ocean and rail transactions will be decommissioned on September 29, 2012. That date is firm and any transactions sent in after that date that do not conform to the ACE message formats will fail.
If you have not already transitioned to ACE, please review your business plan to insure that you are ready. Carriers need to check with their software vendor or service center to insure that they will have completed their software testing and will transition to ACE by September 29, 2012.
All software vendors or service centers should immediately contact your Client Representative to provide them with the date that you will transition your carrier clients to ACE.
High level CBP executives will send a letter reiterating the requirement to transition to ACE by September 29, 2012 to the CEOs of all carriers who have not provided their Client Representative with their transition date by August 31, 2012, or whose software vendors or service centers have not provided this date to their Client Representative. These letters will be delivered to the impacted CEOs in early September.
PLEASE DO NOT DELAY!
CBP has dealt with a number of companies who have made the transition to ACE and have found that they needed to make coding changes to their software. Because they have completed their migration in a timely manner, they have had the time to make these changes.
The Client Representatives are currently very busy migrating companies to ACE. Anyone waiting until the last weeks to complete their migration to ACE may find that their Client Representative resources are strained which could impact the timing of your transition.
CBP has previously issued numerous Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) messages on the transition to ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea.
You can access these messages by clicking on the following link: http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/csms.asp?page=1&btype=abi
If you are not currently subscribed to the CSMS, please take a minute to subscribe by going to http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/csms.asp?display_page=1
These messages provide valuable information about system availability and future changes.