Pilot programme launches this month with a Winter 2012 target for adoption
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has unveiled its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) e-Manifest Rail and Sea, also called M1.
The new system will allow users to transmit electronic manifest data to ACE and the agency will begin a multi-phase pilot programme later this month.
Jenny Burke, Field Branch Chief at the CBP’s Office of Public Affairs, said the system woul;d be trialled using a limited audience with the intent of “slowly expanding the number of users until we are satisfied that the system has the functionality and capability to meet our requirements”. Read more here.
