Compliance regulations are always evolving: Stay ahead with CHAMP

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The air cargo compliance landscape is evolving rapidly. This results from tighter global security, expanding digital initiatives, and more complex trade regulations. These changes affect how airlines, forwarders, handlers, and shippers manage cargo in global supply chains. Now, all industry participants must adapt to ensure total compliance. 

The compliance evolution

As more and more countries globally introduce ever stricter protocols and mandate electronic data submissions for all shipments in advance, customs authorities and air cargo players shift from paper-based documentation to fully digital customs clearance. This allows for earlier shipment risk assessment and more efficient cargo management. 

Though these initiatives place significant operational and financial burden on supply chain participants, they are less than the potential costs associated with non-compliance: 

• Heavy fines or confiscation of shipments 
• Loss of certifications 
• Blacklisting or suspension by regulatory bodies 
• Legal liability for shippers, forwarders, or carriers 
• Flight delays, cargo refusal, and disrupted operations

The comprehensive and expanding global regulatory frameworks emerging over the last few years include, but are not limited to:

ICS2 

The EU’s advanced cargo information and security screening system requires all goods moving through the EU customs territory to be declared electronically before arrival or even before loading, allowing threats to be detected long before cargo departs for the EU.

Canada PACT 

PACT is Canada’s Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI) program, aligned with others such as ICS2, that ensures consistency with global standards for air cargo screening and risk management.

UK Pre-DICT 

The Pre-Departure Information for Cargo Targeting (Pre-DICT) program is the United Kingdom's own air cargo security initiative allowing authorities to assess cargo shipments in advance of their arrival in the UK.

UAE filing 

The United Arab Emirates’ PLACI system mandates electronic submission of shipment data before loading at the last foreign location, or before departure to the UAE. It enables risk assessments and aligns the UAE with equivalent international practices.

Postal filing requirements: 

Postal shipments containing goods are also now subject to electronic advance data (EAD) submission to ensure customs checks can take place before cross-border movement. Postal filing is an important step in closing compliance gaps between air cargo and postal networks.

The current challenge

For years, the industry has faced a long-standing challenge; change only happens when compliance demands it. In other words, we tend to react to emerging regulatory changes rather than anticipating and preparing for them in advance. 

But with greater demand for air cargo transparency than ever before, companies are changing their approach to compliance. Data accuracy, digital connectivity, and proactive compliance are now prerequisites for global air cargo. 

For the air cargo industry, the time to adopt comprehensive, easy-to-use, and implement compliance solutions is now.

One platform to streamline your compliance

At CHAMP, we know customers face a significant problem: they want to avoid developing separate customs solutions for every country or jurisdiction. Why? Because creating multiple, fragmented solutions is time-consuming, complex, and error prone. It leaves shipments and supply chains vulnerable to delays and costly fines which affect efficiency and operational reliability. 

Instead, organizations wish to streamline customs declaration processes into a single, highly compatible platform or interface. Solutions like CHAMP’s Traxon Global Customs provide a centralized place for managing compliance across multiple jurisdictions; up to 65+ countries in total. 

CHAMP customers such as Korean Air are currently leveraging our solutions to reduce risk, streamline their customs declaration processes, and seamlessly maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.

Compliance products developed by CHAMP: 

• Traxon Global Customs (TGC): Offers a best-in-class solution to automate and efficiently manage your customs reporting needs, all in a single, intuitive interface. 
• Traxon Global Security (TGS): CHAMP’s innovative application designed to empower carriers and freight forwarders in managing Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI) filings across various global regulations. 
• Traxon Global eCommerce (TGE): CHAMP's eCommerce filing assistant helps report data at House Air Waybill (HAWB) level, in line with emerging international eCommerce regulations. 

We know that air cargo compliance is not just about meeting regulatory deadlines but anticipating change, turning a common hindrance into an efficiency enabler. Strategic innovation partners like CHAMP help the industry shift from reactive change to proactive control with ease. 

Click here to discover how CHAMP can help you seamless comply with changing regulations.