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The European Association of Freight forwarders, Clecat has urged the European Commission to grant a non-enforcement period from 1 September, warning of serious blockages at European land borders.
ICS2 Release 3, officially launched in April 2025, extends the requirement to file Entry Summary Declarations (ENS) to goods moving into the EU by road and rail. ENS filings provide Customs authorities with shipment details before arrival, allowing for advance risk assessment and ...
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European forwarders group Clecat has welcomed the European Commission’s Omnibus proposals, saying that they are a significant step towards regulatory simplification and reduced administrative burden for many sectors, including the European freight and customs sector. It says that the initiative to streamline compliance obligations across key EU legislative frameworks marks ...
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European forwarders’ group CLECAT says it welcomes International Transport Forum’s call for more regulatory attention on the door-to-door container market.
The ITF has published an independent report on the performance of maritime container supply chains, bringing together data it has collected over the last couple of years on the ocean carriers’ ...
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The CLECAT European forwarders’ organisation has called for an urgent enquiry into the container shipping sector to remove “unfair and discriminatory rules”, warning that smaller freight forwarders could be driven out of business..
In a letter to a letter to competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, the Brussels-based group says that European businesses ...
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European forwarders’ organisation Clecat and a number of other shipping and transport organisations called on EU Member States and the European Commission to ensure that transport receives adequate consideration after the European Parliament endorsed a Recovery and Resilience plan with a budget of €672.5 billion on 9 February. They said ...
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European forwarders’ organisation CLECAT has called for a more transparent process in determining of detention and demurrage charges in container shipping. In a paper published in early April, it sets out a number of issues freight forwarders have encountered recently.
Director general Nicolette van der Jagt, said: “Over the last couple ...
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Freight industry stakeholders including the Clecat forwarders’ organisation, the Global Shippers Forum and the European Shippers’ Council meeting at a roundtable in Paris hosted by the OECD’s International Transport Forum on 19 February called for the shipping line consortia block exemption to be repealed.
They said that market developments over the ...
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The Clecat forwarders organisation along with the European Shippers’ Council have joined forces with other shipping groups to welcome the European Maritime Single Window Environment Regulation, which was adopted by the European Transport and Tourism Committee in January. However, Clecat cautions against the creation of an EU Level Access Point ...
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European forwarders’ representative group Clecat says it is disappointed at the European Council’s recent compromise agreement on posting of workers.
It says that the agreement, if implement, would in “no way respond to the need for simple, uniform, clear and easily enforceable rules which would facilitate transport operations, protect the ...
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UK plans for a Facilitated Customs Arrangement (FCA) could take up to a decade to put into practice and are not a realistic solution to the problems posed by Brexit, says forwarder’s group Clecat in a new position paper published on 16 October.
The group is urging Brexit negotiators to prevent ...
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