Electronic Processing of Courier Documents to Begin in Chennai Airport after Delhi and Mumbai

New website of Office of the Commissioner of Customs (Airport & Air Cargo), Chennai launched

[Ref: Commissioner of Customs (Airport & Air Cargo) Chennai Press Note dated 17 June 2011]

Mr. S.K.Goel said that electronic processing of courier documents which were hitherto done manually will be introduced shortly in Chennai as the same has already been operationalised in Delhi & Mumbai(.) He said CBEC has recently issued guidelines regarding self-assessment procedure to facilitate compliant trade and that it is a big leap forward in trade facilitation(.)

A new website, www.aircustomschennai.gov.in for the office of the Commissioner of Customs (Airport & Air Cargo), Chennai was launched on 16 June by S. K. Goel, Member, Central Board of Excise & Customs. The website provides information related to passenger clearance, cargo clearance, clearance through courier cell, clearance of foreign post articles, information regarding CHA regulations, list of CHAs, online status of bills of entry, shipping bills, IGM / console manifest, links to many related websites as one-stop source(.)

Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Commissioner (Air) invited suggestions from the members of the trade to make the website much more useful to the public and that the public may email their suggestions to improve the website to chcusair@dataone.in.

[Ref: F.No.S.Misc.16/2010-EDI Air ]