NetFreight already incorporates frontier import and export Customs for the UK, which is fully integrated with its freight management, warehousing and CRM functions.

In 2010, we embarked on the first phase of providing a link from NetFreight to US Customs with the interface to the Automated Export System (AES), which is now being used by all of our US customers instead of having to ‘double-key’ the data directly into AES via the web.

In 2012, we expect to link NetFreight to the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) for US imports, thereby providing the same frontier Customs capability in the US as we do in the UK.

Although not a US Customs requirement, the Import Control System (ICS) introduced in January 2011 throughout the EU will affect US freight companies who will have to pay the airlines and shipping lines to transmit their security data. However, Netfreight now incorporates a facility  to transmit the Master Air-Waybill (MAWB) and House Air-Waybill (HAWB) data as FWB and FHL messages respectively, for which the airlines will charge far less than a paper MAWB and HAWB, which saves on your out goings and increases your profit margins.