The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) is reminding industry stakeholders of their responsibility to correctly declare the delivery destination in the Integrated Cargo System (ICS) for sea containers entering Australia.
This week they have issued Industry Advice Notice (IAN) 194-2020: Correctly reporting sea containers destined for rural locations. It is addressed to stakeholders in the import and shipping industries including importers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, transport companies, shipping lines, stevedores and any other operators in the sea container supply and logistics chain that are responsible for reporting or managing sea containers arriving into Australia.
DAWE advises that imported sea containers can carry a range of hitchhikers and contaminants which could introduce exotic pests and diseases into our environment. Shipping containers destined for rural areas pose a higher risk than metropolitan locations, due to the likelihood of pests and diseases establishing quickly and the difficulty in detecting and controlling these once established.
All imported containers destined to be unpacked in rural areas are therefore subject to heightened biosecurity measures on arrival, including a mandatory rural tailgate inspection at a metropolitan location in the port of discharge prior to delivery. DAWE uses postcode classifications to manage the risk associated with rural and metropolitan delivery destinations for all containers.Â
Pests and diseases can spread quickly over large distances and DAWE stresses the importance of reporting biosecurity incidents as soon as practicable.
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