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Weekly update 8 April 2026
Kia ora koutou,
Welcome to our weekly update report. We want to keep you informed of our work and answer your questions. We'll include lodgement queue processing times and volumes.
MPI Risk goods not captured by tariffs
If you have a consignment of items with potential biosecurity risk that are not stopped for MPI assessment due to a tariff not being targeted, please bring these to our attention using a Manual Biosecurity Referral (MBR) in your TSW entry.
This will help us to capture items such as heat packs containing wheat, where there is no distinct tariff code and targeting a multitude of tariff codes would result in a large number of by-catch items being stopped for MPI.
Sea freight queue
For this week, sea freight lodgement turnaround is estimated at 3 days.
On Wednesday 8th April, midday, the total sea freight queue (includes Australian lodgements) stood at 794 lodgements and TET were processing lodgements due Wednesday at 2:13pm.
Last week: average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 17:36 hrs (previous week 17:57hrs) and for second submissions 3:16 hrs (previous week 4:13hrs).
Airfreight queue
For the coming week, air freight lodgement turnaround is estimated 3 hours
On Wednesday 8th April, midday, there were 37 airfreight lodgements in the queue and TET were processing lodgements due Wednesday at 2:03pm
Last week: average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 1:51 hrs (previous week 2:17 hrs) and for second submissions 1:51 hrs (previous week 2:16 hrs).
Australia queue
On Wednesday 8th April, midday, there were 160 Australian specific lodgements, the team is processing consignments due back Wednesday at 2:20pm.
Last week:
Average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 1:51hrs (previous week 2:13hrs) and for second submissions 1:39 hrs (previous week 1:48hrs).
Average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 14:59hrs (previous week 15:41hrs) and for second submissions was 2:45hrs (previous week 2:50hrs).
Pressure point: None noted
Lodgements processed Weekly 30th March – 5th April
All timings are based on business hours from 7am to 5pm.
Total lodgements processed = 3673 (previous week 4360)
Air cargo 1st lodgements
3-hour target
1421
(previous week 1690)
Air cargo 2nd submission
2-hour target
171
(previous week 197)
Total
1,591
Sea cargo 1st lodgements
21-hour target
1,803
(previous week 2,107)
Sea cargo 2nd submission
4-hour target
278
(previous week 366)
Total
2,081
Australian queue
Sea cargo 1st lodgements
21-hour target
426
(previous week 480)
Sea cargo 2nd submission
4-hour target
70
(previous week 79)
Air cargo 1st lodgements
3-hour target
396
(previous week 425)
Air cargo 2nd submission
2-hour target
41
(previous week 38)
