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Weekly update 28 July 2025

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.

 

Sea freight queue

For this week, sea freight lodgement turnaround is estimated at 2 days.

On Monday 28 July, the total sea freight queue (includes Australian lodgements) stood at 224 lodgements and TET were processing lodgements due Tuesday at 12:03pm

Last week:  average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 6:22 hrs (previous week 2:10 hrs) and for second submissions 3:16 hrs (previous week 1:49 hrs).

 

Airfreight queue

For the coming week, air freight lodgement turnaround is estimated 2 hours

On Monday 28 July, morning, there was 1 airfreight lodgement in the queue and TET were processing lodgements due back Monday at 10am.

Last week:  average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 0:11 hrs (previous week 0:10hrs) and for second submissions 0:47hrs (previous week 1:32hrs)

 

Australia queue

On Monday 28 July, there were 58 Australian specific lodgements, the team is processing consignments due back Tuesday at 12:15pm. 

Last week: 

Average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 0:11 hrs (previous week 0:11hrs) and for second submissions 0:39hrs (previous week 0:41hrs).

Average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 5:20hrs (previous week 1:51hrs) and for second submissions was 4:11hrs (previous week 1:09hrs)

Pressure point: None noted

 

Lodgements processed Weekly 21 July – 27 July

All timings are based on business hours from 7am to 5pm.

 Total lodgements processed = 5,231 (previous week 4,901)

 

Air cargo 1st lodgements
3-hour target

2,232
(previous week 1,771)

Air cargo 2nd submission
2-hour target

410
(previous week 411)

Total 


2,642

 

Sea cargo 1st lodgements
21-hour target

1,829
(previous week 1,988)

Sea cargo 2nd submission
4-hour target

760
(previous week 731)

Total 
 

2,589

 

Australian queue

 

Sea cargo 1st lodgements
21-hour target

471
(previous week 519)

Sea cargo 2nd submission
4-hour target

192
(previous week 165)

 

Air cargo 1st lodgements
3-hour target

656
(previous week 473)

Air cargo 2nd submission
2-hour target

80
(previous week 80)

 

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