Weekly Update 29 March 2021

Welcome to our new weekly update report for the BMSB season. We want to keep you informed of our work and answer your questions. We'll include lodgement queue processing times and volumes.

This week

Sea freight queue

For this week, sea freight lodgement turnaround is estimated at 3 - 6 days.

On Monday 29 March, morning, the total sea freight queue (includes Australian lodgements) stood at 631 lodgements and TET were processing lodgements due back today at 2:17pm.

Last week:  average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 21:30 hrs (previous week 21:17hrs) and for second submissions 4:38 hrs (previous week 5:02 hrs)

Airfreight queue

For the coming week, air freight lodgement turnaround is estimated 3-7 hours

On Monday 29 March, morning, there were 4 airfreight lodgements in the queue for processing and TET were processing those due back at 10am.

 Last week:  average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 4:04 hrs (previous week 3:48 hrs) and for second submissions 3:32 hrs (previous week 2:53 hrs)

Australia queue

On Monday 29 March, morning, there were 120 Australian specific lodgements, the team is processing consignments due back today at 3:30pm

 Last week:

 Average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 4:11 hrs (previous week 3:33 hrs) and for second submissions 3:41 hrs (previous week 2:49 hrs).

Average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 20:02hrs (previous week 19:02 hrs) and for second submissions 3:49 hrs (previous week 4:19 hrs)

Pressure point:

• None noted

Lodgements processed Weekly 22 March – 28 March

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

 Total lodgements processed 5,502

Australian queue

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