Weekly Update 13 April 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 12 April, morning, the total sea freight queue (includes Australian lodgements) stood at 1,104 lodgements and TET were processing lodgements due back today at 7am

Last week:  average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 31:37 hrs (previous week 21:07hrs) and for second submissions 5:42 hrs (previous week 6:07hrs)

Airfreight queue

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

On Monday 12 April, morning, there were 488 airfreight lodgements in the queue for processing and TET were processing those due back at 7am

 Last week:  average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 4:42hrs (previous week 4:38 hrs) and for second submissions 3:52 hrs (previous week 4:00 hrs)

Australia queue

On Monday 12 April, morning, there were 312 Australian specific lodgements, the team is processing consignments due back today at 7am

 Last week:

 Average turnaround of air freight lodgement for first submissions was 5:05 hrs (previous week 5:07 hrs) and for second submissions 3:05 hrs (previous week 3:40 hrs).

Average turnaround of sea freight lodgement for first submissions was 27:14 hrs (previous week 20:42 hrs) and for second submissions 5:12 hrs (previous week 7:46 hrs)

Pressure point:

• None noted

Lodgements processed Weekly 5 April  – 11 April

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

 Total lodgements processed 4,608

Australian queue

Enquiries to Customer Enquiries Centre and Standards Team

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