File your first CSN, step by step

In this film

• Start from CSN filing → Import filing — CSN Entry (SCE): one screen per document you hold.
• The master bill of lading: its number and date, the shipping line as its PAN.
• Finding the ship: type it as the bill writes it, pick the hull, and take the voyage from customs' own list of calls at your port — the VCN is filled in for you.
• The route, typed once for every house bill, and the containers with their check digits verified as you type.
• The house bill: shipper, consignee in India, notify party, the cargo line, and which of the master's containers it is in.
• Review: the whole filing checked at once, the voyage checked again, and each box's master against its house bills.
• The full form, the scmtr DSC Signer (installed once), and Sign & upload.

Chapters

1. 0:00Filing your first CSN: Import filing (SCE)
2. 0:25A new filing: the master bill of lading
3. 0:49Finding the ship and its voyage
4. 1:32The route and the containers
5. 2:12The house bill
6. 3:23The goods and the container
7. 4:02Review
8. 4:21The full form, the Signer, Sign & upload

Read it instead

The SCMTR reference pages this film walks through — free to read, no sign-in.

• How to file a CSNWho files a Cargo Summary Notification, the filing flow end to end, and what changes with each reporting event.
• Finding the ship you are filing forA bill of lading names a ship; customs identifies it by number. How to find the right hull from a name, an IMO number or a VCN.
• Signing your filing with your DSCCustoms accepts nothing unsigned. How Sign & upload signs a filing with your DSC token, and the ICEGATE portal route if you cannot install it.