What we are building next

Three fields the form still asks for are fully determined by ports you have already entered — confirmed against 53 of 53 consignments from real filings, and against the templates of an agent who files daily. When this lands, LC/TI/TC and the port of receipt stop being questions.

The pre-flight check already compares your voyage and bill details against what ICEGATE holds. Container numbers are next: a declared box that disagrees with the carrier's manifest is the single most useful mismatch to catch before customs does.

Key in one house bill per screen today; paste a whole consolidation tomorrow. Upload the spreadsheet your shipping line or CHA already sends you, map the columns once, and get one filing per row — with everything the checker would have caught flagged before anything is filed.

The tracking card already answers what customs and the carrier say. The ship's own position is the third answer — we already receive live AIS positions for the fleet filers use, and the card is where they belong.

Cargo cleared at a container freight station needs its own leg in the itinerary — gateway to CFS — and a missing leg is a rejection. Today you add it by hand; we are collecting the custodian codes needed to add it automatically. Blocked on data nobody publishes, which is why this is "considering" and not "planned".

Customs accepts free-text port names, but ours come from the official list ("NANSHA PT") while every real filing writes them the way people talk ("NANSHA CHINA"). We plan to learn the spellings from accepted filings so your documents read like everyone else's.

Typing a master B/L asks our records and ICEGATE whether that bill has already been filed — the check behind rejection codes 122 and 123. It ran in the guided steps only; it now runs in the full form too.

Our port list carried the full customs address, so searching for “Khurja ICD” or “Dahej SEZ” found nothing. Both now work, along with the operator names filers actually use.

Pasting “12,500 KGS” into a weight box now becomes 12500, with the unit filled in beside it — rather than being refused outright and cleaned up by hand.

A VCN chosen early can be replaced by the port before the filing goes. It is now checked against customs’ own list of calls whenever you open the filing and again as you sign, and we email you if the call one of your sent filings names disappears.

Fixing a mistyped PAN on the master used to leave the old agent code on every container. It now follows the PAN, in the guided steps and the full form, including on a draft reopened later.

Weight and packages are yours to type at both levels, and the review page shows the arithmetic per container with a tick or a cross — so a master that disagrees with the house bills under it is caught here rather than by customs.

Every filing customs accepts is in capitals, so party names, addresses and goods text convert what you type and what you paste, and characters that cannot be filed are dropped as you go rather than arriving as a rejection.