Starting in November (UPDATE: NOW JANUARY 2020), in phased deadlines set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, 100% of all air freight shipments from Hong Kong International Airport must be X-ray screened by March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shippers using Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) could see cost increases and disruption to cargo shipments after the world’s busiest air cargo hub begins to X-ray air freight shipments from the airport in November, with 25% of air freight subject to X-ray by February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will increase to 40% by August 2020, 70% by February 2021, and 100% by March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The phased roll-out is ambitious and there are fears that shortages of screening capacity and trained staff could cause lengthy cargo delays, creating bottlenecks at busy times, which will impact efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are investigating reports that the cutoff for delivering cargo would be six to eight hours before scheduled departure time, which compares with a current cutoff of under four hours before departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metro\u2019s cut-off times are already good, because we predominantly use off-airport screening facilities for palletised and skid cargo, that must be built up after items have been scanned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have been also using Shenzhen and Guangzhou as gateways for some time, particularly when HKIA is struggling during peak periods and may consider diverting more volumes, if cut-off times are not favourable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On-airport air freight terminals have capacity to screen less than 20% of current cargo volumes, so we anticipate a sharp increase in the number of regulated off-airport air cargo screening facilities, but these may take some time to come on stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the ICAO plan, consignors will either have to be approved by CAD as a validated known consignor or be an \u201cunknown consignor\u201d and have their cargo subject to 100% security screening prior to being loaded aboard aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CAD has limited resources to validate known consignors. We can advise on the best option for achieving validation of your vendors, or effective screening, if validation is not possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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