The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has confirmed via its Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Bulletin Board that it’s experiencing a systems failure.
It includes both DPS and CPS – declaration and cargo processing systems.
Just after 8:30 this morning, June 19, the EDI Bulletin Board said: “An issue is being experienced with Declaration (DPS) and Manifest (CPS) processing.”
At midday today, there was no communication from Sars about when the system is likely to be up and running again.
Freight forwarders, transporters and shippers have been warned to expect delays.
At 2:30pm the following update was received: "Goods Declarations are now coming back from Sars, there is still an issue on the manifest side, Sars advised they are waiting on declarations to clear out a bit before resuming the manifests processing."
At 4:13pm the following update was received: "Good news, Sars both declaration and manifest are up and running and backlog’s being caught up."
