‘Time for hauliers to get ACM-ready’

With the deadline looming for
electronic submission of manifests
to SA Revenue Service by road
transport operators, Compu-Clearing
has developed a solution that will
take care of all the administrative
hoops for the transport operator, says
managing director Mario Acosta-
Alarcon.
“By the beginning of next year
Customs will enforce the ACM
(Automated Cargo Management)
system for road hauliers who move
cargo across our borders,” said
Acosta-Alarcon. “Failure to comply
will force trucks to queue in the
‘manual’ lane at the borders, while
their EDI-ready counterparts will
pass the controls in no time,” he said.
“We’re offering a dedicated cloudbased
system, built using the cCloud
platform,” he said. “It’s easy to use
and without the burden of long-term
contracts. If a transporter needs to
start sending road manifests to Sars,
all he needs to do is register with us
and by the time Customs enforces the
ACM Road, our application will be
taking care of the communication.”
Compu-Clearing will also provide
assessment of the registration process
free of charge through specialists
who have been handling this on
behalf of customers for many
years, he added.
“If the transporter is large enough
to have manifest data in some sort of
electronic format and he doesn’t want
to recapture it, we will integrate the
data into our system at no cost.”
While freight forwarders, airlines
and shipping lines have been sending
manifests electronically to Sars for
some time, the roadfreight industry
has until now been excluded.
The latest moves will bring them
into line with the rest of the industry.