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NOV 12, 2004 (newstodate): It is not the text in the AWB, but the availability of the security declaration/Consigment Security Declaration that determines the security staus of an export airfreight shipment going by truck to a foreign airport.
This is the stand of the Danish Civil Aviation Autority on the ongoing debate in Danish airfreight industry circles after the Danish Airfreight Forwarders Association issued its circular in October to warn members of foul play when shipments with a certain "airport of departure" in the AWB do not necessarily ever pass that airport before being trucked out of the country to a continental airport.
-We consider the AWB to be basically a commercial paper between shippers, forwarders and airlines, and we do not want to mix it up with issues of security in the national legislation, says Keld Zulow, Danish CAA, Head of Security.
-We have made it clear that in Denmark only airport handling companies can perform an airfreight security screening, on the basis of which they will issue a security declaration, or the Regulated Agent can issue a Consigment Security Declaration stating wether a consigment is coming fra a Known Consignor or not.
-Thus the receiving handling agent at the airport to actually load to shipment on a flight can very easily ascertain the security status of the shipment. Either it is accompanied by a security declaration/Consigment Security Declaration, or it is not. If it does not have this declaration/Consigment Security Declaration, he should screen it before declaring it ready for carriage.
-In this sense, there is no ambiguity. The situation is of course different if he does not check the security status, or if the non-certified goods are mixed with certified goods on the truck. In that case there is a breach of rules, but even so the issue is to check for security declarations/Consigment Security Declaration, he says.
To assess the situation in the industry, the Danish CAA security inspectors will intensify and increase checks and controls in 2005.
This is the stand of the Danish Civil Aviation Autority on the ongoing debate in Danish airfreight industry circles after the Danish Airfreight Forwarders Association issued its circular in October to warn members of foul play when shipments with a certain "airport of departure" in the AWB do not necessarily ever pass that airport before being trucked out of the country to a continental airport.
-We consider the AWB to be basically a commercial paper between shippers, forwarders and airlines, and we do not want to mix it up with issues of security in the national legislation, says Keld Zulow, Danish CAA, Head of Security.
-We have made it clear that in Denmark only airport handling companies can perform an airfreight security screening, on the basis of which they will issue a security declaration, or the Regulated Agent can issue a Consigment Security Declaration stating wether a consigment is coming fra a Known Consignor or not.
-Thus the receiving handling agent at the airport to actually load to shipment on a flight can very easily ascertain the security status of the shipment. Either it is accompanied by a security declaration/Consigment Security Declaration, or it is not. If it does not have this declaration/Consigment Security Declaration, he should screen it before declaring it ready for carriage.
-In this sense, there is no ambiguity. The situation is of course different if he does not check the security status, or if the non-certified goods are mixed with certified goods on the truck. In that case there is a breach of rules, but even so the issue is to check for security declarations/Consigment Security Declaration, he says.
To assess the situation in the industry, the Danish CAA security inspectors will intensify and increase checks and controls in 2005.