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Felixstowe Cargo Processing System: Enhancing Trade Facilitation

Learn about the Felixstowe Cargo Processing System (FCPS), an integrated port information system that has revolutionized trade facilitation in the UK. Discover how FCPS has reduced paper usage, improved clearance times, and benefited various stakeholders in the shipping industry. This article also highlights the system requirements and the upcoming rollout of Destin8, a new port solution.

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Felixstowe Cargo Processing System: Enhancing Trade Facilitation

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  1. 3rd Executive Forum on Trade Facilitation The Felixstowe Cargo Processing system Presented by Alan Long Maritime Cargo Processing Plc

  2. MCP plc Maritime Cargo Processing Plc was set up to manage, market, sell, develop and enhance the integrated port information system, known as the Felixstowe Cargo Processing System (FCPS).

  3. FCPS • Port Community System • Central system/database in Felixstowe • 80%+ of the UK’s maritime container throughput • 3000 users throughout the UK • Introduced 28 January 1984

  4. FCPS Communities • Aberdeen • Bristol • Chatham • Coatbridge • East Midlands Airport • Edinburgh • Felixstowe • Glasgow • Grangemouth • Harwich • Hull • Immingham • Ipswich • Liverpool • Sheerness • Teesport • Tilbury • Thamesport • Tyne Felixstowe

  5. Felixstowe prior to FCPS

  6. HMC COMPUTER (London) paper mountain 1982 30% error rate clearance times 4-5 days

  7. FCPS • Port Authority/Wharfingers • Freight Forwarders • Shipping Lines/Agents • Customs (Local and Headquarters) • Hauliers • OGAs Designed by the Trade for the Trade

  8. Felixstowe using FCPS

  9. one hour or less Average Clearance Times Reduced from 4 to 5 days to

  10. FCPS Functionality • Vessel/Voyage processing • Imports • Exports • Customs Declarations • ICD/ERTS • Transhipments • Road/Rail Transportation • Dangerous Goods • Maritime Statistics

  11. Reducing Paper • Manifests and amendments • Release notes • Bonded removal documents • Outturn reports • Local transhipment documentation • Commercial (lines) release • Rent acceptance • Delivery orders • Export delivery advice • Devan requests and outturns

  12. Reducing Paper • Customs’ examination and sealing advices • Export arrivals • Export load lists • Loading reports • Export Customs declarations • Ship planning notifications and amendments • Hazardous goods reporting • Customs LE profiling, scanning, etc • Govt Agencies - examination, detentions, etc

  13. Reducing Paper • 49 million transactions • 75 million EDI messages • 500+ companies making EDI Customs entries • 110+ shipping lines using EDI facilities • 132/160 services using FCPS Marstats Community System - 2004

  14. Port of Felixstowe Benefits • Improved customer service • Better utilisation of resources • Reduced capital expenditure • Evolution towards automation • Increased profitability

  15. Shipping Lines Benefits • Availability of real-time information • Improved equipment usage/dwell times • Faster turn round of vessels • Internal systems efficiency • Better customer service

  16. Customs & Other Govt Agencies Benefits • Security • Easy access to information • Speed of information - manifests • Anti-smuggling • Reduced documentation • More efficient use of manpower resources

  17. FCPS • Port Authority/Wharfingers • Freight Forwarders • Shipping Lines/Agents • Customs (Local and Headquarters) • Hauliers • OGAs Designed by the Trade for the Trade

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  19. System Requirements • Enhanced FCPS • Browser based • Fully auditable • Secure • Reliable and scalable • Interfacing to existing systems

  20. Summary - Destin8 • A port solution based on 20+ years of practical experience and proven operation • Latest technology • Platform independent • Solution for individual ports or country wide • 20 users to 2000+ users • Rollout in UK from September 2005

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