Southern Customs: 85% of ships arriving at Port Kavkaz enjoy simplified inspection procedure
Proportion of vessels entering Port Kavkaz and using pre-arrival submission of ship / cargo manifest to avoid on board physical inspection by boarder control and customs officers accounts for 85% of total arrivals, the Southern Customs Department of FCS of Russia.
The simplified control procedure scheme for merchant vessels entering the Customs Union territory with advance submission of ship / cargo e-manifests that allow the ships to get rid of time-consuming on-board physical inspections prior to docking has facilitated the procedure and increased the number of such ships to 99.5% of the overall calls.
In 2014 the negative trend in terms of the total number of calls was attributed to cancellation of customs control for vehicles engaged in domestic traffic on a ferry line linking the port of Kavkaz with the Crimean peninsula.
However, there are encouraging figures showing a stable trend in increasing freight traffic. Year-to-date, some 5,5 million tonnes of cargoes have been transshipped via nine offshore floating storage terminals at Port Kavkaz which represents a 54% surge from a year earlier.
Customs post of the seaport Kavkaz is engaged in processing import / export flows and the main nomenclature of transshipped goods are imported fruits, vegetable products, equipment, ferrous metals products, facing tiles, metal containers for food, souvenirs, glass bottles, wicker products. Outbound goods are largely grain, acetic acid, edible oil and scrap metal.
Under the Federal constitutional law dated March 21, 2014 (№ 6-FKZ) "On the Admission of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation and the Creation of New Constituent Entities within the Russian Federation, the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol" the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS of Russia) has removed customs control and other state control procedures performed by the customs authorities of the Russian Federation in respect of goods, vehicles and persons traveling between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
The Crimea and Sevastopol Customs have been established on the territory of the Republic of Crimea, subordinated directly to FCS of Russia.