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Maersk Customer Advisory

Maersk has now suspended bookings to/from both Russia and Ukraine until further notice. Exempted from the booking suspension to/from Russia is foodstuffs, medical and humanitarian supplies. Maersk, however, warn caution on still placing bookings for perishable cargo due to significant delays in key…

New phytosanitary requirements for the export of Canadian pine wood to China

(Le français suit) Update March 01, 2022: China Customs has confirmed that containers carrying pine wood (Pinus spp.), including lumber and logs, are not allowed to transship (be taken off an inbound vessel and loaded onto a second vessel) through unapproved ports, en route to an approved port…

New CFIA Import Requirements – Pet Chews from Animal Origin

(Le français suit) On May 2nd, 2022, new import requirements for simple pet chews will be published in the Automated Import Reference System. The conditions will be modernized and simplified to more clearly categorize imported products. One of the changes applying to all chews is a clarification…

Government of Canada Moves to Prohibit Import of Russian Oil

Today, the Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the Government of Canada will ban crude oil imports from Russia. According to the Canada Energy Regulator, Canada does not currently import any crude oil from Russia, and has not since 2019. The new ban will…
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CBSA follows-up with additional B2 Information

At the CSCB’s 2021 national annual conference session on B2s, some questions were asked but not answered during the session. CBSA took those questions away and have provided the following responses. It was shared that efforts are underway to improve the response time for status inquiries. Have…

CFIA-AIRS Updates March 1st, 2022

Chapter 06 was published to: i) remove the following OGD extension. 06.02.10.0115 - Star jasmine, confederate jasmine - Unrooted plants (Trachelospermum jasminoides) ii) add the following OGD extensions. 06.02.10.0016.53 - Salpichroa spp. - Unrooted plants 06.02.10.0023.23 - Star jasmine…

Maersk and Ukraine

In order to address the situation in the Ukraine, Maersk has announced that they are moving cargo to and from Ukraine to ports with less yard density that still possess the required reefer plugs to retain perishable commodities and introduced a series of relief packages to assist customers and the…

CFIA-AIRS Updates February 28th, 2022

A) Chapter 11 was published to add the following OGD extension. 11.06.10.7100.50 - Flour, meal and powder: Of guar Meal Korma (or Guar germ). B) Chapter 23 was published to add the following OGD extension. 23.02.50.7199.01 - Guar Meal Korma (or Guar germ). Please verify your version numbers before…

CMA CGM Group Black Sea and Ukraine Sailing Update

In the interest of safety, the Group has decided to suspend all vessel calls to Ukraine as of today and until further notice. As a result: The BEX and BSMAR services will omit Odessa, Ukraine. Bookings to and from Odessa are suspended. The floating cargo to Ukraine will be redirected to the ports of…

Planned CARM Outage / Interruption prévue de la GCRA

CARM Client Support (CCS) RE: Planned CARM Outage Please be advised that all CARM Services, including the Client portal, will be unavailable Saturday, February 26, 2022 from 10 a.m. (Eastern Time) to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) due to monthly maintenance of the servers. Thank you for your patience…