As of January 2021, carriers must electronically declare House AWB data for their shipments in Consol or Back-to-Back themselves before the flight arrives in Canada - this is no longer the carrier's responsibility.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) requires advance notification of shipment data for House AWBs in electronic form → eHBL.
In addition to the filing of HAWB data, a close message must be sent to signal that all HAWBs from a file have been filed, with the close message thus concluding the filing → close message.

Thus the process of the eHBL is now a process where first the HAWB data is sent, then the OK from Canada is imported and then the CLOSE MUST be sent. 

  • HAWB data is collected in the Airfreight on the ACI tab.
    Sent from the ACI consolidation tab - first the HAWB(s) and then the close message.
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Basic data settings




ACI registration process

The data in the ACI tab - which is enabled for certain AWB types - are largely preset with values from the order and from the master data. This will be described in detail in the further course.

Afterwards the HAWB data must be sent as ACI application.

The sending is ALWAYS done on the ACI consolidation tab.

This is divided into two areas.

In the lower area you will find the HAWB data - simple in B2B or multiline for Consol loads.

This HAWB data must always be sent to the CBSA first.

For this transmission, there are feedbacks via 3 fields (ACI in transmission, Provider OK and CA ACI OK) whether the HAWBs were properly logged in and sent.

After positive feedback for the HAWBs, a completion message must ALWAYS be transmitted.

This is located on the ACI Consolidation tab in the top section ACI Closing.

The closing is further described under Send ACI Airfreight, Status Messages, Status, Dashboard.

The logon variants for shipments as coloader and buyers consol are documented on the extra pages SMAWB ACI logon and MHAWB ACI logon.