The shipping company, NVOCC or forwarder, who files the HBL data, is responsible for sending the ACI data and the close message.
For all these ACI participants codes are necessary, which the Canadian Customs Authority CBSA provides and which must be applied for there.
In CargoSoft, the codes for the forwarder, the ACI carrier and ACI location codes are stored in the basic data.

ACI CARRIER table

You must load the aci_carrier_t table with the shipping companies and its CBSA codes that you use for the ACI filing/eManifest.

To do this, please contact CargoSoft.

The carrier codes are used as a prefix in the Primary and Previous CCN fields and are provided with a search function in the Carrier field.

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Canada filing - ACI Seafreight

COMPANY → DAKOSY

Deposit forwarder code for ACI tab

Your forwarder code is stored in COMPANY → DAKOSY for each client.

Thus, the forwarder code is pre-assigned in the tabs ACI and ACI Consolidation in the Forwarder field.

ADMIN → EDI → EDI PARTNER

Enter an EDI partner ACI.

Here userID is entered in the ID Sender field and accountID of the customer in the Own ID field.

CUSTOMS → CANADIAN CUSTOMS → ACI CARRIER

The shipping companies and their CBSA codes that you use for the ACI declaration/eManifest are stored in the ACI Carrier master data.

The carrier codes are used as prefixes in the Primary and Previous CCN fields and are provided with a search function in the Carrier field.

Pre-assign ACI carrier code in the order

Settings can be made in the basic data for automatic pre-assignment of the carrier code in the ACI taband in the ACI Consolidation tab as a 4-digit entry in Primary and Previous CCN.

ADDRESSES → Address tab → EDI references sub tab

Deposit carrier code for ACI

The relevant carrier code can be stored for each carrier that is available in the basic data ADDRESSES and with which Export to Canada is carried out.

On the sub tab EDI references the carrier code is entered in the field Reference for the qualifier ACICC (Insert line in the context menu).
This reference is then preassigned in the ACI filing in the Carrier field in the order if the carrier address is used in the order.
The carrier address must be used in one of the 8 (9) order addresses and identified as such in the general company parameters → pls see below.

COMPANY → GENERAL COMPANY PARAMETER → Order data tab

Nominate carrier address as one of the order addresses

In this tab you assign one of the addresses to the address of the carrier/shipping company for your seafreight shipments.

Section Addresses → Section Seafreight → Field Export Carrier: Enter the address number that contains your shipping company address in the TMS order.

CUSTOMS → CANADIAN CUSTOMS → ACI LOCATION CODES

There are Location codes available for the fields in the ACI tab

Port of Discharge - ACI Location Code and
Place of Delivery - ACI Warehouse Location Code.
Columns Port Code/SublocationCode in the search result .

These codes are issued by Canadian Customs and must be sent as such when you file ACI data.

Record location codes in consignee addresses

To pre-assign the locations in the ACI tab, they can be stored on the Consignee.

In the address of the consignee, select the Address tab → EDI references sub tab.

Enter in the Qualifier field

Code ACILC for the Location and
Code ACIWH for the Warehouse Location.

Then fill in the code for the Reference

of the Port of Discharge - ACI Location Code and
of the Place of Delivery - ACI Warehouse Location Code.

ADMIN → CS ADMIN → CS CODES EXT

Amendment Codes

There are different Amendment codes for ACI B/L data in the ACI tab as well as for the Closing in the ACI Consolidation tab.

They are provided by Canadian Customs and are deposited in CS Codes Ext by CargoSoft.

ADMIN → STATUS TYPES → STATUS EVENTS

The status events have already been created for ACI Seafreight using the provider DAK-ACI.

ACI Seafreight setup