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Oct
07
USTRANSCOM Non-Peak Season Call (7 Oct)
Notes and slides from today’s (7 Oct) Non-Peak Season Call are attached. This was the first non-peak call. USTC conducted the call via TEAMS. This non-peak call will happen the first Thursday of each month up to April. Some hot topics were discussed…transit times and missed RDDs. And USTC published another round of draft 2022 business rules at move.mil/sme under the header of “2022 Business Rules” on the front page below the “Advisories: section. They are looking for any industry comments on this round of draft rules by 15 Oct (next Friday). Those comments, like the original round of comments, are required to be submitted using a comment resolution matrix (CRM).
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Oct
06
Update 2021 Crate Rate Increase and Liftvan/Packing Surcharge for Defense Personal Property System (DPS) Shipments
USTRANSCOM Extended the Crate Rate Increase and Liftvan/Packing Surcharge through 31 December 2021. See Advisory #21-0072C for full details.
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Oct
06
Extended International Transit Times Continuation Through Fiscal Year 2022
USTRANSCOM PP Advisory #21-0031A outlines information about maintaining extended international transit times through Fiscal Year 2022 (30 Sep 2022). USTRANSCOM will continue to monitor transit times to assess the need beyond that timeframe.
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Oct
06
Update Discontinue Use of CONUS Non-DoD Approved (NDA) Storage in Transit (SIT) Facilities for 2021 Defense Personal Property System (DPS) Shipments
USTRANSCOM has alerted industry via advisory #21-0081B, that they’ve updated guidance for the use of CONUS Non-DOD Approved (NDA) Storage-in-Transit (SIT) facilities. Of note, changes include that for shipments already in NDA warehouses, TSPs have until 31 December to deliver those shipments to customers. But no new shipments are allowed to be placed in NDA warehouses after 1 October. See the entire advisory for all the changes.
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