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What Should I Use for an e-Manifest Trip Number?

Posted by Jason Berberich on January 23, 2007

There are a couple of requirements when it comes to picking your Trip Number for an e-Manifest:

  1. It must be unique for at least one year
  2. It must be different from the Shipment Control Number (SCN) or Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS) number.

Our recommendations:

  1. If you’ve already got a unique Bill of Lading Number, use that for your Trip Number.
  2. Otherwise, we recommend using the numeric part of the PAPS number with a suffix of “a”. For example, with PAPS number GEYE123456789, the Trip Number would become 123456789a

Comments (1)

LucasK:

Trip numbers can be repeated within 1 year. Each submission to CBP is unique with its trip number and date of arrival. Try sending 2 trips with same number and different date of arrival, they will get accepted.

Posted by LucasK | March 13, 2008 10:45 PM

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