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11 March
2008
The Saint Lawrence Seaway (SLS) updates to
the e-NOA/D website, e-NOA/D InfoPath template, and Business Rules
are now available. This update reflects changes as agreed
upon by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and Saint Lawrence
Seaway Development Corporation (SLDC) to include the latter's
"at least 96 hours prior to westbound entry of the Saint
Lawrence Seaway (SLS) at C.I.P. 2" notification in its
electronic Notice of Arrival and Departure (e-NOA/D) for the
coming navigation season. For a summary of the updated pick lists please follow this link.
- Arrival Voyage Type of "Foreign
to Saint Lawrence Seaway"
- State of "Saint Lawrence Seaway - Transit"
- Port of "CIP2" (to represent Call-in-Point
near Montreal)
Third Party developers should check the Developer's Resource
Page for associated XML file and Business Rules updates.
ATTENTION InfoPath Users:
A new version (4.4) of the
InfoPath template is now available. It is recommended that
prior to installation of the new template, the old template is
uninstalled to avoid any conflicts between the
versions.
ATTENTION Third Party Developers:
An updated Web Service URL has
been published, https://noad.uscg.gov/noadwebservice/noadwebservice.asmx.
Any questions should be directed to Technical Support at techsupport@nvmc.uscg.gov
14 January 2008
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is
working with the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
(SLDC) to include their "at least 96 hours prior to westbound
entry of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (SLS) at C.I.P. 2" notification
in its electronic Notice of Arrival and Departure (e-NOA/D) for
the coming navigation season. By using the e-NOA/D, which already
combines USCG's and United States Customs and Border's
(CBP) arrival requirements, Notice of Arrival reports will be
further standardized. The SLS changes should be incorporated
into the e-NOA/D website and Business Rules by the end of March 2008. Check back often for
updates.
13 December
2007
ATTENTION
e-NOA/D Submitters and Developers: New automated processes will be
introduced on 18 December
2007 to enforce greater compliance with the e-NOA/D XML
Schema and Business Rules. At this time, the process will not prevent e-NOA/D submissions from
being accepted. However, in the near future, submissions
will be rejected based on the error warnings indicated in the
e-mail message you receive during this pilot process. These
warning e-mail messages should be reviewed carefully, and the e-NOA/D
file should be re-submitted if corrections are needed.
See an example of the e-mail message
here.
The NVMC Tech Support representative will be
contacting the individual developers of 3rd party e-NOA/D applications to
discuss required changes to their software in order to avoid
future problems with submissions.
Any questions
should be directed to NVMC at (800) 708-9823 or Technical Support at techsupport@nvmc.uscg.gov
30 October 2007
Legacy Email Address
Changes
Developers: Some legacy email
addresses will be removed in the next few months due to technology
upgrades. It is recommended that you upgrade your
applications - especially where addresses may be hard coded into
the product - to avoid delays for your users. Updated
information is available on the Developer's Resource site and,
specifically, in the White Paper for third party software
development. Information regarding Production email address changes can
be obtained via Tech Support at techsupport@nvmc.uscg.gov.
Submitters: Please note that, due
to the above-mentioned legacy email address changes, the NVMC
M-Rep staff's new email address will be OSC-SVC-NVMCLiaison@uscg.mil.
The old email address (nvmcliaison@osc.uscg.mil) will no longer
work as of 3 November 2007.
02 October
2007
Several changes have been made to the NVMC Website
& XML pick lists. Details are listed below.
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Several pick lists have been updated in the
e-NOA/D, InfoPath and XML Schema package (for Developers). The
Foreign Port pick list has been updated to include ports that
have been added to and/or changed on the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE)UN/LOCODE 2006/1 Website. The
Crew Type list, the Port_State list, the Agency list, and the
Country list have been updated to incorporate user-requested
information. For a summary of the updated
pick lists, please follow this link.
24 August
2007
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
has published a final rule concerning electronic manifest
transmission requirements for travelers (passengers, crew, and
supernumeraries) onboard voyages arriving in and departing from
the United States.
For sea travel, CBP will require vessel
carriers to transmit passenger and crew manifests for vessels
departing from the United States no later than 60 minutes prior to
departure. For vessels departing from
foreign ports destined to arrive at a U.S. port, CBP is retaining
the current requirement to transmit passenger and crew arrival
manifest data at least 24 hours and up to 96 hours prior to the
vessel's entry at the U.S. port of arrival.
Effective date is February 19, 2008. See
full Regulation here.
19 July 2007
A regular and predictable update schedule is
necessary to allow InfoPath users and third party developers to
better plan for upcoming e-NOA/D changes. To this end, the NVMC
has established a bi-yearly schedule of 30 March and 30 September
(or the first business day if these days occur on a Saturday or
Sunday for a particular year) to push out any changes that will
affect the InfoPath template, the XML Schema, the Business Rules,
and associated pick lists. This does not preclude emergency
changes, or other urgent modifications, from being added at the
request of the Government outside of the posted schedule.
To ensure the most recent information is
being used in application development or for the latest news,
please check the NVMC Website periodically and/or subscribe to the
NVMC Mailing List.
06 June 2007
ATTENTION InfoPath
Users: There are
now two versions of the InfoPath
template available on the Downloads page and via
the Developer's
Resource Page. An additional
template has been added for users who have upgraded to Windows
Vista. Due to new Vista security features, it is very
complicated to install the Windows 2000/XP version on a computer
running Windows Vista. It is recommended that users running
Vista uninstall the old template and install the new Vista
template following the directions outlined in the
"InfoPath
e-NOA/D Application - Getting Started" guide
found on the Downloads page.
It is recommended that prior to installation
of any new template, the old template is uninstalled to avoid any
conflicts between versions.
Any questions should be directed to Technical
Support at techsupport@nvmc.uscg.gov
16 May 2007
Several upgrades have been made to the
NVMC Website & XML pick lists. Details are listed
below.
ATTENTION InfoPath Users: A
new version (4.2) of the InfoPath template is now available.
It is recommended that prior to installation of the new template,
the old template is uninstalled to avoid any conflicts between the
versions.
Any
questions should be directed to Technical Support at techsupport@nvmc.uscg.gov
31 January 2007
The CARICOM Business Rules Addendum
document has been updated to reflect the correct production web
service URL. See the Developer Resources "Resource Files"
page for current version. Click here to
be redirected to the Developer Resources page.
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