SC 25-007 Starting Friday February 7 through Sunday February 9, 2025, CBP offices located on the Customhouse first floor, 423 Canal Street, Suite 186, will temporarily relocate due to traffic congestion and street closures in the downtown area associated with…

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Effective Sunday February 2, 2025, through Sunday February 9, 2025, the parking spots reserved for Trade Partners in front of the U.S. Customhouse at 423 Canal Street will be unavailable.   As a reminder, vessel agents may enter and clear…

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SC 25-005 The Area Port Director’s office and associated staff, along with the Entry, FP&F, Vessel Repair, Import Specialists, and the Marine Division/Vessel Entrance and Clearance Unit will be closed on the days listed below in observance of the respective…

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SC 25-004 SC 25-004 Attachment Base Metals Center Pipeline 24-15 Please find at the above links a Trade Notice regarding the 2025 Calendar Year Annual Permit User Fee for each permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporate broker.   …

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SC 25-003 Port of Baton Rouge Main Office Line Change: Please be advised that phone service at the Port of Baton Rouge has been restored. Due to hardware and technical issues, the main office line and support telephone lines were…

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SC 25-001 ATTACHMENT  This notice is to remind brokers importing shipments of timber species into New Orleans Area i.e., the ports of New Orleans, Gramercy, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Shreveport and Morgan City for cargo clearance purposes, of upcoming changes to…

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Area Port of New Orleans has established a single repository for all manifests for vessels processed by the Tri-Port (New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Gramercy) Marine Units. Beginning November 1, 2024, all complete and…

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Parking will be restricted around the New Orleans Customhouse on Tuesday, Oct. 22. Starting at 7 a.m., for the remainder of the business day, no parking will be allowed on S. Peters St., Canal St., Decatur St., or on Iberville.…

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SC 24-030 25SEP2024 1022LOCAL: The Port of Baton Rouge is experiencing telephone service disruptions involving all lines. This outage is currently affecting all incoming and outgoing calls. Trade stakeholders and the traveling public are encouraged to use the port mailbox CBP-OFO-BatonRouge@cbp.dhs.gov…

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SC 24-027 Please find below the adjusted Customs User Fees effective October 1, 2024. Class Code Description Fee Limitation 491 Commercial Vessel Arrival Fee $571.81 $7,792.05 498 Barge/Bulk Carrier Arrival Fee $143.93 $1,962.73 481 APHIS User Fee $2,903.73 494 Private…

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SC 24-025 The following valid documents are required to be uploaded to the Document Image System (DIS) prior to the filing of the entrance or clearance in Vessel Entrance & Clearance System (VECS). Document DIS Document Label Required Registry/Certificate of…

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SC 24-023 Notification to the New Orleans Trade Community that telephones are temporarily inoperable at CBP office in the Port of Morgan City’s Houma office.  The vendor is working to restore telephone service as soon as possible. If you need…

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SC 24-021 Notification to the New Orleans Trade Community that telephones continue to intermittently go on and offline at the Custom House, the ports of Gramercy and Morgan City (Houma).  We are working to restore telephone service as soon as…

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SC 24-019 Starting April 1, 2024, the Port of Gramercy can be reached at 504-670-2264. As a reminder, the Port of Gramercy is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, by appointment only. If you have any…

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SC 24-018 We are pleased to announce the selection of Mark Choina as the Assistant Director, Field Operations-Border Security and Trade, New Orleans Field Office, effective February 25, 2024. In his new role, Mr. Choina will oversee Border Security and…

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