Press Release
For Immediate Release
Date: 23 July 2013
Total: 2 pages

NACCS CONCLUDES SERVICE PROVIDER AGREEMENT WITH
‘Conex’ REGARDING ADVANCE FILING RULES
Kawasaki, Japan- 23 July 2013- Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated
System, Inc. (NACCS Center) concluded service provider agreement with ‘Conex’(Orchies, France) on 18 July to enable Carriers and NVOCCs in foreign countries, thefilers of the newly enacted Japan’s Advance Filing Rules, to report electronicallythrough NACCS to Japan Customs.
NACCS has been working on the development of relevant environment to enable
overseas filers in the various seaports with Japan bound vessels through thepartnership with service providers. While NACCS Center has already held a number ofseminars with authorized service providers who have local presence in the region,
participation of Conex, headquartered in Europe, will contribute to further enhancing
the environment where potential filers in the region to be compliant to the Japan’s
Advance Filing Rules.
With 15 service providers (13 overseas and 2 Japanese) in total including Conex,
NACCS Center is building a cooperative framework to be fully ready for the electronicfilings from overseas.
■Contact Information on this PR:
Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, Inc.
Planning and Global Business Department (Takaaki Kanrei, Hidetoshi Aramaki)
E-mail: afr-c@naccs.jp
For further information, please visit Advance Filing Rules website. NACCS Center opens thissite as an integrated information platform of the rules. Information on operational issues ofthe rules, list of authorized Service Providers, and information on 'Advance Filing Rules
Educational Seminars' at major cities in the world will be available on thissite. http://www.naccscenter.com/afr/.
1Conclusion of Service Provider Agreement◆ Message from Chief Executive Officer of Conex, Mr. Alban Gruson

After successfully deploying a solution for security declarations throughout Europe (ImportControl System) and Israel (Cargo Report Import), CONEX further expands its expertise incustoms-related declarations by offering a solution for the Advanced Filing Rule (AFR) ofJapan.
Both NVOCC at export and carriers will be obliged to lodge these security declarations for allcontainerized maritime freight, and this before the departure of the vessel from the countryof export. These messages will need to be sent to Japan Custom via NACCS. In order to assist
its clients and partners in this connection, CONEX has signed an agreement with NACCS
enabling us to be an official service provider for the AFR declarations.
CONEX’s client base expands all of the European Union and beyond. Working directly withcustoms administrations across Europe since 1985, CONEX represents over 1600 freight
forwarders and carriers and this number is expanding within and outside of Europe thanks toour professionalism and quality solutions.
Japan is one of Europe’s and America’s key trading partners. CONEX has often returned tothis market both bringing its expertise in the form of conferences as well as its security
declaration offer. We are very pleased to be able to work with NACCS in bringing quality
security information from abroad to the service of Japanese Customs. This enters into a logic
of regional presence through our continued bilateral discussions with members of thePan-Asian e-commerce Alliance (of which, NACCS is a member) and local contact points within
the region of which the first was established in Shanghai, China over five years ago and now
the second is in Yokohama, Japan.
CONEX shall continue to develop its connections across the globe in order to bring a global
one-stop shop for security declarations, using insofar as possible recognized international
standards like the Data Model of the World Customs Organization.

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