Press Release
For Immediate Release
Date: 12 July 2013
Total: 2 pages

NACCS CONCLUDES SERVICE PROVIDER AGREEMENT WITH
‘E-Freight Technology, Inc’ REGARDING ADVANCE FILING RULES
Kawasaki, Japan- 12 July 2013- Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated
System, Inc. (NACCS Center) concluded service provider agreement with ‘E-Freight
Technology, Inc’ (Los Angeles, USA) to enable Carriers and NVOCCs in foreigncountries, the filers of the newly enacted Japan’s Advance Filing Rules, to reportelectronically through NACCS to Japan Customs.
While NACCS has focused its efforts on developing partnership with service
providers based in major seaports where a substantial number of Japan boundcontainers are loaded, E-Freight is the first service provider headquartered in Long
Beach, Los Angeles, the largest seaport in North America by the yearly Japan-boundcontainer throughput.
With 14 service providers (12 overseas and 2 Japanese) in total including E-Freight
Technology Inc, NACCS Center is building a cooperative framework to be fully readyfor the electronic filings from overseas.
■Contact Information on this PR:
Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, Inc.
Planning and Research Department (Takaaki Kanrei, Hidetoshi Aramaki)
Solid Square West Tower 8th Fl. 580 Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku,
Kawasaki city, Kanagawa, Japan
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 this site.
http://www.naccscenter.com/afr/.
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Conclusion of Service Provider Agreement
1. Overview of E-Freight Technology, Inc
E-Freight was established in 1999, and started with one product EFT-eCargo, a freightmanagement software for international shipping and freight forwarders, with hundreds of forms
and reports in the following modules, Air Export, Air Import, Ocean Export, Ocean Import,
domestic shipping, Statistics, Accounting, Banking, General Ledgers.
In year 2000, US Customs started implementing AES Direct - Automatic Export System.
E-Freight is the first logistic software vendor certified in AES Direct link web site
https://www.aesdirect.gov/partners.html,
In the past 14 years, E-Freight has extended services from the US to many countries. In year
2004, E-Freight established Shanghai office, in 2010, E-Freight started Taipei office, in 2011
E-Freight established Malaysia office.
◆ Service Provider (E-Freight Technology, Inc)
Ms. Chen Ma, President & CEO
We are pleased to announce our partnership agreement with NACCS as an authorized service
provider in compliance with Japan’s Advanced Filing Rules.

This opportunity is very exciting for

E-Freight as our goal is to provide complete logistics solutions to our customers, which security
compliance is a big part of. We truly believe that this is a global trend, and Japan’s implementationof the 24-hour Advanced Filing Rule is the next step as more and more nations will follow.
Based on over a decade of consulting with numerous international and domestic clients, while
applying the latest technology to logistics software, E-Freight Technology has developed complete IT
solutions for international shipping, international trade and logistics businesses. This includes aseries of products that integrates freight management, PO management, supply chain management
and customs filing.
In year 2000, we were the first software company certified by the US Customs to provide direct web
link from our Freight Management to the Automatic Export System (AES).

Since then, E-Freight

has played a major role in helping our clients smoothly comply the global customs filing rules,
minimize filing mistakes, maximize using of EDI and automation to provide quality data in ACE M1(AMS),

ACI and ISF filing. We are confident this service will continue in Japan AFR filing.

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