Press Release
For Immediate Release
Date: 6 December 2012
Total: 4 pages

NACCS SIGNS SERVICE PROVIDER AGREEMENTWITH ‘TRADE-VAN INFORMATION SERVICES CO.’REGARDING ADVANCE FILING RULES

Kawasaki, Japan- 6 December 2012- Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated
System, Inc. (NACCS Center) signed the agreement on 5 December, 2012 with Service
Provider ‘Trade-Van Information Services Co.’ (Taipei, Taiwan) to connect each other’ssystem to enable Carriers and NVOCCs in foreign countries, the filers of the newly enacted
Japan Advance Filing Rules, to report electronically through NACCS to Japan Customs as
details shown in the attachment.
This is the second time NACCS Center signed the agreement on system connection withservice providers regarding Advance Filing Rules.
*Advance Filing Rules: On March 30, 2012, a bill to amend part of the Customs Law
passed through the Diet in Japan. This amendment enacts the Advance Filing Rules,
which require a vessel operator or a NVOCC to electronically submit information on
maritime container cargoes to be loaded on a vessel intended to entry into a port inJapan, to Japan Customs in principle no later than 24 hours before departure of thevessel from a port of loading. The electronic report from foreign filers will be madethrough service providers authorized by NACCS Center.
For further information, please visit NACCS Center website. Advance Filing Rules page has
information on such as operations of the rules and list of authorized Service Providers.
http://www.naccs.jp/e/afr/index.html
Contact Information on this Press Release
Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, Inc.
Planning and Research Department
Takaaki Kanrei, Hidetoshi Aramaki
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Tel ：044-520-6278
Fax：044-520-6247

E-mail: afr-c@naccs.jp

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Service Provider Agreement with
‘TRADE-VAN INFORMATION SERVICES CO.’◆The date of Agreement: 5 December 2012
◆The place of Agreement: Grand Hi-Lai Hotel, Kaohsiung(The place of 42nd Pan Asian e-commerce Alliance meeting)◆Person signed the agreement
NACCS Center : Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, Inc.
Mr. Takuo Yoshimoto
President & CEO
Service Provider: Trade-Van Information Services Co.
Ms. Joyce LienCEO
【Signing the agreement】

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◆ Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System, Inc.
Mr. Takuo Yoshimoto, President & CEOI would like to announce today that NACCS Center has signed the service provider
agreement with Ms. Joyce Lien, CEO of Trade-Van Information Services Co., regarding
Advance Filing Rules using the opportunity of PAA (PAN ASIAN e-COMMERCE ALLIANCE)
meeting.
As many of you know, in consideration of situations in other countries, Japan has introduced
Advance Filing Rules which will be implemented in March 2014. The rules require a vessel
operator or NVOCC to electronically submit detailed information on maritime container cargos
to be loaded on a vessel intended to entry into a port in Japan, to Japan Customs in principle
no later than 24 hours before departure of the vessel from a port of loading. For us NACCS
Center, information from filers is sent/received through authorized service providers
connected to NACCS is the crucial point.
Trade-Van is the second service provider authorized by NACCS Center, following the firstagreement signed on 30 November. NACCS Center is proceeding with agreements withoverseas service providers to construct system to receive information from overseas filers.
We consider this agreement as a big step forward for global activity of NACCS Center.
Our new “business partner” Trade-Van cooperated and provided us an opportunity to visit
filers in Taiwan when our staffs visited Trade-Van Headquarters. Those visits enabled us toPR overview of the planned system on the Advance Filing Rules and the roles of service
providers to related parties in Taiwan in early stage.
With celebrating Trade-Van signed the connection agreement today and became thesecond service provider authorized by NACCS Center, Trade-Van and NACCS Center willclosely cooperate and construct the system scheduled to implement in March 2014.
Thank you.

3◆ Message from Trade-Van Information Services Co.

Trade-Van Information Services Co. was formerly "The Cargo Clearance Automation
Planning and Promotion Task Force" established under the Ministry of Finance in 1990 as thefirst EDI information exchange service network in Taiwan. Following the privatization of thistask force in 1996, Trade-Van was formed to provide value added services, including both
B2G and B2B services.
Bearing the mission to connect the customs, trade and logistics community, Trade-Van has
developed and is now operating more than 50 ASP services to facilitate electronic informationexchange for over 48,000 users.
Today, Trade-Van is the single service point in Taiwan providing complete value chain forcustoms clearance and trade facilitation services. Besides enabling its users for domestics
paperless trading and e-commerce applications, Trade-Van is also aiming to provide a secure
total solution for Taiwan trading and logistics communities in fulfilling their cross bordertransaction.
'By signing the service provider agreement with NACCS to facilitate the advance cargo
information submission to Japan, Trade-Van helps Taiwan sea cargo community submit
manifest information prior to the cargo arrival to meet the new requirements of Japanese
Customs.' said Ms. Joyce Lien, CEO of Trade-Van.

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