The Federal Aviation Authority (Luftfahrt-Bundesamt-LBA) has recently presented the new German air security law for airfreight starting from 1st of February 2006.

LBA's requirements force all suppliers / shippers in Germany to register respectively as so called "Known Shippers" with their individual Freight Forwarders.

Our offices / agents in Germany should have already informed your suppliers in advance. However, in the event they did not, please be sure to notify your suppliers accordingly.

Below is a link to the official form your suppliers need to fill out, only once, and hand over to our offices / agents:

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With this signed declaration, we are able to treat your shipments as "known cargo". This requires - apart from random controls - as a rule no additional technical inspections, so that additional time delays may regularly NOT occur.

Consignments from unknown shippers (means without a signed security declaration) however must be submitted to compulsory security checks in accordance with the definitions of the LBA (x-ray examination, decompression chamber, security storage, etc). Please consider that in this case additional time delays with the loading of the consignment may be inevitable and also costs will result, which we must charge accordingly.

We ask you for your compliance and understanding regarding this new security regulation. Our goal is to further provide a smooth handling of your airfreight shipments within the scope of the official security requirements.

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