Delivering undeclared goods to vessels and aircraft

Goods arriving to a vessel or aircraft under a transit procedure

Goods arriving under a transit procedure can be delivered to a vessel or aircraft, if an unloading permission has first been requested for them from a customs office with customer service or via the Customs Clearance Service. Alternatively, the unloading permission can be requested by email from the Customs Electronic Service Centre. The unloading request must indicate the vessel or aircraft onto which the goods are going to be unloaded and where it is located.

After receiving the unloading permission, ask the captain/master (or their representative) to confirm the receipt of the goods with an entry in the transit accompanying document. This document also serves as the unloading result to be presented to Customs.

Submit the accompanying document to the customs office that issued the unloading permission no later than on the day after the unloading.

Customs discharges the transit against the unloading result.

Read more: Discharging the transit procedure 

Goods delivered from a customs warehouse to a vessel or aircraft

Goods can be moved from a customs warehouse under the customs warehousing procedure to a vessel or aircraft located within the territory of the EU. The movement is carried out using a ship supply declaration, a consignment note in accordance with the authorisation for simplification of ship supplies or a re-export declaration. The movement must end within 30 days of the removal of the goods from the customs warehouse.

If you have an authorisation for simplification of ship supplies, the customs warehousing procedure ends when the goods have been delivered to the vessel or aircraft where they have been acknowledged as received through an entry in the transport document.

If such goods return from the vessel or aircraft to the customs warehouse, a customs warehousing declaration must be submitted for them.

Read more on the page Removal from the warehouse or storage facility.

Transit must be used, however, if meat of non-Union origin (so-called directive meat) is moved from a customs warehouse to a vessel or aircraft located at another port or airport. In addition to transit, a declaration for re-export from customs warehouse must also be submitted. However, if the customs warehouse is located at the same port or airport as the vessel or aircraft where the meat is to be delivered, or in its immediate vicinity, transit does not need to be used. In that case, the re-export declaration is used.

Goods delivered from a temporary storage facility to a vessel or aircraft

Transit must be used for goods delivered from a temporary storage facility to a vessel or aircraft.