Submitting your first NCTS Departure
Important please ensure you have authorised ClearPort to submit NCTS declarations on your behalf before continuing.
Important please add a Comprehensive Guarantee or Guarantee Waiver before creating a departure declaration. Navigate to Standing Data > Guarantees.
- From the ClearPort Dashboard click on Create new departure or, from any other page, click on NCTS > Departures from the navigation menu on the left-hand-side, and click + New NCTS departure declaration.
- Add the declaration details.
- Click Save or Save and continue editing regularly to ensure you don't lose your work due to network problems.
- Once saved, click the Submit button to send the declaration to NCTS. After a few moments refresh the page, and you will be able to see the response from CDS.
Useful Tips
- You can create a new NCTS departure from an existing export by navigating to the export and clicking Related Declarations > Link new NCTS Departure.
- You can view the CDS completion rules for a specific data element by clicking on the data element number
- Items can be uploaded from a CSV file