No Valid GMR, No Check-In: What Agents Need to Know
At many UK RoRo ports, the Goods Vehicle Movement Service makes pre-lodgement compulsory. You pre-lodge the declaration, then combine the resulting MRN into a Goods Movement Reference before the vehicle boards. Without a valid GMR, the driver cannot check in.
Ireland runs differently, using a Pre-Boarding Notification issued through Irish Revenue before the ferry departs. Agents handling both lanes need to keep the two systems apart, as this CDS pre-lodgement rules for freight forwarders resource explains in full.
Treat the MRN-to-GMR step as its own checkpoint, and this common hold-up becomes far less likely.
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