Ensuring compliance with ENOA/D for vessel trading in US waters

ENOA/D stands for “electronic Notice of arrival and Departure”. Both US coast guard (USCG) and “Custom & boarder protection (CBP)” require the vessels to notify them of their arrivals and departure from the US ports. ENOA/D fulfils the Arrival and departure requirements of both USCG as well as CBP. Who is required to submit eNOAD As per 33 CFR 160.212(3) Except as set out in paragraph (a)(2) of section 160.212 of 33 CFR, all vessels scheduled to arrive at any U.S. port or any port in a U.S. territory, must submit electronic Notification of Arrival/Departure (e-NOA/Ds) What all reports are to be sent First Arrival notice is to sent before entry into the first US port of the voyage. Subsequently Arrival notice is to be sent before each arrival to the US port. The Departure report is to be sent for last port in US. So if vessel is arriving from a foreign port to US, arrival notice is to be sent every time for each US port but the departure report is to be sent only for the last US port before finally leaving US port for a port outside US. How these reports are to be sent There are three ways of submitting these reports Through the internet, if you have internet onboard. This can be submitted by visiting https://enoad.nvmc.uscg.gov. Through the Microsoft infopath which is usually integrated by your onboard email pr...