Customs ECCS outage stalls 40,000 daily courier shipments; CBIC orders manual clearance
A multi-day outage of CBIC's Express Cargo Clearance System has snarled international courier flows at major Indian airports since Thursday. Manual clearance is keeping ~40,000 daily shipments moving, but importers, exporters and cross-border e-commerce sellers face delivery delays into the weekend.
What happened
Customs ECCS outage since Thursday has disrupted international courier shipments at major Indian airports, hitting cross-border e-commerce flows. CBIC ordered
Key facts
- 40,000 daily shipments
Why this matters
Outage exposes single-point-of-failure risk in import logistics—accelerate diligence on customs-tech, bonded warehouse, and multi-modal clearance assets that offer redundancy to ECCS-dependent flows.