Guidance

Goods Vehicle Movement Service — service availability and issues

Check the availability of the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) and get information on any issues.

Service issues

If there are any issues with the service we will tell you about the temporary arrangements to keep your goods moving.

Scheduled maintenance

ThursdayGVMS 2330 Maymin 2024outage 7pmon toSaturday 8:30pm15th June 10pm-10.30pm

Due to scheduledplanned maintenance,maintenance work on GVMS you will be unable to accessobtain theand Customsupdate Declarationa Servicegoods (CDS)movement onlinereference service(GMR).

Once fromthe 7pmmaintenance tois 8:30pmcompleted, ondeclarations Thursdaysubmitted 23in May 2024.

During this time,downtime you will not be able to:processed.

  • add

    Goods importmovement declarations

  • addreferences export declarations
  • validate (GMRs
) remain mandatory for freight movements using GVMS.

WhereHauliers possiblewithout adda declarationsvalid to GMRsgoods movement reference (GMR before) orwill afterbe theturned downtime.away.

The GVMS coreYou serviceshould willnot beturn fullyoff availablegoods movement reference validation during this time.period of downtime.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Goods Vehicle Movement Service

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Published 13 February 2024
Last updated 225 MayJune 2024 + show all updates
  1. Scheduled maintenance from 10pm to 10.30pm on Saturday 15 June has been added.

  2. Planned downtime from 7pm to 8:30pm on Thursday 23 May 2024 has been added.

  3. Planned downtime from 9:30pm on Saturday 23 March to 4am Sunday 24 March 2024 has been added.

  4. First published.