Cargo
This section explains what we will require from cargo carriers under the e-Borders programme and when we will start to introduce these requirements.
Cargo companies will be required to provide crew information to the e-Borders system. If passengers are travelling on a cargo plane, the cargo company will also be required to provide passenger information to the e-Borders system.
We will start to make formal approaches to cargo companies in 2009, to discuss the data they will need to provide to the e-Borders programme. We will publish more information about how we plan to introduce the programme to cargo carriers at that time.
Terms explained
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Cargo carriers
These are carriers that operate dedicated cargo-only flights, including mail flights.
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e-Borders
e-Borders is the name of a programme we have set up to introduce electronic border control to the United Kingdom by 2014. It will collect and analyse passenger and crew information provided electronically by carriers (airlines, rail and shipping companies) before travel starts on all journeys to and from the United Kingdom.