What is the difference of Back-to-Back and Buyers Consolidations?

What is the difference of Back-to-Back and Buyers Consolidations?

  1. Single shipments, also known as back-to-back shipments, are shipments that involve both a freight forwarder and a primary carrier, but consist of only 1 shipment, and are destined to the same primary warehouse as the primary cargo control number (CCN).  Single shipments are considered consolidated for the purposes of ACI/eManifest transmissions.
  2.  Buyers’ consolidations are a group of single shipments    documented on electronic house bill transmissions under 1 house bill close message and are destined to the same primary warehouse as the primary CCN. The electronic house bills must be destined to the same sufferance warehouse/terminal and all shipments are for the same importer.
  3. Back-to-Back and Buyer’s Consolidated shipments are the only two consolidated type shipments that are allowed to clear out of a primary warehouse.
  4. Primary CCN will show with the consolidated indicator as “Y” on the highway/rail cargo or Supplementary Data as “Y” on the air/marine cargo.
  5. eHB(s) will show all shipper and consignee information and complete description.
  6. DECON notice will only trigger after all eHBs are released or acquitted.