NCTS5 - Multiple House Consignments

NCTS5 Final State introduces 'Multiple House Consignments.' These can be considered sub-sections of the transit declaration where information can be declared relevant only to the items attributed to each specific house consignment.

Each house consignment covers goods moving from one consignor to one consignee. If every item on the declaration has a different consignor and consignee to every other item, each item can be contained within its own unique house consignment. This is a change from declaring consignor and consignee information for each item individually, as in NCTS4. However, this is not a change to functionality or procedure, and goods may still be moved from various consignors to various consignees as they are now.

In NCTS5 Final State, there can be up to 1999 goods items declared. This is an increase from 999 items in NCTS4 and these may be divided between up to 1999 house consignments, as required.

Where a group of goods are moving from the same consignor to the same consignee, these will be declared to the same house consignment. Use of multiple house consignments will only be possible when multiple consignors and consignees are involved in the movement. Where a single consignor or consignee applies to all goods, this should be declared at the overall consignment level.

Each house consignment can contain up to 999 items, and the transit declaration cannot exceed 1999 items in total.

The process to assign an item to a house consignment is the same for all countries and instructions can be found here: How do I Link an Item to a House Consignment on a Transit Declaration.