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

Saturday 23 March 9:30pm to 4am Sunday 24 March 2024

Scheduled maintenance for the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) system will take place from Saturday 23 March 2024 9:30pm to 4am Sunday 24 March 2024.

During the downtime, you will not be able to:

  • add import declarations
  • add export declarations
  • validate GMRs

Where possible add declarations to GMRs before or after the downtime.

The GVMS core service will be fully available during this time.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Goods Vehicle Movement Service

Go to the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.

Published 13 February 2024
Last updated 8 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. Planned downtime from 9:30pm on Saturday 23 March to 4am Sunday 24 March 2024 has been added.

  2. First published.