ISF filed from the shipment record, against the clock.
Importer Security Filing data is assembled from the purchase order, parties, and booking you already hold, and submitted ahead of vessel loading. The deadline is tracked inside the workflow, so a missing element is raised while there is still time to fix it.
What ISF filing automates.
Data assembled from the shipment
The ten importer elements are pulled from the purchase order, parties, and booking already on the record, so the filing describes the shipment rather than a second version of it.
Deadline tracked to the sailing
The 24-hour pre-load window is measured against the actual vessel schedule, not a nominal date, so a schedule change moves the deadline with it.
Missing elements raised early
An incomplete filing is flagged with the specific elements named and routed to whoever owns them, while the filing can still be completed.
Filed as agent or via your broker
Submit through Freightgate as your agent or hand the assembled data to your customs broker. The deadline tracking is the same on either path.
Filing record kept with the shipment
What was filed, when, and by whom is stored against the shipment, so a penalty inquiry is answered from the record instead of an inbox.
The deadline nobody is watching.
ISF usually sits with one person and a spreadsheet of sailings. A schedule slips, an element arrives late from the supplier, and the filing goes in behind the window. The first sign of trouble is liquidated damages against a shipment that already arrived.
The clock lives on the shipment.
Freightgate holds the filing window on the shipment record and measures it against the real sailing. Missing data raises an exception while it is still actionable, so on-time filing is the default state rather than a personal responsibility.
What importers ask first.
What is Importer Security Filing?
Importer Security Filing, commonly called ISF or 10+2, requires the importer of record to submit shipment data to US Customs and Border Protection ahead of vessel loading at the foreign port. Ten data elements come from the importer and two from the carrier. Late, inaccurate, or missing filings carry liquidated damages.
When does the ISF have to be filed?
The importer data set is due no later than 24 hours before the cargo is laden aboard the vessel at the foreign port. Freightgate tracks that deadline against the actual sailing on the shipment record, so the clock is visible while there is still time to act on it.
Where does the filing data come from?
From the shipment record you already maintain: the purchase order, the commercial parties, the container and booking data. Because the data is assembled rather than rekeyed, the filing matches the shipment it describes. See Purchase-Order Management.
What happens if data is missing close to the deadline?
The shipment is flagged as at risk with the specific missing elements named, and routed to whoever owns them. The exception is raised while the filing can still be completed, not after the vessel has loaded.
Can Freightgate file on our behalf as agent?
Yes. Filing can be submitted by Freightgate as your agent or handed to your customs broker, with the same data set and the same deadline tracking either way.
Does ISF connect to the rest of the compliance workflow?
Yes. The same shipment record drives denied party screening, SOLAS VGM capture, and customs documentation, so one set of data supports every control rather than each one collecting its own.
Controls on the same shipment record.
See a filing assembled from your own shipment data.
Bring one import lane. We will show you the ten elements pulled from the record, the deadline tracked against the sailing, and the exception that fires when something is missing.