SCMTR (India)

On an ops desk, SCMTR lands as an advance-data clock: arrival and departure manifest data must be filed electronically, in structured message formats through the ICEGATE portal, ahead of the cargo movement rather than on or after arrival as the older IGM and EGM filing allowed. More parties now carry the filing obligation (the authorised sea carrier and its agent, the custodian, and the parties handling house bill-of-lading data), so each house bill tied to its master bill must be complete and accurate well before the carrier's own cut-off, pushing the documentation chase earlier in the file. SCMTR supersedes the legacy single-manifest IGM and EGM framework, which it replaces rather than runs alongside, so treat IGM and EGM as the older filing rather than a parallel current system. It sits in the same broad family as advance cargo-manifest and security-filing regimes elsewhere, such as US AMS and the European entry summary declaration (the ENS, filed under the EU's import control system), but it is India-specific and bound to the Indian Customs Act, so it is its own regime and not a local version of any of them.