diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contract-clearance.service.ts b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contract-clearance.service.ts
index 58f82856e..60eebf3da 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contract-clearance.service.ts
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contract-clearance.service.ts
@@ -848,8 +848,10 @@ export class ContractClearanceService {
   }
 
   /**
-   * GL ET clearance hub: every customs (Path B) contract in phased clearance,
-   * including after booking is created.
+   * GL ET clearance hub, Contracts tab: ONE_TIME customs (Path B) contracts in
+   * phased clearance that already carry at least one uploaded clearance
+   * document — a contract still waiting for its first document has nothing to
+   * review, and GENERAL contracts clear per booking, not at contract level.
    */
   async queue(filter: FilterContractDto): Promise<PaginatedContracts> {
     return this.contractsRepository.findAllPaginated({
@@ -857,6 +859,8 @@ export class ContractClearanceService {
       pageSize: filter.pageSize ?? 100,
       statuses: [...PHASED_CUSTOMS_CONTRACT_QUEUE_STATUSES],
       customsClearingEnabled: true,
+      contractKind: 'ONE_TIME',
+      hasClearanceDocuments: true,
       sortBy: filter.sortBy,
       sortOrder: filter.sortOrder,
     });
diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contracts.repository.ts b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contracts.repository.ts
index be6316ade..3c9c7db14 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contracts.repository.ts
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/contracts/contracts.repository.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ export interface ContractListFilterOptions {
   tradeDirection?: string;
   paymentCurrency?: string;
   customsClearingEnabled?: boolean;
+  /** true → only contracts with at least one uploaded clearance document. */
+  hasClearanceDocuments?: boolean;
   createdFrom?: string;
   createdTo?: string;
 }
@@ -284,6 +286,12 @@ export class ContractsRepository extends BaseRepository<Contract> {
         customsClearingEnabled: options.customsClearingEnabled,
       });
     }
+    if (options.hasClearanceDocuments) {
+      qb.andWhere(
+        'EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM freight.contract_document_review cdr ' +
+          'WHERE cdr.contract_id = contract.id AND cdr.deleted_at IS NULL)',
+      );
+    }
     if (options.serviceTypeId) {
       qb.andWhere('contract.service_type_id = :serviceTypeId', {
         serviceTypeId: options.serviceTypeId,
diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/train-scheduling/train-scheduling.service.ts b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/train-scheduling/train-scheduling.service.ts
index c0aa14bd9..9e82bca33 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/train-scheduling/train-scheduling.service.ts
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-api/src/modules/train-scheduling/train-scheduling.service.ts
@@ -1136,14 +1136,35 @@ export class TrainSchedulingService {
       throw new BadRequestException('Schedule has no train set');
     }
 
-    // Batch parity: a schedule may only allocate bookings that targeted it. This mirrors
-    // the automatic fill, which only pulls bookings whose train_schedule_id is this schedule.
+    // Batch parity: a schedule may only allocate bookings from its route-day POOL.
+    // Under day-level pooling (see fillRouteDayInternal) an unreserved booking has
+    // a NULL train_schedule_id and is only pinned by reserve(); a reserved one is
+    // pinned to whichever train in the day's group first held it. Every train
+    // sharing this origin + destination + EAT departure day draws from ONE shared
+    // pool (one shared booking window), so a booking is allocatable here when it is
+    // either unpinned (NULL) or pinned to THIS train or a GROUP SIBLING. A booking
+    // pinned to a train on a DIFFERENT route/day is a real stray. Genuine route/
+    // day/capacity fit is enforced downstream by validateBookingsForScheduling.
+    // EXPORT never groups, so its pool is this schedule alone (plus NULL pool).
     if (dto.bookingIds.length) {
+      const groupScheduleIds = new Set<string>([scheduleId]);
+      if (schedule.direction !== 'EXPORT') {
+        const siblings = await this.findGroupSiblings(
+          this.dataSource.manager,
+          schedule.originStationId,
+          schedule.destinationStationId,
+          schedule.scheduledDepartureDate,
+          scheduleId,
+        );
+        for (const sib of siblings) groupScheduleIds.add(sib.id);
+      }
       const targeted = await this.bookingsRepository.findByIdsForScheduling(dto.bookingIds);
-      const stray = targeted.filter((b) => b.trainScheduleId !== scheduleId);
+      const stray = targeted.filter(
+        (b) => b.trainScheduleId != null && !groupScheduleIds.has(b.trainScheduleId),
+      );
       if (stray.length) {
         throw new BadRequestException(
-          `These bookings are not assigned to this schedule: ${stray
+          `These bookings are pinned to a train on a different route or day: ${stray
             .map((b) => b.reference ?? b.id)
             .join(', ')}`,
         );
diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/components/contracts/ExportClearanceStepper.tsx b/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/components/contracts/ExportClearanceStepper.tsx
index c94e005ae..df8871b07 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/components/contracts/ExportClearanceStepper.tsx
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/components/contracts/ExportClearanceStepper.tsx
@@ -149,8 +149,12 @@ export function ExportClearanceStepper({
   const entityId = contractId ?? bookingId ?? "";
   // The booking that carries the post-booking steps (gate pass, T1, invoice).
   const actionBookingId = clearance.linkedBookingId ?? bookingId ?? null;
+  // Per-booking GENERAL clearance runs on a bare instance that only becomes a
+  // real booking once GL completes it — the caller's bookingCreated prop carries
+  // that signal, so a booking-keyed view must NOT count as "created" by itself
+  // (it would lock GL Ethiopia out of the declaration step right after the RO).
   const effectiveBookingCreated =
-    bookingCreated || Boolean(clearance.linkedBookingId) || isBooking;
+    bookingCreated || Boolean(clearance.linkedBookingId);
 
   const activeStep = useMemo(
     () => computeExportActiveStep(clearance, bookingMilestones, effectiveBookingCreated),
diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/pages/bookings/DocumentClearanceDetailPage.tsx b/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/pages/bookings/DocumentClearanceDetailPage.tsx
index bb271e205..79d35aa7d 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/pages/bookings/DocumentClearanceDetailPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-web/backoffice/src/pages/bookings/DocumentClearanceDetailPage.tsx
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ export default function DocumentClearanceDetailPage() {
                     // stepper's "Create booking" step must read as NOT-yet-created
                     // so it never claims the booking is done before GL completes it.
                     bookingCreated={Number(booking?.totalAmount ?? 0) > 0}
+                    bookingMilestones={bookingMilestones ?? []}
                     onChanged={() => void refetch()}
                     onViewFile={view}
                     onDownloadFile={(f) => void downloadBookingFile(f.id, f.name)}