eCustoms should be no issue

The European Union tightens it’s customs policies to strengthen border security on the outer perimiter. Though at the same time aims at decreasing the bureaucratic workload for trade with EU member states.
Two goals that do not go well together….without process re-engineering and ICT support.

The frontier control authorities are streamlining customs procedures enabling paperless and straight-through processes. Electronic exchange and system compatibility is their key for ensuring regional competitiveness, reducing compliance costs and improving security.
This roadmap drives the requirements for your shipping business systems. Can you deliver the required data? On time and in the right format? Preferably without extra cost.

At this point in time it’s important to realize that an ‘one-stop-shop’ customs system for trading and logistics in the EU is still years away. So, currently no single customs network for all EU member states.
You thus need an integrated and handy system yourself, that can broker the required information electronically in compliance with the different demands in the EU as long as these still exist.

All equal, all different

The EU countries on the outer perimiter have a primary job in the risk-assements. Their harbors are the first point of entry into the EU. They require complete and specified information ‘their way’ about all cargo entering the EU (to be offloaded and transit cargo) befor it’s loaded. No entrance without their prior approval, given at the point of origin 24h before loading the cargo.
Should be no issue; just make sure that the registrations in the front-end of your operations are on par. The system can handle the rest.

We help our customers with a paper-free environment at the source. A single (input) platform of operations that simplifies and streamlines customs processes and procedures. Our software solution is fully integrated and ready to communicate in any standard and format. We can proof that the EU’s dual strategy is achievable; saving time and money on business transactions, with full compliancy to all involved regulations (including customs).

Our help now also safeguards that you are future ready for other trade regions that follow the EU’s example with their own set of standards and procedures. Slightly different ofcourse in their local aim for security and simplification of trade.