Technical Exchange Meeting with UNCTAD and Kosovo Customs on PAP for Express Consignments and Regional Exchange Workshop on the Digitizing Global Maritime Trade Project

January 24, 2020

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Bangkok

ARISE Plus Cambodia facilitated the participation of a Cambodian Customs delegation at a trilateral technical exchange meeting with UNCTAD and Kosovo Customs on pre-arrival processing (PAP) of air cargo manifests on 22 January 2020. At this workshop, Kosovo Customs presented a technical solution to allow the receipt of advance cargo information from airlines and express service providers and the sending of related messages through ASYCUDA World, a customs software developed by UNCTAD which is also used by Cambodian Customs.

Back to back with this meeting, on 23-24 October 2020, ARISE Plus Cambodia organised a regional exchange workshop on a planned public-private partnership project titled ‘Digitizing Global Maritime Trade (DGMT)’. This project is being prepared by the German Alliance on Trade Facilitation (GATF) and aims to enhance the efficiency of the pilot countries’ customs clearance and risk management systems by enabling pre-arrival processing of sea cargo manifests through the installation of an ‘Application Programming Interface’ (API) between ASYCUDA World and TradeLens, a trade software used by major players in the maritime shipping industry. Accordingly, the event brought together experts from the GATF, UNCTAD, TradeLens, and the customs authorities of Cambodia and Sri Lanka, which are the designated pilot countries of the project. Moreover, officials from Thai and Kosovo Customs were invited to give related technical inputs.

At the workshop, the potential benefits and requirements of the DGMT project were discussed, and indicative work plans developed for the implementation of the initiative in Sri Lanka and Cambodia in close cooperation with UNCTAD and TradeLens. Once the project is commissioned, ARISE Plus Cambodia would continue to be Cambodian Custom’s local facilitator for the participation in the project.

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