IAPH and World Customs Organization (WCO) will produce customs-port guidelines to help port authorities that want to bring their operation to the next level.
Namely, during an online workshop on collaboration between customs and port authorities, organised by IAPH and WCO, presented best practices from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Netherlands, United States and United Arab Emirates.
These regarded institutional and legal frameworks, the use of digital systems and potential other areas of cooperation to enhance both the facilitation and security of maritime supply chains.
The workshop marks the reinvigoration of our partnership with the World Customs Organization, the roots of which go back to 1987, the year in which we signed our initial memorandum of understanding
said IAPH.
The workshop is considered as a steppingstone for a process where IAPH and WCO will structurally help customs and port authorities that want to bring their mutual collaboration to the next level.
More specifically, at the recent WCO Permanent Technical Committee meeting, the chairman of IAPH’s Data Collaboration Committee, Pascal Ollivier, presented a proposal to produce a set of joint IAPH-WCO guidelines on customs and port authorities’ collaboration, which received positive feedback.
In follow-up to the workshop, a working group of customs and port authority experts will be convened to start the drafting process on those guidelines.
