Cooperation with customs authorities fosters trade
IAPH was honoured to welcome Ricardo Treviño Chapa at IAPH World Ports Conference for the launch of the first evert International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) World Customs Organization Guidelines on Cooperation between Customs and Port Authorities Patrick Verhoeven Christian Doepgen During the World Ports Conference 2023 in Abu Dhabi we launched the joint World Customs Organization - International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) cooperation guidelines. Maritime trade represents 80% of total trade therefore coordination with ports is essential for effective border management and supply chain resilience.
At the World Ports Conference 2023 in Abu Dhabi at the beginning of November, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (Iaph) and the World Customs Organization presented a new joint project for international trade.
Both parties had worked hard together to publish their first substantial guidelines about how customs authorities and port communities can work together to foster trade facilitation.
Ricardo Treviño Chapa, WCO deputy secretary general, and Pascal Olliver, chairman of Iaph's data collaboration committee, pointed out that more trade, higher cargo volumes, effective border management and supply chain resilience in ports do not have to contradict each other. On the contrary, effective collaboration can push all of these goals alike.
The respective session at the World Ports Conference, in which Iaph’s managing director Patrick Verhoeven invited the more than 650 delegates representing 177 ports worldwide to learn from the models of success of eight case studies included in the guidelines, was moderated by Christian Doepgen, ITJ's editor-in-chief. (cd)