Lars Karlsson: CapacityNow

We work closely with the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, a strong partnership developed over a long period of time.

2022 was a year of extraordinary impact for the organization that successfully delivered ten projects in seven countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, projects that tackled some of our greatest shared challenges such as food security, global health and disaster preparedness through #tradefaciliation.

The work of the Alliance demonstrated yet again the effectiveness of a public private partnership approach. By cutting red tape, generating measurable time and cost savings, the initiatives continued to drive inclusive economic growth.

Here you can find the annual report: GATF Annual Report 2022

Today UK Government published the Border Target Operating Model (draft for feedback)).

This new model sets out a new global, risk-based model for security and security controls at the border. It also sets out a timeline for introducing these controls on EU goods for the first time.

This seeks to deliver the protections the UK needs at its border, while reducing the burdens on traders.

”An important element of this is more use of trust at the border and specifically within the SPS control regime”

Oliver St John, Deputy Director – Border Strategy, Governance and Innovation
Cabinet Office

An important element of this is more use of trust at the border and specifically within the SPS control regime. The draft model sets out the details of how DEFRA wants to take forward pilots of this approach at scale, though there is still a lot of detail to work through. As we’ve discussed we want to ensure the EoT consortia (which were the inception for many of these ideas) are part of those and we’ll be discussing with you further how to do that.

You can find the draft Border Target Operating Model here: UK Border Target Operating Model (draft)

This week I have participated in the ICC Centre for Digital Trade & Innovation C4DIT Digital Trade Conference in London.

I spoke on a panel about Industry experience of traee digitialization and explained how digitalization is central in the Maersk Integrator Strategy to provide end-to-end resilience, predictability and speed – through visibility, supervision, increased planning capabilities and compliance management.

It was a great conference with open, frank, creative and good discussions – covering tipics like; How we can make use of the past experiences going forward, how we generate more innovation, how to create flexible legislative framworks dast, how to enforce collaborative partner models and trust and what is the ’killer app’ that will move the needle on trade digitalization? Could it be the elextronic bill of lading?

I especially raised the element of generating value for customers and incentatives to share data pipelines – using pilots like the UK Ecosystem of Trust, where vompanies like Maersk – and many others – has invested in non-commercial thought-leadership project together with Government to design amd pilot test the best boeder in the world in line with the Border Strategy 2025.

Excellent organization and arrangement by ICC C4DIT.