What an absolute ’killer dream team’ we have in GTCC North East Asia – Japan! Top Class! So proud of you! We will continue to grow fast for the benefit of our many clients.

Yoshiko Utsunomiya Emiko Suzuki, Takenori Kamiya, Shuang Geng, Mariko Yamada, Shazana Stotz, Pablo G. Ortega Faraudo

What an absolutely amazing day with customers we had yesterday at the Maersk Customs Client Forum (CCF) Tokyo.

This concept & community of likeminded organizations continues to grow. After HCMC, Bangkok, São Paulo, Copenhagen & Bogota – it was now time to listen the ’Voice of the Customer’ in Tokyo, with many companies including e.g. Ricoh, Kuraray, Inditex & Nissan. This dialogue platform (under Chatham House Rules) provides an arean for talks between invited international institutions, Government agencies & business.

The CCF in Tokyo was a great success & we have received outstanding feedback from our customers.

As always we follow-up with actions for concrete outcomes with commmon key messages & various events unril we meet again in Tokyo in this format next year.

Thank you to all customers that joined us, to our external participants & speakers from International Monetary Fund (IMF), IDE Jetro Interdisciplinary Studies Center, State Department U.S Embassy.

Thank you also to my colleagues in Maersk North East Asia & our outstanding MCS Global Trade & Customs Consulting (GTCC) Team APA & Japan for the hard work in arranging this excellent event.

See you all again next year at the 2025 CCF Tokyo!

Watch out for the next Maersk Customs Client Forum (CCF) – soon in a city near you.

Yesterday at our successful Maersk Customs Client Forum (CCF) for some of our largest clients in Tokyo, I was also delighted to see my desr friend & colleagues since decades, Tadatsugu Toni Matsudaira Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – who we had invited as gues speaker.

Great delivery, as always Toni – and wonderful to see you again, my friend. Thank you for joining us to deliver an excellent insigthful speech to our customers.

You are a great Ambassador for Customs & IMF.