International Customs Forum 2021

Today the International Customs Forum in Moscow, Russia started. One of the first international IRL events post-Pandemic. Naturally with a strong focus on Covid-19 safety of the visitors and organizers.

The focus and theme of the ICF 2021 is ’digital customs and digital trade’.

Great start of the conference today with many people from Government and Private Sector, from a large number of countries.

Like many countries, Russia is going through massive changes and the Federal Russian Customs service is working hard on their digitalization agenda.

Maersk have huge operations in Russia and we are now going big also on customs services.

I am speaking tomorrow about ’digital trend in the trade and customs world’ including the new Trade superhighways that we are building based on TradeLens.

I attended the forum with my colleagues, Andrey, Daniel and Piotr.

It was great to meet my old friend Ruslan Davydov, who id acting Head of Federal Russian Customs.

I also met several old friends, including my old mentor and colleague Leonid Lozbencho. I have known Leonid flr a long time and he is a really hood friend. He is still very active chairkng the supervisory committee of customs, he also moderated the opening session of ICF.

There where many familar faces at the conference. Friend and people from the customs family. It is great to see them all again – in real life.