It is time to end poverty. It is time to stop corruption in our trade flows. The former Secretary General of the United Nations, the brilliant Kofi Annan, once said; ‘Corruption is the eneny of the poor’.  Customs has always been exposed to corruption. We have traditionally always handled revenue, and thus cash money, …

The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has arrived to the White House for today’s summit with President Barack Obama. Stefan Löfven arrived to U.S. with the Swedish government plane last night. Today the Top Level Summit starts. In total there are five issues on the agenda for the meeting. These include; migration, climate change, …

Today the best soccer player in the wirld, Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced that he will leave his club Paris Saint-Germain after this season, with two games left to go. The Qatari owned club wakted to keep Ibrahimovic who had has his best season of his long professional career brealing all records and so far scoring …

Australia is going to the forefront of global development with the introduction of the Australian Trusted Trader programme in a few months. This is a very solid AEO programme fully meeting the international standards and best practices, but also aiming to go further.  Ms. Linda Geddes, First Assistant Secretary Traveller, Customs and Industry Policy …

One of the panels on the first day plenary session of the 3rd WCO Global AEO Conference today was about the new trends and what is happening right now in the area of AEO and Trusted Trader Progammes around the world.  I was extremly proud to note that three out of four Best Practice …

I have now had my new blog ‘CapacityNow’ published ten days. My old blog, ‘Nothing is impossible’ lived for eleven years and had more than 14.000 visitors/month at the end of the journey. So after a six months break to re-think my platform, I didn’t know how fast the new blog would regain its …

After a few days of meetings and workshops, it is time te head out.  However, I will soon be back. A lot of things are happening here right now. A lot of very interesting and innovative Customs projects have been initiated to take United Arab Emirates Customs – both the Federal Customs Authority and …