HE Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Dubai Ports World Chairman and CEO and Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC) announced a platform of six new innovative and pioneering Customs initiatives driven by the cores of government excellence, at the Dubai International Government Achievements Exhibition (DIGEA) 2016 recently, namely; The Virtual Corridor, Smart …
Today Zlatan Ibrahimovic played his last home game in Paris Saint-Germain. The legend will leave his club after four seasons breaking all records in French football. He ended in style. Zlatan entered the pitch on his own to standing ovation at Parc des Princes. In the 10th minute – Ibras PSG number – the …
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 …
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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 …
In Cancun we listened to a great presentation about AEO Brazil done by Jose Carlos Araujo, the Coordinator and operstional manager of Customs (COANA) at the 3rd WCO Global AEO Conference. AEO Brazil is a very modern and interesting AEO programme of world class that has been developed in a comorehenisive and solid way. …
During the third WCO Global AEO Conference in Cancun, Mexico this week – Dubai Customs was invited to present the best AEO programme in the world, AEO UAE. Dubai is the pilot for the federal programme of the United Arab Emirates. The Director His Excellency Ahmed Mahboob Musabih presented the state-of-the-art AEO programme of …
Going to a conference like this one, is for me like coming home. It is like a family party. When you have worked for 32 years in the area of Customs, Government and international trade – the you know almost everybody. Here I am with the Commissioner of Uganda Customs, Dicksons Kateshumbwa and Professor …
The 3rd World Customs Organization Global AEO Conference in Cancun, Mexico has started. More than 1000 delgates from all around the world are gathered to discuss the future of the international standards and implementation of the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) concept. It is amazing to be here with all colleagues talking about AEO, especially …
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We are in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss the future of compliance management. KGH is global market leader on AEO and MRA models. It is natural for us to participate in the 3rd WCO Global AEO Conference. This is our new material on AEO. We have worked with more than forty countries on AEO and …
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 …
Having an early breakfast in the beautiful Cancun, Mexico. Before a run on the beach and my morning swim in the ocean. It is my second time here. I love it. I was here for a WTO meeting many years ago. Now it is time for World Customs Organizations 3rd Global Conference on AEO, …
AEO is not a black box. It is not a project like all other projects or a system that works in parallel with a range of other models. AEO is the new Customs management concept based on a principle of diversion of trade flows depending on risk. It has been all along. Even though …
It is time for this weeks’ first – but not last – airport coffee. For me every day, wherever I am in the world, starts with a coffee. A law of nature. There is something special with coffee. I have had brilliant coffee all around the world, even though Brazil, Ethiopia, Colombia and Guatemala …
Over the bridge, from Sweden to Denmark, to enter on another journey. It is Monday morning, very early. I am in a car. Didn’t get so many hours of sleep, but it is time to leave for new adventures. A planet to save out there. To make better. The world is my office.
It is time to register for the 2016 KW Global Trade and Development Week, GTDW 7.0: Customs and Trade Facilitation Summit in Dubai. This year the event has the theme: Taking Customs into The Future – Stimulating Increased Trade and Economic Growth. The event take place on 31st Oct – 2nd Nov 2016. During …
Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, best known for his iconic sculpture of a revolver with a knotted barrel displayed outside the UN headquarters in New York, has died aged 81, Swedish officials said on Wednesday. The artist, who had used a wheelchair after suffering from a stroke in 1989, died eaier this week. Reuterswärd …
Yesterday I was in Denmark for a meeting with Danish Customs colleagues. In the afternoon I took the day off and stayed for a few hours in Copenhagen, a wonderful city. Here I am enjoying a typical Danish lunch meal, red sausage (pölse) bread, mustard and tomato. And the nost important thing, a Danish …
World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an interactive map that shows the scale and complexity of the world’s shipping routes. If you’ve ever doubted the scale of shipping around the world, here are 250 million things that will convince you of its sheer size. Commercial shipping is vital to the movement of goods around …
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