摘要: |
The community of digitalization experts in the IAPH Data Collaboration Committee has significantly expanded in the last year with new associate and regular members, as the committee has advanced further to methodically implement the plan of action announced by IAPH and its industry partners in June 2020 to accelerate the priorities set out for the digitalization of maritime trade and logistics. Efforts are being made to find further ways to enforce the already mandatory requirements defined in the IMO's Facilitation Convention (IMO FAL) to support transmission; receipt; and response of information required for the arrival, stay, and departure of ships, persons, and cargo, including notifications and declarations for customs, immigration, health, environmental, maritime and port authorities via electronic data exchange, making the transition to full-fledged single window. IAPH has now jointly set up an initiative together directly with the IMO and BIMCO to promote deployment of the maritime single window (MSW) in all member states by no later than January 2024. This is the deadline that has been now set by the IMO. The Window of Opportunities initiative consists of an outreach by all three organizations to public and private stakeholders beyond port authorities with a joint we- binar explaining the benefits of MSW and a joint symposium that will be hosted at the IMO headquarters in London in early 2023 with practical workshops on how to approach implementation. For this symposium, IAPH will be calling upon its membership to illustrate specific case studies of successful implementation on all levels overcoming the main barriers identified by previous surveys and studies. These are mainly related to governance and legal framework, stakeholder buy-in to share information, and the standardization of data exchange. |