East Africa brings in Singapore's GUUD to facilitate digital trade document flows
Work on improving the East African Community’s (EAC) single customs territory (SCT) has continued with the selection of a Singaporean technology provider to design a system for digital trade documentation flows. The EAC, which comprises Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, launched the single customs territory in 2013. It is designed to ease trade between the five member states and trim costs by clearing shipments at their first port of arrival or departure, but inefficient flows of customs information have hindered its effectiveness. Singapore’s GUUD, through its subsidiary vCarg...