Extended Single Window – Information Gateway to Europe
Start: June 2010
Period: 4 years
New Information and Governance Models for International Trade & Logistics
This research projects develops solutions to major issues faced by international logistics industry:
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Need for seamless and reliable supply chains
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Compliance to revised European coordinated border management procedures
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Need to reduce the costs of compliance to governance requirements
The vision is to develop an integrated coordinated border management solution for ports and airports integrating with previous and subsequent procedures for reliable, secure, and cost effective logistic chains as a prerequisite for the Netherlands to serve as an excellent gateway to Europe. This coordinated border management, ‘Extended Single Window’, requires efficient and reliable information for effective joint supply chain planning by shippers, goods owners, transportation companies, forwarders, terminals and other logistic service providers and to use this information to meet government laws and regulations in a cost effective way, e.g. customs and agricultural procedures and VAT.
The main purpose of Extended Single Window is re-usability of business data by all government authorities for all types of goods movements. Within the context of Single Window, two main approaches can be distinguished:
The first approach is still a transaction based declaration approach. It is the objective of government authorities to extend such an approach with information re-use between authorities based on one declaration and events for exchanging updates of declaration data by business.
In the second approach, business processes of logistic actors gather all relevant information, including physical cargo/container tracking by for instance GPS technology. This information is available to government authorities like customs and allows these authorities to track goods movements across borders. This approach based on a data pull principle (e.g. like experimented in ITAIDE) extended with an event mechanism indicating any changes thus allowing seamless and paperless logistics. It requires federated security mechanisms and globally accepted open standards.
> project plan Extended Single Window
Project manager: Ir. G.R. Zomer (email address Gerwin.zomer@tno.nl)
