The Customs Division of Ghana Income Authority (GRA) can pilot the brand new UNIPASS commerce facilitation software on the Takoradi Port from subsequent week, as a result of it look to implement what it describes as “the best end-to-end Customs management system available”.
Commissioner of Customs, Col. Kwadwo Damoah, WHO disclosed this at a sensitization workshop for journalists on the brand new system in nationwide capital, indicated that the UNIPASS single window platform incorporates a ton of benefits to produce every inside and exterior customers;one thing the port group would attest to as soon as the system is unrolled.
“We need to assure all stakeholders that we tend to sink or swim along and thus, within the national interest, no matter we’ve got to try to to to make sure that we tend to get the simplest qualitative, real worth for cash in any service provision, we are going to mate,” he similar decidedly.
He conjointly even the requirement for the brand new system: “We are alert to the prevailing infrastructure for customs processes however this–[UNIPASS]–is the sole one to date that gives end-to-end services ranging from the start to the top.”
The stance of the GRA defies cautions from quite a few circles at intervals the maritime space and totally different civil society our bodies on the requirement to stick with the prevailing single window in order to not severely disrupt commerce and income flows.
Coverage think-tank, IMANI continent, has questioned why the ministries of Commerce and enterprise and Finance are resolute commutation the prevailing dependable customs and ports applied sciences with UNIPASS—an costly and untested ports valuation system.
Critics of the UNIPASS have conjointly cited the possible distortions that the brand new system can deliver across the transport group, notably at a time that the ports’ stakeholders have been acquiring in-tuned with present cross Westblue Consulting and GCNetcoupled with the spectacular positive aspects of the paperless port reforms.
However in line with the Customs boss, the UNIPASS are going to be unrolled in a really systematic, well-planned method in step with ready infrastructure with additional infrastructure being offered supported the exams that should date been performed.
“Certainly, everything that’s needed by means of infrastructure are going to be in situ by the time we tend to are able to rollout absolutely.”
UNIPASS is affiliate digital clearance system that computerizes Customs procedures and gives for the automation of the clearance technique as a solution to beat inflated volumes in commerce and vacationers.
It encompasses 5 subordinate programs particularly: single window system, clearance administration system, loading administration system, information administration system related an physique system.
The brand new system is anticipated to chop again clearance worth and time in step with the planet Customs Group’s Commerce Facilitation Settlement. It conjointly has affiliate built-in threat administration system that the profiles data firms and vacationers so on monitor behaviour and threat patterns.
Different elevated choices embrace development in cost methods to include group motion by way of digital platforms like Visa, Momo, Cell App additional as internet banking.
