Meeting councils West African chargers: a software … – Abidjan.net

 
 
 

 Abidjan – The CEOs of African Shippers’ Councils have adopted the outline of a software that all member countries of the Union of African Shippers Councils (UASC) should be used for the harmonization of cargo tracking Slip (BSC), but have not stopped timetable or roadmap, after two days of work in Abidjan.

“MOWCA presented a portal we have unanimously decided to tweak to serve us as a tool that will lead us to the unification and harmonization of the BSC, “said the general secretary of the Maritime Organization of West Africa and Central, Alain Michel Luvambano at the close of the work.

In the minutes of the meeting, participants mentioned that they have understood the benefits of combining their talents and efforts to be effective in international trade through the harmonization and especially the dematerialization of shipping documents.

However, the general secretary of the UCCA, Saley Abdourahaman Adamou, said the ongoing harmonization is a process adopted for five years and that the Abidjan Assize proposals must be approved by the technical committee which soon gathered at its headquarters in Douala, Cameroon.

“We have agreed to Abidjan to revive project to achieve the end result but the terms will be applied only after the adoption of a road map, “he said.

He said that the difficulties of the harmonization are that the final formula to be applied in the 17 member countries of the UCCA and that in these conditions, “it is difficult to agree on every point.”

The meeting top level of Abidjan was to lead to the adoption of a roadmap, a common software and a one-stop, indicated the president of the Ivorian Office chargers (ICO), Fako Kone to Opening Thursday work.

The BSC aims to provide reliable statistics while helping to ensure the traceability of cargo and allowing operators to anticipate the customs and port procedures.

Twenty coastal states located along the north side and south of the Atlantic Ocean and five landlocked countries served by the coastal ports, participated in the meeting organized jointly by the Maritime Organization of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) and Ivorian Office chargers (ICO).

They brainstormed for two days, on how to achieve a common mechanism for systems management and data import and export countries concerned to control flows, the nature, content, frequency of shipments from the liberalization of the sector in 1990.

(AIP)
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