MOL Selects Descartes for European Import Control System

MOL has selected Descartes to help manage its container division’s European Union (EU) Import Control System (ICS) customs filings.

MOL selected Descartes to help manage import security filings into Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, UK, France, Spain and Italy.

With its global filer solution, Descartes is working together with customers, like MOL, to help its customers and partners be ready to comply with the EU ICS requirements scheduled to be effective in January 2011. The Descartes global filer solution is architected to support the 27 EU and other countries around the world that require import security filings.

As of January 1, 2011, the EU Customs Union Security Filing programme is scheduled to go live in all 27 member states of the EU. The programme was developed in an effort to address the security and automation of trade shipments for imports and exports in and out of the EU. The EU Customs Union is introducing these customs compliance regulations to standardise and automate its customs filings process.

EU member states and the community have come together to form the electronic customs multiannual strategic plan. The goal of this plan is to provide the vision, objectives, strategic framework and milestones towards a paperless environment for customs and trade.

Descartes' global filer and global trade compliance services are a part of Descartes' global logistics network (GLN). The GLN provides multi-party collaborative services that allow customers to automate, exchange and manage shipment processes with their trading partners and regulatory agencies.