(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 11. An important place
is occupied by the simplification of intermodal transportation
among the measures taken by customs authorities to develop the
transit potential of Azerbaijan, the press service of Azerbaijan's
State Customs Committee of told Trend .
Committee noted that only the numbers of wagons change without
changing the SMGS waybill in case of container cargo transportation
along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) in the
direction of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in order to speed up the
passage of customs procedures in Azerbaijan's Baku International
Seaport and Port of Hovsan.
'Steps were taken to connect to European New Computerized
Transit System (NCTS) in order to improve measures related to the
business environment and Azerbaijan's position in international
rankings,' the committee said.
'Therefore, Azerbaijani State Customs Committee implemented an
appropriate twinning project in the process of joining the European
New Computerized Transit System (NCTS), in order to join Convention
on Common Transit and simplify documentation in trade in goods and
support, from June 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022,' committee
added.
'Its main goal was to simplify trade procedures between the EU
countries and Azerbaijan,' the State Customs Committee said.
Committee also emphasized that usage of NCTS through the usage
of unified documentation minimized the number of documents required
for customs procedures.
'Additionally, this document allowed us to speed up the
assessment of possible risks through the electronic exchange of
information throughout the route of cargo transportation,' the
customs committee added.
'We also received an additional opportunity to bring Azerbaijani
goods under the 'Made in Azerbaijan' brand to foreign markets,
including EU markets, with the help of this decision,' the press
service said.
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan have prepared an agreement
and technical specifications, within the Central Asia Regional
Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program - CAREC Advanced Transit
System (CATS) program, for software for using an alternative
digital transit system based on the NCTS.
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