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Spanish custom broker using blockchain to make the customs process accessible, transparent and traceable offer customs clearance and logistic support under outsourcing agreements

Summary

Profile Type
  • Business Offer
POD Reference
BOES20230413003
Term of Validity
13 April 2023 - 12 April 2025
Company's Country
  • Spain
Type of partnership
  • Commercial agreement
Targeted Countries
  • All countries
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General information

Short Summary
Since 2006, the Spanish company specialized in customs clearance, has been adding other services (storage, picking, international transport…) for address the new market needs. Recently included blockchain technologies to offer security and transparency to all documentation from the operations and makes it fully accessible to clients under a totally secure environment. The firm is looking for partners opened to subcontracting/outsourcing agreements for acceleration of its international trades
Full Description
One of the great challenges faced by companies that want to export is transportation. The success of the processes related to it will depend, to a large extent, on its competitiveness in the foreign market.

Estimating transport costs, negotiating with an importer, establishing agreements to avoid risks, knowing the customs of the destination country or even adapting the product to the physical conditions of the chosen transport are just some of the crucial aspects that companies that want export must, previously, value.

With the idea of helping companies in a fast and transparent way in their national and international logistics process, since 2006 the Spanish company specialized in customs clearance has been constantly evolving in which it has been adapting to the changes that international trade has required. This is why, throughout these years, it has specialized in customs clearance and physical inspections of merchandise, providing or managing shipments to and from anywhere in the world.

Taking into account the current growth situation of e-commerce, especially increased by the global pandemic, the firm takes another step to be up-to-date and offers a new communication and document management thread with its clients, betting on the online platform. From this platform, it simplifies communication with the clients and with the players involved in the operation, since it has the possibility of contacting directly through platform, in turn, it can give the necessary security and credibility in front of customs thanks to Blockchain technology, monitoring the changes that happened in the related documentation. Using this tool, the company has already done international trades with several European countries.

Furthermore, the firm has the possibility of document management and processing: origin certificates between countries to reduce the tax impositions (EUR-1), origin certificate with Turkey (ATR), convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (Cites), certificates of origin, CE marking certificates, collect statistics on the trade in goods between the UK and EU member states (INTRASTAT declaration), phytosanitary certificates, etc.

In this way, the Spanish company is looking for companies to offer them real control over everything that happens in their trade operations through a subcontracting/outsourcing agreement.
Advantages and Innovations
The company is constant growth and innovating, adapting all the trade clearance processes to the digital world, that’s why the inclusion of new technology like the blockchain platform was an inevitable step to coordinate with security and transparency all the documentation related to customs clearance. Following the same spirit, the next step will be to include artificial intelligence to offer more and better solutions to customers
Stage of Development
  • Already on the market
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 5: Gender Equality
IPR status
  • No IPR applied

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
The Spanish company is looking for traders, other customs agents, e-commerce, etc. in fact, any company who needs something about international trade, to offer them real control over everything that happens in their trade operations through a subcontracting/outsourcing agreement.
Type and Size of Partner
  • Big company
  • SME <=10
  • SME 11-49
  • SME 50 - 249
Type of partnership
  • Commercial agreement

Dissemination

Technology keywords
  • 02003005 - Information processing & Systems, Workflow
  • 02003004 - Supply chain
  • 02003001 - Process automation
Market keywords
  • 02007008 - Business and office software
  • 02007007 - Applications software
  • 02007027 - Other software services
  • 02007017 - Expert systems
Sector Groups Involved
  • Digital
Targeted countries
  • All countries