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Australian Report On Progress Towards the Paperless Trading GoalsIn APECˇ¦s Blueprint for Action on Electronic Commerce
used to spend valuable time entering the same data twice.
The new system allows exporters using EXDOC, who have to obtain export clearance from Customs and AQIS, to submit required data via a single message to the AQIS EXDOC system and that system will pass on the appropriate data to Customs.
The integrated export clearance service has made the clearance process for exporters much simpler and more accurate and streamlined. The improved service will be progressively made available to other AQIS controlled food industries.
FoodConnect Australia
FoodConnect Australia (www.foodconnect.com.au ) is an online site assisting the export of food and beverage produce. It facilitates fast business communications, provides secure electronic trading and provides links to relevant sites and information for the industry.
The site will be developed further so it not only assists in matching buyers and sellers, but also allows businesses to undertake as much of the export process as possible online. For example, businesses will be able to arrange payment, transport, insurance and government clearance via the single industry portal.
Harbour Management System
This system, which was developed by the Sydney Ports Corporation, is currently being rewritten for the internet. It allows agents to make electronic booking of vessels calling at the port. It sends messages to the pilots, tugs and linesmen and confirmation of their acceptance is received electronically. The system also manages hazardous cargo, manifest, receipt and invoicing.
Initiatives aimed at the transport services sector (customs brokers, shipping agents etc)
The DOMEDI Project
The DOMEDI project was completed in 1998 with the release of a report for the road transport industry (Trucks Online: Domestic Transport EDI Project, NOIE, 1998). This project established the standards for the development of an e-commerce system for the transport sector based on standard messaging and labelling systems for companies wishing to manage logistics and information in an EDI environment. By exchanging information between logistics providers and their customers electronically, physical goods movement processes can be monitored and managed and paperwork can be reduced or eliminated.
The technology components for effective implementation of these standards in EDI environments include the international standard European Article Numbering (EAN) structure and application identifiers; bar code technology; and fixed-bed or mobile scanners to read and interpret bar-codes. EAN Australia (www.ean.com.au ), a non-profit organisation with just under 11,000 members from a range of industry and other sectors administers the EAN system in Australia.
Customs Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) ˇV Customs Connect Facility (CCF)
CMR (www.customs.gov.au ) will provide new export and import processes in line with emerging industry, community and government requirements. It is also aimed at reducing costs and increasing cargo management efficiency at Australiaˇ¦s waterfront and airports through the innovative and co-operative efforts of all parties.
CMR will comprehensively re-engineer Customs cargo systems and business processes. This $A30 million project will be completed by July 2001. The CCF will provide a flexible secure e-commerce portal to CMR and other Customs business applications and is to be available from early 2001.
CMR will place Australian Customs very much at the leading edge of international Customs practice. The CCF [next page]