Software to monitor imports and exports

By HELEN TARAWA
A scoping study for electronic data exchange between National Fisheries Authority, Fisheries Information Management System and PNG Customs Services for the monitoring of imports and exports is near completion, National Planning Secretary Hakaua Harry says.
This is through what is known as the ASYCUDA software.
Harry said this was an example of better systems development and integration into best practices.
“In a complex high-tech global trading sphere, PNG must have the necessary technological system that can be compatible,” she said.
“It is our vision to see that we develop an institutionalised national single-window system in PNG in the near future.
“This will create efficiencies in electronic information and trade transactions for Government and the private sector to use.”
Harry commended the partnership that PNG had with the European Union which led to the achievements of the Trade Related Agreement Phase 2 projects.
“We celebrated our 40 years of partnership,” she said.
“We‘ve grown from a donor-recipient arrangement to a partnership relationship at all levels of government, especially at the political level.
“We are in a critical juncture in this relationship when, in the next two years, we will see a new partnership arrangement emerge as the current Cotonou Partnership agreement ends by 2020.