• Objective: facilitate legitimate trade, secure government revenues
• Approach: employ a combination of risk management and scanning services to speed up the inspection service 
• Results: reduction of clearance times and congestion, volume of container traffic dramatically increased

Investment
Cotecna has invested USD 4.8 million in scanning technology and infrastructure in Tanzania over the past seven years.
For more information, you may order a copy of Cotecna’s film on Destination Inspection in Tanzania.

Results
The consequences of a Destination Inspection scheme combining risk management (CRMS®) with scanning services resulted in:

• a major reduction in the volume of physical inspections (40% documentary check / 40% scanning / 20% physical inspections)
• more efficient allocation of Customs’ resources
• an increase in Customs value for 31% of files through our customs valuation service and 50% with tariff code reclas¬sification since the start of contract
• an increase of over USD 115 million (16% of declared taxes) in Government revenues in 2009 and of USD 445 million (14% of declared taxes) since the start of contract
• 44’700 containers scanned in 2009 and more than 146’500 since the start of contract
• an average scanning rate of 120 containers per day with a record of 210 containers in one day
• improved legitimate trade by reducing clearance times and port congestion (over 80% of Cotecna’s reports issued before goods arrival in 2009)
• major capacity building for Customs through their full integration and involvement at all stages of the Destination Inspection process

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