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Impressive team and a great photo! Nice to see TTEK demonstrating once again it has the best and most talented (+ largest group of) Customs and Trade experts globally. Keep up the great work TTEK!
TTEK's team members (starting from back left and proceeding to front right):
Raymond Thibeault
Sean Tatham
Peter Hughes
John Dolimount
Ivan Peterson
Bruce Palmer
Martin Wilde
Dean Hogarth
Pim Berkhuizen
Looking good fellas!
Make sure to put this event in your calendar. TTEK’s CTO Mike Squirrell will join this discussion and provide an always entertaining and thought provoking presentation on data analytics and Ai.
If you’ve seen him speak before -including the buzz he created at the last WCO IT Conference in Maastricht, then you know this is not to be missed. We learn more every day because of Mike as the leading Ai evangelist in Trade and Customs. This is the guy. Don’t miss it!
Sign up for the webinar here.
Coordinated Border Management (CBM) is a concept providing the principles and frameworks for multiple agency coordination and cooperation. Constructive discussion on CBM between the right stakeholders can define a roadmap for establishing a structured and effective collaboration among border agencies, which in turn will provide the necessary balance for success. Success is achieved by balancing trade facilitation with enhanced security controls, which will result in economic prosperity for the UAE and it’s regional partners.
TTEK recently re-started a Customs revenue enhancement engagement with the Bahamas Ministry of Finance, after it was temporarily paused due to Covid-19 and the ongoing pandemic travel restrictions back in June 2020. This current phase of the project has primarily focused on strengthening the capabilities of the Bahamas Customs Post Clearance Audit (PCA) program. Prior to this phase, TTEK’s Ai-driven technology was employed to perform a revenue forensics analysis, which identified the most likely areas of revenue leakage associated with recent importations.
Barbados, Sept 29, 2021 - TTEK Inc., a leader in advanced technology for the optimization of customs and border processing, has been engaged by Malagasy Customs to provide experts and training on Customs Risk Management in Madagascar.
TTEK recently contributed to the 2021 World Free Zone Organization Conference in Dubai and demonstrated how TTEK's disruptive Ai Technology is used for Free Zone and Safe Zone Management. We have an Uber solution to promote transparency, trade facilitation, supply chain visibility, border visibility, risk determination for improved controls, and collaboration between the trading Community, ports and terminal operators, and government agencies like Customs. Watch the video and see how the principles being discussed for Free Zone and Safe Zone Management are enabled by real world technology!
*Note: This is a very comprehensive discussion / deep dive on Free Zone and Safe Zone Management for in-transit container processing (35min Video).
TTEK has chosen to incorporates Spire Aviation's flight tracking data into our Aircraft Targeting System (ATS) software. Government teams now use our RiskLab ATS™ to display customized displays of aircraft on a map view, such as only showing aircraft currently located in a sovereign airspace (or other defined boundary), or only showing aircraft that departed from, or are destined for, specific countries or regions…
TTEK is deeply saddened by the senseless shooting tragedy in Nova Scotia. Several members of our team come from Nova Scotia and many of us still call it home. For our friends and clients around the globe, the Nova Scotia Flag includes a lion and a shield. It contains a "Lion Rampant" standing erect with forepaws raised symbolizing courage, strength, stateliness and valour, -an accurate description of the people of Nova Scotia. We all send positive thoughts and support to those affected to help them overcome this senseless tragedy, to heal and become stronger. If you have a Nova Scotia Flag, it’s time to put it on display.
Machine learning, i.e. the process of teaching a computer system how to make accurate predictions when fed data, can help Customs administrations to identify revenue fraud or other illegal activities. In this article, TTEK, a technology solutions firm, explains how the technology works and introduces the analytical tool it has developed in this domain for Customs administrations.
It is now nearly 40 years since the WTO Valuation Agreement came into force, and the commercial world has changed radically since then. This has been recognized by the WCO Secretariat and by many Customs administrations that experience difficulties in the practical application of the Agreement. Commonly identified obstacles include updating valuation databases, establishing information-exchange between parties, identifying transfer pricing, managing vast volumes of poorly declared e-commerce transactions, and responding to the changing needs of the business sector with respect to trade facilitation.
At the time of writing, there are 164 countries that are members of the WTO; the most recent addition being Afghanistan in July 2016. In addition, several other countries have chosen voluntarily to adopt the Agreement as the basis for determining Customs value. To meet the terms of their international obligations, Customs officers generally apply up to six practical methods to determine the value of goods.
Read the article in WCO news magazine, here.
