Saly-Portudal (Mbour), Sept 9 (APS) – According to the director of the customs’ IT system, Colonel Alioune Dione, the new platform of Senegal customs administration’s computerized system, which enshrines the dematerialization of customs declaration and the generalization of the electronic signature, is “a major revolution ”
“This new platform introduced many new features and prefigured a completely undocumented and secured customs’ clearance environment to meet nowadays challenges and reduce customs clearance costs,” he said, Saturday.
The platform also can contribute to the increasing of revenue collection, and to the fighting against fraud and the various trafficking, with in particular consistency of various tools of this system to improve the control palette”, he added.
Colonel Dione was speaking at the opening ceremony of sharing and discussing on the process of dematerialization of customs procedures and formalities of foreign trade.
This new platform resulting from the unification of the cornerstone of GAINDE with “GAINDE DEMAT” and “GAINDE EXTENSION” modules, helps also to preserve national security, “he said.
“We already have the reference document and authorities are looking for partners for funding to connect all customs units of Senegal,” assured the director of the Customs IT system, who maintained that nearly thousand people have been trained to make better use of the GAINDE platform.
This process, which is in a final stage, contributes highly in facilitating trade and modernizing administrative procedures and practices through a “progressive” disappearance of paper, he said.
This process, which is in final stages, is “actively participating” in facilitating trade and in modernizing administrative procedures and practices through a “progressive” disappearance of paper, he said.
“Now”, all computer developments related to this application have been completed and the functional and safety tests are being done by the time,” he said.
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