BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. The
Middle Corridor [Trans-Caspian International Transport Route] has
nice transit potential, Secretary General of the World Customs
Organization (WCO) Kunio Mikuriya informed reporters, Trend stories.
He made the comment throughout a multilateral assembly on
the challenge to simplify the transit customs process on the
precept of “single window” as a part of the Trans-Caspian
East-West-Middle Corridor.
According to him, this hall is an efficient challenge to
assist the event of the international locations’ economies and set up
cooperation.
“The switch of doc move to the digital
atmosphere is an integral a part of our cooperation, and I raised
this subject final 12 months at one of many main EU occasions. Representatives
of the EU and organizations expressed assist. We plan to contain
the EBRD [European Bank for Reconstruction and Development] and WTO
[World Trade Organization] instruments within the improvement of the Middle
Corridor,” he mentioned.
Mikuriya additionally mentioned that the WTO will, within the subsequent
three years, think about the difficulty of lowering private contacts
between customs authorities and freight carriers.
“The use of blockchain applied sciences will speed up
the digitalization of those actions, and we will even think about
the introduction of those applied sciences into digitalization
procedures,” he mentioned.
