• Objective: To improve security in Senegalese ports, airports and land borders to facilitate legitimate trade and secure government revenues
• Approach: Utilize a combination of PSI, risk management, e-tracking and scanning services to improve security and speed up both inspection and Customs' processes
• Results: improved trade, increased revenues and enhanced security

Investment
Cotecna has invested more than EUR 10 million in scanning technology, an e-tracking system and infrastructure in Senegal over the past 9 years.

Results
The three core benefits of using high energy scanners are; a reduction of clearance time, increased revenues and improved security:

• Facilitation of trade
  The implementation of the scanners in Senegal significantly reduced the time necessary for physical inspections (average of 12 min per container scanned) and also reduced the percentage of physical inspections prior shipment from 100% to 10%. This significant improvement of Customs’ efficiency meant positive impacts for legitimate importers and exporters alike, rewarding compliance with faster clearance times.
• Protection of revenues
  More efficient collection of duties and taxes led to a positive impact on Customs’ revenues and reduced costs due to a more efficient allocation of Customs’ resources. Customs’ revenues doubled in seven years.
• Better security
  The use of advanced technology to detect non-compliance and to enforce standards through product sampling techniques was the direct result of the integration of scanning services and Cotecna’s Computerized Risk Management System (CRMS®). 

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