What’s in the container?
Arla is a new partner in research project
Is it cheese, copying paper or some other innocent cargo in the containers when they sail through New York harbour or is it really a floating bomb?
Safe and efficient export
A research project at CBS focuses on safety and efficiency in connection with export.
As part of the 5.9 million € research project ITAIDE (Information Technology for Adoption and Intelligent Design for E-Government), which is being done at Center for Applied ICT, CBS has entered into a partnership agreement with ARLA in which they become one of four so called “Living Labs” in the project.
- About ten years ago the project was considered an “action- research project” but the modern concept is “Living Labs”, says Head of Project and Professor Niels Bjørn-Andersen.
Mistakes in 70% of the documents
The purpose of the project is to develop a more efficient e-customs system.
First of all the project contributes to reducing the administrative costs of paper and document handling for companies trading internationally. There are examples of it taking 40 documents in 4 copies to export one item and in 70% of the cases these are filled with errors, like the wrong address or the wrong contents.
Trade across boundaries has to get easier
Second of all the project contributes to a higher degree of security in international trade, so that you do not export atom bombs or the like in containers.
- There are great costs in selling goods across borders. In the long run the goal is to make it easy to trade within Denmark, says Niels Bjørn-Andersen.
Three becomes four
So far Heineken and United Paper Mill have become partners and a large international medical company is going to be the fourth partner in the project.
Arla has agreed to be the source of analyses of the existing methods of doing business in connection with export, just as CAUCT together with Arla, The Tax Department (Customs) and various technology/software providers (like IBM and SAP) have agreed to work out new electronic solutions.