‘Compliance is vital to ensure cargo safety, continuity’

Compliance is going to be the biggest factor to ensure safety, security and sovereignty of our nation. Compliance will come with a cost and inconvenience but its high time that trade should recognize that compliance is the key, says Samir J Shah, Partner, JBS Group of Companies. Indian exporters, importers, infrastructure developers and service providers should realise the more compliant we are, the more smoothly our cargo will move. In India, everything happens with Jugaad, tose days will soon be gone, we are seeing the change at lot of facilities which have either been stopped or being show cause as why it should not be stopped,” he adds. With so much amount of change and developments happening, the industry stakeholders are worried about their business continuity. The freight forwarding industry is the one which is going to remain because without cargo transportation, International business cannot happen. Yes, the challenges will change, the way we are working will change, what will happen is, the industry will become domain driven, which means each one of us will have to learn lot off new issues, legal issues, cultural and geographical issues and be in a situation to provide the efficient solutions which are quick, convenient and cost effective. So, the changes that are coming in through FTAs, technology evolution, trade facilitation agreements are pushing freight forwarders to do better, to send more cargo towards international borders. The industry should not worry about continuity, they should worry about adaptability, how they can change with the changing times.”