‘Industry stakeholders must apply for AEO certification’

Pramod K Agrawal, Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs, Mumbai said, “We are facilitators of trade. Transparency, cost-efficiency, connectivity and process-integration plays key role in today’s logistics business scenario, and we are working hard in this direction. Recently, we had invited the industry stakeholders to apply for Authorised Economic Operators (AEO) certification, but we didn’t get a good response. I urge the traders to cooperate and collaborate with us to make trade seamless and efficient.” Agrawal, while speaking at the India International Cargo Show as Guest of Honour also mentioned that technology is set to bring a revolution in the Indian logistics business scenario. There’s lot of progress happening in terms of investments and implementation. As part of National Logistics Policy, govt introduced ULIP to improve operation efficiency cut costs and improves agility. Also, there’s need to cut costs but without compromising on the time, quality and security of shipments.”