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The next big opportunity: UK Freeports and Customs Innovation
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Two initiatives are making international trade easier and cheaper: Freeports and the Electronic Trade Documents Act. Want to learn more?
What you’ll learn
- UK Freeports as a stepping stone for international expansion and customs innovation
- The big opportunity in Trade Digitalisation and its developments
- Why the Electronic Trade Document Act can be a gamechanger for businesses?
Description
Explore how you can benefit from the comprehensive package of measures Freeports have to offer and how your business can maximise the benefits of electronic trade documentation.
What are Freeports?
Freeports are special areas near shipping ports or airports within the UK’s borders where taxes and tariffs from importing goods do not apply. Freeports aim to generate economic activity such as new investment opportunities, drive growth, and support trade, innovation, and commerce across the UK. Currently, there are eight active Freeports in the UK.
What is the Electronic Trade Documents Act?
The new Electronic Trade Documents Act is making trading cheaper and easier for British businesses by adopting an increasingly flexible and modern approach to trade documents. Electronic trade documentation can deliver significant cost savings to your business, reduce transaction processing time, and mitigate the risk of human error and fraud.
Speakers
Chris Chatfield
Specialist in Marine Insurance, Kennedys Law
Chris is a London based partner who specialises in marine insurance. He qualified in 1997.
Chris handles goods in transit work, policy disputes, insurance litigation and the drafting of commercial contracts. His goods in transit work includes both recoveries and liability work. He also specialises in warehouse claims, defending and pursuing claims in relation to damage and loss to cargo arising from theft, floods, fires and other such causes. Chris’s work regarding carriage of goods includes both claims and liability matters involving domestic and international carriage by road, rail, sea and air.
Nick Davies
Director, C4DTI
After a 30-year-plus career in HMRC, latterly as an Innovation Lead looking at the application of new and emerging technology in tax administration, Nick was recently appointed as the Director of the ICC Centre for Digital Trade & Innovation. A firm believer in the power of tech to transform the way we do trade and ensure it is a driver of sustainability, he is keen to enable collaboration across all business types, sectors and countries to put the U.K. at the forefront of developing new digital capabilities in international trade.
Ibrahim Mohamed
Strategic Director, Department for Business and Trade
Ibrahim Mohamed is Strategic Director at the Department for Business and Trade and Associate Director of Freeports at Connected Places Catapult. Since 2017, Ibrahim has served as an adviser at the Department for Business and Trade, with vast experience in leading the development of International Trade, supporting the development of foreign government infrastructure programmes and working across Whitehall in the support of HMG trade initiatives and government to government trade programmes. Ibrahim is also an experienced Freeport practitioner supporting the establishment of Freeports in the UK.
Kevin Shakespeare
Director, IOE&IT Academy
Kevin is the the director of the IOE&IT Academy and an approved UN international trade trainer, Kevin has developed several of the IOE&IT’s educational and training programmes including the Diploma in World Customs Compliance and Regulation. He has worked on trade initiatives with Invest NI, Scottish Enterprise, UK Export Finance, Saudi Export Development Authority, among others, and is also the dean of the UK Customs Academy and NI Customs and Trade Academy.
Philly Strahan
Freeport Innovation Network Manager, Connected Places Catapult
Philly is the Freeport Innovation Network Manager at Connected Places Catapult. The Freeport Innovation Network (FIN) is a centralised bespoke environment that empowers UK Freeports to drive their innovation programmes, leading to commercialisation, helping create new products & services to support the long-term objective of economic self-sufficiency.